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Genes are just buffs, regardless of how little sense it makes.

Genes that change a part of the body don't actually change a part of that body. (new body parts should be added or existing body parts changed from genes)

Buffs tied to a body part don't go away when you loose that part of the body. (got your hand shot off? the long-fingers buff was tied to that new/changed body part, so now you lose half of the bonus)


The implementation is just shoddy.

Wild man as they are are completely and utterly incapable of surviving. They usually lack the basic survival skills you'd expect (melee, animal and plants at least. How the hell did they survive this long with 0 plant skill to forage?) and their AI seems to be suicidal (starving, dying of heatstroke or hypothermia even when there are safe areas they can reach).
They really need some improvement.

Speaking of which, staying next to a fire (even when outside) should prevent freezing.

Ideology has Trees Desired (not even Nature Primacy meme). Cutting down trees to build stuff murders your moral. Practically permanent -20 mood, despite being sorrounded by trees. Planting new trees grants nothing. Worst precept to pick.

Nudist. Rages because he/she is wearing a necklace/slave collar or a hat and is thus "not naked".


Holy hell, does anyone even playtest this? How can anyone think this is OK?

After all this time, all these patches, Rimworld STILL doesn't have a proper launcher.

When any sensible game lets you adjust a mod list first and only THEN load them, Rimworld goes backwards and insist on loading the entire game and all mods before giving you an option to change the order or mod list.

Consider that depending on how many mods you have, the game may take 10-30 minutes to start. And if you're toubleshooting mods and thus have to change the list, that means a 20 minute wait time EVERY TIME you change even a single mod.
Utterly, completely unexcusable.

So many QoL things still not merged into the core. So many BS decisions that mods have to fix.

And I might also mention Ideology here - restrictive. Lumping too many things together. For example, I cannot make a transhumanist that ONLY want biological enhancements, but reject cybernetics, because there is no destinction between the two.

The HP of individual body parts could use boosting. That or the logic behind how organ/bodypart damage is calculated needs work.

I lost count of how many times a fist-fight results in torn off limbs and pulverized brains. WTF?
We're talking normal, non-agumented humans, specifically ordered to use just fists to calm down a beserking prisoner or bring down the last injured raider.

It's downright infuriating how EASY is to loose organs and limbs from even the most improbable sources.

ONLY HIGH-CALIBER weapons (as in sniper rifle, .50 caliber and above) and explosives should be able to actually destroy/shot-off a limb. A regular bullet won't blow off your arm or leg.
Blunt weapons should definitely NOT be able to tear off your limbs.
Cutting weapons should only be able to do so if you have no armor or low-quality armor.
I don't think people realize how durable armor is and hard it is to chop off a limb.

The raids and the mechanics behind them, as well as the world factions and luckluster, to say the least.

Post ideas here for how to improve raids and factions:
Here are some good ideas I ran into:

>why the fuck does the game make you build killboxes so desperately

Because the ai is very focused on killing your colonists and "ending your save file" instead of being reasonable bandits and raiders and raids are predictably random.

""""Raids""""" can instantly improve by changing how raiders work.

1) raiders should want different things, which they usually attempt to obtain by sounding threatening (could be a bluff)

example: raiders hear you have a stash of glitterworld meds and want it to cure their leader's wife's son, if you accept they will visit your colony peacefully to retrieve it. if not they will send a massive force of 60 men (while your colony wealth is still low) to claim it by force. they claim to have explosives and are fully armed.

with good rng: if you say no, they show up but only like 10 dudes armed with small guns
bad rng: they actually do come with 60 dudes armed to the teeth

2) raiders should offer quests as well, demanding quests in order to keep your colony safe (from them)

example: deliver silver (or whatever) to this nearby location and come alone, bringing another pawn will result in a shootout

3) raiders will use the relationship points better. -100 is basically big raids trying to end all of your lives, you have to actually really try to get them to this point though. this should come with a rework of the relationship point system


tl;dr: the game is shallow because tynan made the game shallow. this is why even tiny mods thrive extremely well

>1) raiders should want different things
This would be a huge improvement over current raider AI, where raiders are nihilist retards who just want to smash and burn everything for no apparent reason.
>2) raiders should offer quests as well, demanding quests in order to keep your colony safe (from them)
This is historically how raider-type cultures have operated. The Mongols, for example, gave their targets an option to become a tributary and give the Mongols what they wanted instead of just massacring all of them right off the bat. The Mongols wouldn't have been able to conquer so much land if they murdered all of their potential subjects like a bunch of retards.
>3) raiders will use the relationship points better. -100 is basically big raids trying to end all of your lives, you have to actually really try to get them to this point though. this should come with a rework of the relationship point system
You mean there should be a difference between -10 (mild dislike) and -100 (mortal enemies)? I don't get it. Those two things are the same.

