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Bionic spines! Horrendously expensive--we're talking 2-10 AI cores here--but give +20 to all the wonderful things having a bad back penalizes and replaces Bad Back and Frail.

Also, possibly Bionic Body--for someone too near-death to fix or scarred up. (Would have Life Support in the head, along with Brain. Only way to permakill someone with a Bionic Body would be to take down one of those.)

Ship Parts and those cryosleep chambers qualify, IMO.

It would still require manual changes. The player would have to go and forbid the area with enemies in it.

Which...Doesn't really help me build MANY things at once. Unless I feel like pointing them at every one, since time is kind of the essence sometimes.

Problem. No building while drafting.

So, basically, you don't want to have to micromanage your guys into building defenses when a raid is coming from a unexpected place. And there's no "Needs" priority... So make it so we can ORDER them to stop eating and sleeping for the next few hours!

Basically, when raiders are preparing to attack or pirates are sieging my base, it'd be nice to have a zone that says "Avoid this area".

I had to load a save because my hunter decided it was a good idea to hunt a muffalo near some preparing, shielded pirates.

Things like pitfalls(require no resources, like graves, inflict some damage and delay enemies), pitfalls w/spikes(Require wood or steel and have a 75% chance of skewering someone), and so on.

I mean, come on, it would make it a lot easier to fight tribesfolk!

When a enemy kidnaps your colonist, make it so if you have coms they'll demand things from you.

Tribespeople would demand resources, Pirates valuable metals, and Outlanders would probably demand that you 'trade' them a certain value of goods, including silver.

Edit:Heck, it wouldn't even be hard, now that I think of it. Just a trade window with your kidnapped characters and what they're willing to take.