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^^ Would like to have a word with you about things that don't react well to bullets.

Man..... I remember when concrete came in bags at least twice they size they are now, and you gave anyone that only carried one from the ute shit.

Yeah, I knew those guys when I was young too. They're all hooked on pain pills now.

Isn't 40 pound only like the weight of those little concrete bags? Like... 20kg?

Like 18kg. Or a little heavier than a bulk container of cat litter (35-42 pounds depending on the brand.)

It's also just below the 53 pound mark that is considered the normal maximum weight for office workers in the US (a case of 5,000 sheets of printer paper weighs that much.)

It's a manageable enough weight, it's not like I'd brag about bench pressing it. (hah!) But realistically, people will generally grab a cart or something to avoid lifting/carrying something that heavy, more than a few dozen yards if they can avoid it. At least, unless they have some kind of carrying gear (backpack, etc.) that distributes the weight over their bodies.

Many airlines have weight limits for carry-on luggage that is <20 pounds, and those have built in wheels and pull handles.

Nah, this makes sense. The weight isn't the issue. Think deer hunting.

A fit person can fireman-carry a dead deer, etc. It's not easy, and it's one reason a lot of people bone or gut at the first opportunity. But it's doable.

But, if you cut that deer up into a bunch of cuts of meat, bones, skin, antlers, etc., you're not going to be able to carry all the pieces - you don't have enough / large enough hands to get a solid grip on that many things.

Also: so you take your kill to the butcher, and they hand you a couple boxes full of venison, which you probably carry out to the car (well, okay, pickup truck) one at a time, because carrying a 40 pound box in front of you with your arms, is actually a bit more difficult than carrying a 130 pound deer over your shoulders, because you're using different muscle groups.

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I grow and sell marijuana.

Im all for scars. But its damn groundbreaking not having technology to even attempt a fix at fingers, ears and nose, but enough for a fucking heart surgery.

Surgeries which leave a scar with a lessened disfigured penalty, or leave a pawn not with a destroyed toe, but with nerve damage.

These add up to the game and make it so injuries can be permanent, but medicine cab mitigate it. Obviously, with the threat of dying on the surgery table.

Personally I think the disfigured penalty is weird/bad. Maybe there needs to be a "platonic" social standing score as opposed to one for romance.

I know plenty of people IRL who have lost bits of fingers, facial scars here and there, etc. Mostly they're cool people and I don't dislike them as friends and coworkers.

Now, I'm also a shallow SOB who would be hesitant to hook up with a woman who had no face, but I wouldn't randomly start a fistfight with her either.

Setting up seperate zones for firefighting and cleaning would be nice (that is differentiating them from the 'home area'), since very often I find myself in a situation where I want an area to be under the 'home area' because of fires, but at the same time I dont need it cleaned.

Easy. Once you have 7-8 pawns, pick one to be your dedicated housekeeper, and set their allowed area to a smaller area than your home area.

Alphabeavers must die.

The AI cores from psychic ships aren't aliens - they're humanity!

Told you it was better to crash on a Rimworld than make it to a Glitterworld.

Being female is as pointless as being male in most games these days.
At least with pregnancy, having a gender at all actually has a sense of agency.
And it's very conducive to gripping stories when a baby dies to miscarriage, because the mother got shot.
Or who knows, even get's birthed because of a battle wound.  Think Conan.. and actually call that baby Conan. 

Isn't stories what Rimworld is all about?

At no point in any frontier civilization were pregnant women getting shot every 2-3 days.

If you have two colonies is their wealth tied together?--so raids at the same strength occur to both. Also, can you be raided at the same time at both colonies?

Raid strength is colony-specific. I think I've seen simultaneous raids, but they weren't attacking at the exact same time, so it was easy enough to deal with. Probably just the RNG Gods.

-It should be possible to amputate limbs without medical reason (to immobilize prisoners for example)

This is already implemented in the base game. You are capable of amputating perfectly healthy limbs, for any reason you like.

Sure, but it's kind of a clumsy process - you have to replace it with a prosthetic, and THEN you remove the prosthetic part. I want a one-step "cut off his feet" option.

Also strange that I can harvest eyeballs and organs, but not limbs - but I can buy limbs from trade ships... where do they get those?

Then again, it would probably be too "cheap" if I could just cut off a guys leg, wait until he's recruited, then reattach the leg with no penalty.

A closed vent would still represent a not-very-good insulator. I could see a "closed" vent being, say, 0.1x effective. But not suddenly the same as a block of marble.

Not sure where to go from here. Maybe have Anna go nuts and kill off the other colonists. Except for Vlad of course.