to add, at +100 relationship with raiders, they will treat you better and trade instead of demand things from you, and invite you to raid with them as well, something probably unique to the currently permahostile raider faction.

but yeah the relationship system in rimworld is so unfinished and simple and not a single mod has been made around that. it could be a very nice thing, managing neighboring relationships instead of just finally researching drop pods and showering them with gifts to maintain +100

Aside from that: faction towns/bases having a few variables that track their development (population, defenses, wealth) and that also determine their actions (they might act differently depending on their population/defenses. You defeating a raid reduces the pop of the town that sent it, and it recovers over time, etc..)

I just spent an eternity trying to figure out WTF is wrong with my mod list.
I get a whole bunch on Need TM_Travel error on pawns during world generation, and the map fails with error on loading afterwards.

anyone have any idea what Need TM_Travel even IS?

As in, will we finally get the launcher and ability to sort a mod list BEFORE the game decides to load everything?

It's a utterly horrible design decision.

Rimworld is called a Colony Sim, but a simulator requires actual simulation (even if simplified) and common sense rules. No wonder Ty has lately refered to it as a Story Generator, because that's a much, MUCH lower bar.
There's so many thing that are wrong and have never been addressed. It physically pains me to see just how much better this game could be with a just a little work. There's nothing sadder to me than wasted potential.
I honestly don't know if Tynan has grown just lazy, or perhaps being sorounded by yes-men that fellate him on every turn has boosted his ego, but he went from a developer I respected to a cautionary tale. He is more interested in whacky stories than good gameplay.
He will try to force anyone to play his way, he will try to force outcomes that make no sense and he will actively try to make you miserable by implementing mechanics that make no logical sense whatsoever - they are only there to ramp up the difficulty and create drama. Drama and lolssorandom = whacky stories = funny posts/videos = fame.


Let's list a few examples, shall we?

- Biocoded Weapons so you can't use them (because you cannot be rewarded for surviving a raid with weapons, even though they are mostly broken down shit quality - even that is too much). No rewards, only misery. The opposite of good game design.

- Manhunter pack and you defeated it? Oh no, now you have plenty of food. Can't have that! How about a magic desease that instantly rots all meat? There's no way the food abdundance could have been handled in a more neunaced, natural way - like let's say, making larger freezer harder and slower to obtain, making meat rot faster in general, requring you to focus on butchering right away. Nope, can't have that. Or simply removing manhunting events, or restricting them to early game.

- metal burns. He never fixed that because he thinks that loosing your metal stores in a fire is a good thing. A literal 5 second fix, but Ty has been too lazy to do it for years.

- catastrophic surgery failures. Operate on a leg, end up cutting someones eye out. Unpredictable, as it defies common sense, and also forced drama/loss. How can anyone defend this is beyond me.

- infestations and mountain bases. Instead of making digging trough solid stone REALLY slow and/or add possiblity of cave-ins/earthquakes (thus requireing solid walls and supports), he adds infestations. Or requireing pickaxes to dig. Either of it means that mountain bases are far slower to get up and makes it so it's a slow transition form outside to inside.

- Lack of colonists presonality. Soulless, without any real personalities to speak off. Nothing to differentiate their behavioral patterns. Psychology went way too deep, but have at lest some basic system in place.

- "Incapable of" mechanic. It's not enough that some colonists might hate doing some type of work and will recieve ever increasing mood penalties the longer they are assigned to a specific job - a great system from a great mod - no, that's not annoying enough and it's too realistic. What is required is a magical force field that prevents paws from doing some work, even if their lives and the lives of everyone they hold dear depends on it. But that's good design, because "muh drama", right Ty?

- mental breaks that happen at the most retarded times. Ate without table is enough to cause one to abandon their wife and kids to burn to death, can't go putting out the fire now, I'm off to food binge in the burning kitchen!

- raids are RNG based. Nothing else factors in. Distance? Terrain? How many nearby enemies the faction has? When has it launched the last raid against you? How did it go? Factions can pour infinite manpower and resources and attack without any thought. The raiders teleport to the map, no chance of interception or detection. 0 simulation for a supposed Sim game.

