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Do you have enough reputation to call friendlies? they would help at least to weaken the bugs, and could bring good weapons

First try on the "bitter" seed. Was lucky when i accepted a chased refugee, had a raid before the chasers appeared on the map, then they fought each other and i finished the wounded. Anyway, died day 26, mental state at -100°C...

But i had like 5 resource pods whereas in previous run had one in 1 year. That's a lot of RNG variability for something vital on sea ice.

The colder, the easier i would say. Whereas you can manage temperature, raiders will freeze to death.

With pods allowed and an ice sheet tile at 4 days, I included another condition then: don't leave the original map for your main colony, and the ship has to be built on the original map. A strong incentive is to generate the starting map at the size you like best (i did default 250*250), and then set the default map size at something small, 125*125, making it possible to settle new tiles, but harder to defend on the long term.

save based on your scenario: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6dSLBKi2lncX1JpTVMzaWctYTQ

Here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6dSLBKi2lncbW43OG1vMko2cFk

Starting at the pole, in winter, permanent cold snap and volcanic winter. Starting colonist as same traits as Engie, can shoot, build, research.

Standard size map.

I'm going to give it a try and may post a save here.

Edit: tried a run on an equatorial sea ice, had 1 cargo over the first year, ship chunks x10 (4 at start, then 3*2), 1 siege which is a decent amount of steel + steel slag chunks and weapons from raiders. so it seems doable, the main difficulty will still be surviving raids

Create a tale out of successful quests, destroyed bases/outposts

Quests offer uranium.

It's rarely proposed from traders as raw material but you can look for anything made out of uranium, weapons or furniture are a great sources of uranium once deconstructed/smelted

You can find the light level per latitude in the debug menu, here for 30°, 60° and 90° of latitude:

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Sun visibility percents for latitude 30, for each hour of each day of the year
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Day/hr0h    2h    4h    6h    8h    10h   12h   14h   16h   18h   20h   22h   
0     0.000 0.000 0.000 0.532 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.532 0.000 0.000
5     0.000 0.000 0.000 0.549 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.549 0.000 0.000
10    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.596 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.596 0.000 0.000
15    0.000 0.000 0.046 0.660 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.660 0.046 0.000
20    0.000 0.000 0.127 0.722 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.722 0.127 0.000
25    0.000 0.000 0.188 0.765 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.765 0.188 0.000
30    0.000 0.000 0.210 0.781 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.781 0.210 0.000
35    0.000 0.000 0.188 0.765 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.765 0.188 0.000
40    0.000 0.000 0.127 0.722 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.722 0.127 0.000
45    0.000 0.000 0.046 0.660 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.660 0.046 0.000
50    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.596 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.596 0.000 0.000
55    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.549 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.549 0.000 0.000


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Sun visibility percents for latitude 60, for each hour of each day of the year
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Day/hr0h    2h    4h    6h    8h    10h   12h   14h   16h   18h   20h   22h   
0     0.000 0.000 0.000 0.229 0.565 0.794 0.873 0.794 0.565 0.229 0.000 0.000
5     0.000 0.000 0.000 0.260 0.596 0.823 0.902 0.823 0.596 0.260 0.000 0.000
10    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.347 0.679 0.902 0.980 0.902 0.679 0.347 0.000 0.000
15    0.000 0.000 0.113 0.465 0.788 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.788 0.465 0.113 0.000
20    0.000 0.000 0.239 0.580 0.891 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.891 0.580 0.239 0.000
25    0.000 0.070 0.330 0.660 0.960 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.960 0.660 0.330 0.070
30    0.008 0.106 0.362 0.688 0.984 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.984 0.688 0.362 0.106
35    0.000 0.070 0.330 0.660 0.960 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.960 0.660 0.330 0.070
40    0.000 0.000 0.239 0.580 0.891 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.891 0.580 0.239 0.000
45    0.000 0.000 0.113 0.465 0.788 1.000 1.000 1.000 0.788 0.465 0.113 0.000
50    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.347 0.679 0.902 0.980 0.902 0.679 0.347 0.000 0.000
55    0.000 0.000 0.000 0.260 0.596 0.823 0.902 0.823 0.596 0.260 0.000 0.000


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Sun visibility percents for latitude 90, for each hour of each day of the year
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Day/hr0h    2h    4h    6h    8h    10h   12h   14h   16h   18h   20h   22h   
0     0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191 0.191
5     0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228
10    0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328
15    0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465
20    0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597
25    0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689
30    0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721 0.721
35    0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689 0.689
40    0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597 0.597
45    0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465 0.465
50    0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328 0.328
55    0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228 0.228


I've seen something similar in A16. It was a prisoner i abandoned while i was on the road, i found her in restraint in the next base: http://imgur.com/a/8Nkk1

Try to attack the sappers while they are attacking your walls. Raids with sappers are generally easier if you're used to directly attack raiders in general. Raiders are more passive when they hang around their sappers, you can shoot at them and they'll take more time to take cover and shoot back.

Mood buff: family member buried in sarcophagus

Colonists get a mood penalty after a non colonist family member dies, maybe we could have an option for family members in a sarcophagus and get a mood buff out of it.

You can survive crashlanded or rich explorer scenarios without killboxes/ traps/ turrets. It requires more manpower and micro.

On my tribal colony deadfall traps helped surviving the first year, you can certainely do it without traps but then it's a festival of doordancing and heavy micro.

But traps are OP, so i usually set the limit to 1 or 2 traps per colonist. it also help to secure your colony while you send caravans on the road.

If anything i'd like deep drill to drill chemfuel only.

I thought it was intentional. Everyone complained surgery could be summed up to glitt meds in A16, and with glitt meds buffed to 200% in A17 could make it worse. Now it depends on your surgeon skills and room stats, so a healthy level 8-9 doctor in a sterile room should succeed.

What's confusing is the surgery requires medicine, it makes sense irl to decrease the infection chance, not to impact the surgery success chance.

I don't think the wooden floor would do much. The temperature would not rise since they destroy doors/ walls on their way, and they already deal realtively easily with burning floors (like when they ignite your crops). You can certainely use them in a killzone, but i doubt they would be very efficient.

I've been using the incendiary traps for bugs. 300+ days in my A17 game, infestations have been among the most dangerous threats when i tried to kite them. So I decided i would deal with them asap, with fire: http://imgur.com/rOljSeP