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Did you know 37% of all bought games on steam didn't even get played or downloaded ?

I have ~200 games in my library but I only play about a dozen. Most of them were bought for the price of a candybar or a Happy Meal.

I am willing to bet this is more common than you think irl

Sounds like life in a Rimworld colony honestly. Yous takes what yous can gets.

Old colonists are ok, but you need to check that health tab. Bad back and frail are probably the absolute worst traits to have on a starting colonists. Cataracts can be managed, as long as you don't use them to shoot. I play with a bionics mod that provides a fix for bad back so old colonists are ultimately a long-term investment for me.

Do colonists ever die of old age? I know they randomly get a birthday event that impacts their health.

Oh damn, that look expensive!
I did not know the "beauty detector" was not reflecting the objects in the stock pile. May be I can stock gold or silver in the room?

Without opening the game, I think any random stuff lying around detracts from beauty. Even an uninstalled legendary statue, as an example. Try emptying the room and see what happens?

I think a lot of people in the west identify as hetero for largely cultural and historic reasons, or for reasons of simplicity; not simply because the majority are 100% hetero.

Citation needed, or else that's just your opinion.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/08/16/half-young-not-heterosexual/
Article from August 2015 about results from a Kinsey-scaled gender orientation survey taken in Britain. Younger people are more likely to identify as non-exclusively hetero; sign of the times or just people being more honest?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-percent-of-the-population-is-gay-more-than-you-think-5012467/?no-ist
2013 Smithsonian article explaining the result of bias in surveys of sexual orientation. This is primarily why I believe hetero is the 'majority' in the west. Although in America there is a cultural 'tidal shift' towards accepting gays, there is still stigma attached to (particularly) male-male intimacy. I believe a lot of people experiment when they're younger, then drift into hetero relationships because of reasons of convenience, or to start a biological family, or perhaps simply as a disguise.

Anecdotally, to go into a little more detail, I've been intimate with men and I still identify as straight, mostly for reasons of convenience, nothing more.

I find giving them large rooms and spending a lot of time with fancy flooring is not worth the benefits, beauty-wise. If you want them to have a beautiful bedroom, you need to pack it with beautiful junk, such as a royal bed, comfy chair, statues; all of the highest quality and made of appropriate materials to get the beauty rating as high as possible. Also try to keep any and all loose items out of the room. Although you can't see it in your screenshot, I am about 99% sure things like stacks of lumber and clothing on the floor subtract from beauty/pleasantness.

The only limit there should be on freedom is to ensure one person's freedom doesn't infringe another person's.

Came here to post this. Anything else is statism.

Overwhelming majority of population is straight

Says who

i think that is because its default thinking.

I think a lot of people in the west identify as hetero for largely cultural and historic reasons, or for reasons of simplicity; not simply because the majority are 100% hetero. I identify as straight, but it's not like I'm blind to male beauty. Without going into detail, I can assure you my 'public' orientation is a convenient fiction to avoid a bunch of men hitting on me.

I thought small animals constant nuzzling was a drain to work efficiency since it pauses work and resets certain pawn jobs (iirc). But perhaps the mood buff is enough to counter it.

Bed quality is super important. Any bed is fine to start with but I periodically have my best constructor build new beds and cycle out lower-quality ones. AFAIK in A13 wood beds provide more beauty, but the comfort is the same. A steel bed is stronger, of course, and less flammable.

Fastest way: set manual priority of firefighting to one; draft then undraft everyone to reset what they're doing. Everyone will start fighting fires right away.

I assign them all to the pacificist doctor until after the fight is over. She hangs back and has a nap while everyone else shoots.

EDIT: I think animal intelligence needs a little work. Obedience is really just "follow me when drafted". The impulse to follow a colonist when drafted should stem from another skill. Clicking dogs to click a 'heel' button sounds like painful micromanagement.

You don't have to give them a room that size. It's just what they would find ideal, as their one and only private place which is actually theirs on that god-forsaken Rimworld. But they will make do with a 1x2 if they must. The most important thing for morale is 4 walls and a ceiling.

A colonist uses a room for two things right now: sleeping and joy. When they are asleep their mood doesn't budge, so having a fancy bedroom will do nothing there. And most of my colonists prefer to socialize during down time.

I was playing in arid shrubland in the summer (90f) when a heat wave hit (124f) The next thing I noticed was that there wasn't a single wild animal left on the map. The elephants, muffalos, and rhinos just left

They do this. Animals migrate with the seasons, and sometimes a heat or cold wave at the right time can trigger them to leave or arrive early. Depending on the map type and temperature you might not have any animals at all during winter (all I get are hungry grizzlies).

If they don't come back by next spring, it's probably a bug.

Maybe it would help if the game had more artistic goals available... yes, you can build statues... I wonder if we need something more in this direction.  Something to focus on building once all your colonists are equipped with power armor and charge rifles.

DF-style decorating/engraving of furniture objects would be nice. Gives your artists a break from the statue sweatshop.

I'd also like to a see an epic-style colossal statue that takes up several tiles, and is built on-site (like a construction job, but with Art skill). My name is Ozymandias...