- Tied to that, other settlements/factions that are static and lifeless. They do not interact or wage war with each other or grow or fall. Again, something that is simple to add, all it takes is a few variables to track settlement population, wealth and defenses and some basic logic to govern behavior.

- defenses are garbage. He has been nerfing all turrets and defensive structures to the point of uselesness. The very reason people build killboxes is because a normal, realistic defense has been rendered unfeasable by his design. And then to get rid of killboxing, he added mechanoid clusters. "Fixing" a problem he created with an even worse problem.

- Granite or steel walls can be broken trough WITH BARE FISTS. How about making walls practically immune to certain weapons, make sapping and proper equipment actually matter.

- hamfisted population mechanics. Instead of players setting their own limits based on hardware/wants, the game will try to brute force it. Over the fixed magical number of people? Every attacker drops dead, no capturing for you. Tasers, bolas, blunt weapons, fists. Doesn't matter. They will DIE because Ty doesn't want you to have more

- resource costs and gains are all over the place. Why does dissasmbling a giant robot tank give me less resources than is needed for a club?

- enemies (and pyromaniacs) can set fire to everything without any tools. You can't.

- stack sizes. Default ones often make no sense. You often need massive freezers because you can apparently only store a few potatoes in a 2x2 meter space. But at least this one is easily fixed.

- a permanent hidden negative mood modifier for higher difficulties. Apex of bad difficulty design.

- Solar flares kill all of electronics. But only yours. Your enemies are fine.

- cut grass yields nothing (why can't I feed my cows with it?)

Aside from those?
Clear gaps in tech progression, holes in the tech tree. Early game techs missing, the massive gap between caravan and spaceship. No zeppelins, helicopters, trucks, boats. When asked why, when mods already did those things - Ty answeres because something being in the core requries a level of QUALITY and testing.
And his half-baked expansion that no one asked for, that contains a few things that other mods did FAR better (for example, hospitality is a million times better system than what he made, Rimword of Magic has better and more balanced powers, etc..), ends up being a buggy mess requireing a new patch every day. Mechanoid swarms balance? Bio-coded muskets? Crashes? Where's that quality control now, Ty? One and half year in the making for an expansion that shat it's bed on arrival.
Why are supposedly complex changes jurry-rigged by some drunk slav more stable, better balanced and less buggy than your own additions? Anything a modder can do you should be able to do better, faster and cleaner, you wrote the code, you have the source for the love of God! So I don't buy that excuse. Just say you don't want to do it, I'd respect you more.

And lately he's been pushing for modders to make the DLC a requirement. Scummiest move of all.
I used to like him, but the more I saw of his actions and way of thinking, the more disgusted I became. I don't recall last time my opinnion on someone tanked so hard.

P.S. - in case the whole "if it's so bad, more people would complain here" brigade show up:
By Steams own data, most people that buy a game either only play for a few hours tops, or never start it to begin with. Lord knows a lot of people have a backlog of bought games that they never got around to installing. Very few people ever finish a game. Of those that do, only a fraction will come to this forum, an only a fraction of those will feel strongly enough or bother to speak up. And this forum is very defensive of RW and Tynan, so even less incetive to speak up. Not a single person I know in RL or on-line that plays RW plays it without a bunch of fixes mods. You might want to keep those in mind.

Like
FAT pawns being slower and less healthy
THIN being agile and fast
HULK being strong, hitting harder in melee and able to carry more

Stuff like that.

It seems like a simple enough thing to implement

Is that it doesn't really make sense, hence why killboxes are necessary.

Pawns can destroy granite walls with bare fists or handguns (though the Ai rarely does that).
Mountains can be mined with bare hands.
Defensive turrets are useless garbage.
You have no proper defensive walls/bunkers/embrasures.
The enemy has no proper tools and attack strategies.

The way things currently work is the root of all the problems.

Now imagine if walls (and armor) acted like they should - impervious to fists and most melee weapons. You'd have sappers in every raid. Proper siege weapons and equipment. Raid AI that isn't braindead (no bee-lining for the trapped door, use of smoke, suppressive fire, making their own entrances, etc..).

Raiders may come with combat shields, RPG's, even APCs or tanks (that would be invulnerable to small arms fire), requireing specialized weaponry to deal with. The upside is that you can get away with smaller raids being a much bigger threat.
The downside is that you're (almost) boned without proper defenses and equipment. Things like APC's carry troops to your base, so they by themselves wouldn't be a threat.
The AI should also be smart enough so that you cannot simply down a pawn with sapping/anti-armor equipment and call it a day - other raiders should pick up the critical gear.

