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ok,

this is now basically in for K9:

Looks nice. Don't forget to use HIS (all caps) to have the game substitute "her" as appropriate. NAME could be used in place of "This dog" to make it automatically read as "Buster is quite well-tempered..."

HE also prints "he" or "she" by pawn gender, and HECAP capitalizes it if you're starting a sentence. Or writing a backstory for a deity.

Edit: "breed" is the word you're looking for.

Tynan just wants to get the Steam Key interface working. He's burnt out on Rimworld itself at the moment which is why he's been fixing up the website and learning PHP instead. The Stream release is not actually imminent.

Don't do that! It glitches the game in a10 and makes ALL events stop!

Yeah, it might be possible to save him with a mod, if it doesn't require a new colony to work. In vanilla he's brain dead.

Wouldn't be hard at all. I might do that over the weekend if SCa11 doesn't get released.

She's a joywirer. "No reason" indeed!

I think crop growth rates were slowed a bit in general. The easier difficulty settings do give you bonus yield at harvest though.

I think it got toned down to make you rely on yourself more, while still having occasional access to special items.

Fire is great, but without a ready source, such as the Incendiary Launcher, they are hard to start.

The issue was that ONLY the tribe was attacking, not the pirates, so no guns or plasteel weapons were dropping.

I still find the bows much better than nothing and would recommend that all engagements be made at range in the early game.

Thank you for the code snippets. Is that in one of the included source files?

Imagine all backstories as being in a big pot. When a pawn spawns, it gets a random backstory from the pot, says "this is what I am" then puts the backstory back in the pot. But with a bio, it takes the backstory out of the pot, says "this is mine and no others shall have it" and keeps it for itself. This let's the game have unique 'one time' characters that cancan appear once and only once per colony. For example, if you ever get Tynan as a colonist in your colony, he will always have the two exact same backstories. And if he dies, you will never see another pawn named Tynan with those backstories in that savegame; he is a unique character. I am not too sure how Prepare Carefully interacts with this system though. All backstories have a field called "shuffleable", which when true allows them to be randomly assigned to a colonist. I don't know if the prepare carefully menu takes this in to consideration when building the list of backstories to choose from. The unique characters can appear randomly in game, but they will always be the same and only appear once per colony

Prepare Carefully allows all backstories to be selected. You can tell the ones that belong to backers because they use NAME and HE/HIS erratically or not at all and are generally much more character specific in their wording.

I'll have to experiment.

Raiders give up and go home if they run out of food.

Took almost a half hour for the email to arrive, but everything looks good.

http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=11741.0

Hit F5 until it says Alpha 11.