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So a group of friendlies is visiting, walking around in my bunker, eating my food... you know the drill.

And then another group of friendlies visits, and starts to walk around, eating my food...

Then they both come down the same corridor from different directions, reach a corner at the same time and come face to face. Turns out they weren't friendly to each other.

So for a couple of minutes it's my colonists going

"Guys... do you mind? We're trying to work here..."

"Guys... I know you don't like each other and all but this is OUR bunker and..."

"Guys?"

So yeah, typical pirate raid, about 20-30 of them for each of my colonists. Until two dozen pirates decide to cluster as close to two of my mortars as they can and then shoot them with everything they had.

And then the pirates had a slightly lower numerical advantage.

Power lines don't automatically disappear when you sell them though, or that could be a potential solution.

In real life I would solve a situation like that with fire sectioning, but there aren't that many tools for that (yet).

If you lay down concrete it will act as a fire break preventing the fire from spreading.

That doesn't stop it from spreading along powerlines though. And powerlines seem to burst into flames as soon as there's the tiniest little spark within two or three squares, meaning that if there's a fire near a powerline, you can kiss your generators and solar plants goodbye within minutes.

Have ceiling lights been suggested yet? I want those things out of the way, they're using up floorspace I need.

As long as we're building roofs ourselves, let's have different materials. We have wood, log, stone and metal walls, so we could start with those for roofs as well.

Oh, and different thickness of the roofs would be lovely. Something that will stand up to mortar fire, please.

While we're at it, solar panels on the roof was a capital idea. Love it. Maybe skylights to let in some light and air?

Ah, I wasn't aware they fight fires when drafted. I'll just do that for now. Thanks!

The situation with firefighting is just a disaster right now. A fire will break out, a colonist will be sent out there to stomp it out. While he's underway the fire will spread, but once he's stomped out the fire in the square he reserved, he won't move on to the others, because they will all have been reserved by other colonists, spread out all over the map... and once they have reached their fires they will of course have spread even more into areas that they completely ignore, allowing the fire to continue spreading even further.

The fastest and most economical way to fight fires at the moment seems to be to wait until it's consumed everything combustible and burns itself out, and then to rebuild.

There just has to be a better way to do this...