How to fix it without it being stupid and gimmicky:

- tool requirements - you can't dig solid stone with bare hands. You need to make a pickaxe to mine. Slows down the entire mining process and limits hte amount of pawns that can dig based on equipment. Heck, you can apply it to cutting down trees - make an axe requirement. A stone chunk and some wood and you have a stone axe. (but how can you get wood if you can't cut trees without axe? Simple, you can gather wood without axes by breaking branches. That would yield only a tiny amount of wood, take a long time, the tree would stay and it's growing would be re-set)

- slow down mining. Simple. Mining should take time even with good tools. Because it's stone.

- have raiders attack farming plots and reduce farming yield, requiring bigger farms that would have to be on the outside, making it harder to turtle and protect. Also, makes sense. A tiny farm isn't going to feed an entire colony so easily. Might also require some nutritional value balancing.

- earthquakes (artillery bombardments too) that can cause cave-ins. Support pillars and walls for strong, but flexible materials help.

- vehicles. Blimps and ariplanes/shuttles (can drop bombs). Trucks/apcs/tanks (can carry troposp to your walls or carry big weapons). Usable by the player AND enemies. Old-fashioned siege engines, like a giant drill (goes trough walls like butter). SOME of these would be impervious to small arms fire, requireing tank mines, AA guns, heavy guns and interception.

- combine with Preemtive Strike Stuff. More reason for the player to leave the colony and the safety of the walls. To thin/weaken a raid before it reaches the base.

- actual AI settlement simulation (simplifed). Population (number of paws, decreases with losses. Sending a raid also decreases it), defense (defensive fortifications/turrets), wealth (affects how attractive it is for other factions to attack, how quick the population grows) - these 3 variables would be enough.

- all the basic QoL additions and fixes (Pawns are Capable, metal doesn't burn, vein miners/designators, death rattle, improved surgery, medic bags)

I can think of a lot more things.

I hear a lot of complains. Some with merit, others without.
But it feels like this update and DLC messed so many mods and playtroughs, without actually adding anything of actual worth (the perormance improvements being the only thing of interest).

People complained that the game, despite is age, is never on sale or discount, and that this DLC is overpriced. I feel they are somewhat right.

People complained that the game is unfinished, and frankly..it kinda feels like it. There are so many holes in the game that I cannot imagine ever playing without 100+ mods, simply for all the QoL improvements and adding missing content. What is missing, you may ask?

The tech advancement seems to skip and jump all over the place. The early game lacks content. You go from tribal to industrial. So much more research could be added, more stages and research could be better gated (you much have X number of medieval tech researched before you can unlock industrial) Something like royalty would have been good for medieval content, instead we get psychic space emperors content that feels off.

I would have been 1000 times happier if Ty either copied or simply directly implemented content from some of the best mods.
You jump from pack animal caravans (which you cannot even ride) to starships. Nothing in between. No boats or coastal cities/trade. No trucks (which would be good on roads and flat plains, but terrible/incapable in swams, mountains, etc..), blimps/zeppelins, aircraft of any kind.
Interaction between factions is primitive and beyond bare-bones. Raids magically appear at your doorstep. Etc, etc..
And lets not forget the attrocious mod loading system, where you have to wait for the game to load all of the mods BEFORE you can actually set up mod load order.. instead of having mod selector/load order as the first thing to start


Mods/ideas that should be part of the core game (at least some parts/aspects of them):
Medieval
Giddy up
Boats
SMRT (whatever the mod name with shuttles is)
Any of the surgery improvement mods (default mechanics are trash)
CE (just the ranged combat aiming part)
Death rattle
Autopsy
Prison labor/Simple slavery
More faction interaction
Preemptive strike
Vein Miner (seriously, how is this NOT part of core???)
Duel weield/Simple Sidearms/Run and Gun
Hospitality
Psychology
Mending
Dubs Hygene
etc...

I could put up a long list. And I know people might accuse Ty of "stealing" ideas if he does that. First, ideas cannot be stolen or owned, not something so vauge as "let's add vehicles to the game"
Second, I don't give a crap. I just want a functional game that doesn't feel like half the content is missing.

But suppose you want something new mechanically.
How about gear prerequisites - like for example, a minigun either not being equippable or suffering massive penalties if a pawn doesn't have power armor (apparel with power armor tag, so that modded power armor would work easily).
More damage types? Freeze guns?
Pawn attributes (like a RPG, strength, agility, endurance, toughness, etc..) that interact with skills and are hard to change. You many have great knowledge of mining, but a weak body.

