Climate

[Pontifex Mechanicus]

I'd like to see the climate in terms of average temperatures and growing seasons reworked a bit. In general, I don't think temperature fluctuations in northern regions are extreme enough. For colder arboreal or warmer boreal biomes, you should be shooting for temperature averages between -30 to 10 F or so in the winter, and 70 to 90 F or so in the summer, with a growing season lasting till about October or so. If you find yourself a biome with an October growing season in Rimworld, you're living somewhere where the temperature will never dip below freezing in the winter time, and places with the relatively tame winter temperatures around 10 F or so will be lucky to be able to grow crops in August.

Now, this being an alien world and all that, it's weather patterns may well mean that this is just how weather is on this world, but I still think it would be nice if it was at least possible to get some other more extreme temperature ranges in place. Perhaps every newly generated world could be different in that regard. In any case, having a colony where you have to worry about freezing in the winter and getting heatstroke in the summer would be rather interesting, compared to current colonies where you can just put on a parka and wear it all year long and never break a sweat.

I'd also like to see wastelands be able to appear in places where it snows. The Badlands of South Dakota are very much what you'd call a wasteland biome by Rimworld standards, and it sure isn't 75 to 90 there all year.