Life on the Rim

[nickyb]

Man this game is awesome.  Ok well it is extremely frustrating and in someways complex in seemingly crazy ways and simplistic in others.  But not to worry I love the game for the potential.  The potential of me actually having a colony survive longer than the 3rd pirate attack on Kassandra Classic.

So one suggestion I would love to have is the ability to pull the alarm switch.  When raiders are coming pull that sucker and everyone not selected as militia gets indoors.

Other than that I would like to be able to send people to talk to people passing by to try and recruit them, same idea with people that crash land.

Other than that I swear the game knows I figured out I want something that has a funnel to try some of the things I have read here.  Ever level I have started (and I started some just testing it out) have been almost smooth walled.  Anyone else encounter this?




NickyB

[air805ronin]

Other than that I would like to be able to send people to talk to people passing by to try and recruit them, same idea with people that crash land.

NickyB

If you draft a colonist you can arrest passerbys/crash landed people.  Really you just put them in a room and ask them every day to join your colony.  Unless you set the game to have them beaten or executed.

[Ashigaru]

As ronin said above, make sure you switch someone to militia then right click on the passer by. Just make sure you have a room available with a bed set to prisoner mode (select the bed then click the icon in the bottom left), that way you'll be able to bring them back and place them in the room.

Once you've done that, select your prisoner and click the prisoner tab. Click the "recruit" cross to turn it into a tick, and select "talk to them" underneath. When the warden comes in to check on them, they will try and recruit the prisoner Make sure you have someone set to warden in the overview tab though, otherwise nobody will go and chat to the prisoners!

[nickyb]

Yeah I knew I could capture them.  I meant that more as I wish I had a means other than randomly kidnapping people to recruit them when they are coming by.  Every time I do it I think of those strange folk up in the hills on Firefly.