Anyway, long rant, bottom point is... I'm dissapointed that after this long, nothing of real value (to me and many others at least) has been added.

If I want to create a headdiff that boosts size and HP (let's call it genetic enhacement)

I would basically create a sickenss, with 1 stage, flag it as not bad and non-curable, and put increase baseBodySize and BaseHealthScale using the same synatax like one would use to boost manipulation, or conciounsess, or any other attribute  (irrc, that was using offset, so 2.0 for 200% increase), correct?


Here is the current file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Defs>

  <HediffDef>
    <defName>TM40_supremegenes</defName>
<hediffClass>HediffWithComps</hediffClass>
    <defaultLabelColor>(0.55, 0.05, 1)</defaultLabelColor>
    <label>supreme genes</label>
<!--     <lethalSeverity>40</lethalSeverity> -->
<tendable>false</tendable>
<makesSickThought>false</makesSickThought>
<isBad>false</isBad>
<comps>
    </comps>
    <stages>
  <li>
        <label>empowered</label>
<minSeverity>.001</minSeverity>
        <restFallFactor>0.5</restFallFactor>
<hungerRateFactor>0.5</hungerRateFactor>
<painOffset>-0.5</painOffset>
        <capMods>
          <li>
            <capacity>Moving</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
          <li>
            <capacity>Manipulation</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
          <li>
            <capacity>Consciousness</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
  <li>
            <capacity>Sight</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
  <li>
            <capacity>Talking</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
  <li>
            <capacity>Eating</capacity>
            <setMax>5.0</setMax>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>  
  <li>
            <capacity>BloodFiltration</capacity>
            <offset>4.0</offset>
          </li>
  <li>
            <capacity>BloodPumping</capacity>
            <offset>2.0</offset>
          </li>
        </capMods>
      </li>
    </stages>
  </HediffDef>
 
</Defs>



Basically, I also want to set body size to 1.25 and boost HP

Halp pls

Anyone know if it's possible to change that?

I'm looking at the buildings defs and I can't see where that would be defined. Is it hardcoded?

Seems like a value that gets RNG'ed at the start and then does not change.

As it stand now armor has a % damage reduction. It is simple, but unsatisfactory.
Some games use damage treshold (completely negate up to X damage). I recommend a combo.

Armor has a damage resistance (to damage type) and damage reduction (to damage type).
Any damage below the resistance value is completely negated - 0 damage.
Any damage above that is reduced by the %, with the remaining % taken from the armor.

So an armor with a 10 pierce damage resistance and 60% damage reduction:
- hit by a 5 damage shot - 0 damage to pawn, 1 damage to armor
- hit by a 30 damage shot - pawn takes 40% damage and armor takes 60%

Since armor has HP, it gets damaged with every hit - either only scratches or bigger damage. As armor condition worsens, so does it's protection. Both values take a 5% reduction for every 10% HP lost. So even an almost destroyed armor will still have 50% of it's original protection.

To add to this, ability to repair armor - time depends on HP to repair and material. Assuming 1 HP repaired every in-game second, a heavy power armor that has 1000HP might take a while to repair.

This is way more realistic system that gives armor more value, but also gives the ma mainteinance requirement, costing time and resources to keep in good condition.

How to make melee combat more attractive? How to balance combat better? Well, first we have to look at what makes melee combat undesirable:

1. Melee is risky. Closing distance is risky, fighting is risky due to injuries.
- proper shields and shield belts will make closing distance safer

- proper armor (add damage negation treshold to armor - any damage below X is negated) would make closing distances safer, and melee weapons more viable (as they do more damage than most ranged weapons). No more pistols killing a guy in power armor.

- increased HP of body parts and organs would make ALL combat better. Having a pistol shoot off an arm or a squirrel bite off a nose is just insane. Reduced chance of your colonist loosing limbs is melee makes melee more viable.

2. Guns are too easy to get and maintain.
- ammo. The need to conserve and produce ammo gives a cost to weapons. There should be a simple way to repair guns (a bit of steel and 1-2 components to repair a gun) to compensate.

Why is it so hard to sell some stuff?

I have so much stuff that I can never sell, because traders that can buy it are very rare.

It needs some sanity checks.


I had two of my colonists get married - the girl was 19.

Then immediately after that, a raid appeared with their 12-year old daughter.

Something as simple as checking the age and WHEN they became a couple before assigning children, would be nice.