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Here's what the barbwire looks like for the time being:

It's about sleep deprivation and starvation (...)

Or it's simply about obedience:

YOU DON'T MOVE UNTIL I SAY SO !!!

Well, it's kind of related, I'd say

When you say you couldent reproduce the templating system of wikia to mediawiki, is this only affecting the migration of existing content? or is maintaining mediawiki completely different?

It affects the migration since the migrated pages make use of templates.
And it affects the existing (or "non-migrated" content) because I couldn't figure out how to achieve the same result as templates without actually using them.

But I didn't try too much.

My only interactions with YouTube are passive

A possibility would also be to have a reminder in the top-right of the screen that says "You have colonist(s) drafted".
The message would stay there as long as it's still valid.
We could also have alerts (the messages) every so often reminding us of the drafting status.

It's nowhere near final.
The idea is to find a wiki that is easy to work with and maintain, just like Wikia, but without the crazy ads.

My beefs with MediaWiki is that I couldn't reproduce or integrate the template system of Wikia (which is forked off MediaWiki).
And then there's DokuWiki, which I think is crap, in regard to the few wikis that are using it that I checked.

And Tynan doesn't like Wikia because of all the ads (as we can't expect every single visitor to use AdBlock and such).

Hypolite and I are (mostly) taking care of the maintenance, but it's indeed the theming that is a huge problem (and having proper categorize, and some kind of way to have all the pages accessible, and... everything).

Regarding the wiki on ludeon.com, Tynan has replaced the MediaWiki by DoKuWiki, while I would have preferred to keep both for proper comparison.
I actually find DokuWiki worse and more limited than MediaWiki, but if you feel like having a go at it, please do (you might then want to create an account there and check with Tynan to get admin).

A patrol zone command would be a worthwhile addition, provided the few caveats mentionned earlier are taken care of.

About the drafting itself, I suspect the problem is when you send your soldier(s) away from your colony, and just forget about them because they are not in sight anymore (especially true the more colonists you have).

I can't view videos as I'm at my office, but since this thread is not in the off-topic subforum, I'm assuming it's not a rhetorical question...

So, would this have anything to do with this ?

We can safely aim for 100K+, since there's so many youtubers spreading the word...

True, because drafting/controlling is the higher priority.
I would then take it that if we can define patrol zones, they might behave the same way: what would be the point of setting a patrol zone, which is supposed to be important to defend/scout/whatever if the colonist(s) affected there just leave to get a nap ?

It may require some way to get around this without the patroller going crazy (or dead).

Ditch the wondering, enjoy the maths !

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Sure, just like I thought I said the sole purpose of drafting, as of now, is to control the colonists.

Now, what could be done (besides redesigning the whole drafting system) that would go well along what you're saying, is to have a way to define "patrol zones", just like there is a "home zone" now.
There would be differences, of course, like the colonists won't do any cleaning or maintenance there.

What do you think ?

On the subject of windowed resolutions - Please, please for the love of space Ganesha, include windowed fullscreen. So much easier not having to wait for renders when you tab back and forth.

But... why would you want to tab away from the game ?!

More seriously: titlebarless windowed resolutions !

[The raiders currently flee if they take a certain % of losses; I want them to be a bit less lethal in general so I may reduce this and have them flee in a wider variety of circumstances. Or just, say, kidnap one colonist and leave. The always-lethal-genocidal attacks have a way of cutting stories short.]

Also had a question about the games psychology. Ive noticed that raiders flee occasionally is their morale calculated as a group? Or is it an individual thing?

Using the Search function with "raiders" and "flee" gave me a few answers, among which:

http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=12.msg64#msg64
"The raiders currently flee if they take a certain % of losses; I want them to be a bit less lethal in general so I may reduce this and have them flee in a wider variety of circumstances. Or just, say, kidnap one colonist and leave. The always-lethal-genocidal attacks have a way of cutting stories short."