[MOD PACK] (Alpha 9) Epokalypse 1.02b [Hotfixes n' Tweaks!]

[Epyk]

I like the idea of leaderboards, but with Prepare Carefully, it's possible to make the startup incredibly simple. No qualms with PC (I love the mod), just saying it might skew your leaderboards if everyone has maxed skills.

I let the "can't play with out this mod" get the best of me and soon realized that EdB prepare carefully makes the challenge I'm looking for in Epokalypse.
It will be removed next update.

Oh, no - I understand. I honestly CAN'T play without it. EdB's got a fantastic selection.
I just wanted to help keep the leaderboards more competitive. I doubt I'll attempt them, but I'd love to see how well others have done.

Gonna download the mod pack here in a little bit and give it all a whirl!

I just re-read that EdB "makes" the challenge I'm looking for. Why did I type that? Must be sleepy...

Meant to say it jeopardizes the challenge I'm looking for in the Epokalypse. 

[Novellum]

Oh god no.
http://gyazo.com/0e2e52ba3354f6320fbe2f3ba8a9fcfd

All of those are ship parts crashing to the ground.

It's doing like, 20 events each second in the log.

That's crash landing for yah! 

It eventually crashed rimworld because it didn't stop spamming the parts, if it happens again I'll let you know.

[Epyk]

What's the reccomended storyteller/difficulty for the leaderboard challenge? Also had an odd bug on my last game but it went pretty far, btw are 200+ terrorworm attacks a thing that's supposed to happen? I survived it, but I had enough time for one colonist to get ripped to shreds with 40+ bites, be treated, recover, and come back to fight the worms again with a cyber pistol. All while I took turns kiting them with a survival rifle. It was intense. Took a couple of very dark, tense, horror filled nights. Then my overview screen broke and I couldn't assign jobs to my colonists anymore

I don't mind what storyteller difficulty is used.
As for the Horrors horrific numbers, I'll reduce them come next update.

[Epyk]

Oh god no.
http://gyazo.com/0e2e52ba3354f6320fbe2f3ba8a9fcfd

All of those are ship parts crashing to the ground.

It's doing like, 20 events each second in the log.

That's crash landing for yah! 

It eventually crashed rimworld because it didn't stop spamming the parts, if it happens again I'll let you know.

It shouldn't crash endlessly. 
Please do let me know if this continues. The crash landing event does go on for quite some time however.

[Epyk]

Anything needed to get the zombies rolling? I've had 48 days with only a minor raider attack. Set to challenging.

You have a couple weeks to set up base before zombies start attacking, later on they start raiding more and in bigger numbers.

[Epyk]

What's the reccomended storyteller/difficulty for the leaderboard challenge? Also had an odd bug on my last game but it went pretty far, btw are 200+ terrorworm attacks a thing that's supposed to happen? I survived it, but I had enough time for one colonist to get ripped to shreds with 40+ bites, be treated, recover, and come back to fight the worms again with a cyber pistol. All while I took turns kiting them with a survival rifle. It was intense. Took a couple of very dark, tense, horror filled nights. Then my overview screen broke and I couldn't assign jobs to my colonists anymore

I think as a basis, everyone doing leaderboards should probably be on Cassandra - Challenge(100%).

I guess I'll have to break my Randy Random addiction than...

Come to think of it, Randy may have been why I had those 200+ Terrorworms attack me in the first 2 months.

Storyteller does have a lot to do with spawn rates yes, but Horrors spawn-weight in raids is really high!
I've already reduced it by more than 75%!

I know I want challenge but, that's a lot of entities on screen!

[Novellum]

Oh god no.
http://gyazo.com/0e2e52ba3354f6320fbe2f3ba8a9fcfd

All of those are ship parts crashing to the ground.

It's doing like, 20 events each second in the log.

That's crash landing for yah! 

It eventually crashed rimworld because it didn't stop spamming the parts, if it happens again I'll let you know.

It shouldn't crash endlessly. 
Please do let me know if this continues. The crash landing event does go on for quite some time however.

It definitely wasn't the normal event.
http://gfycat.com/BelatedConstantFly

My screencap software hates the debug menu for some reason, but that's what was happening behind the scenes.

[SeamusCameron]

What's the reccomended storyteller/difficulty for the leaderboard challenge? Also had an odd bug on my last game but it went pretty far, btw are 200+ terrorworm attacks a thing that's supposed to happen? I survived it, but I had enough time for one colonist to get ripped to shreds with 40+ bites, be treated, recover, and come back to fight the worms again with a cyber pistol. All while I took turns kiting them with a survival rifle. It was intense. Took a couple of very dark, tense, horror filled nights. Then my overview screen broke and I couldn't assign jobs to my colonists anymore

I think as a basis, everyone doing leaderboards should probably be on Cassandra - Challenge(100%).

I guess I'll have to break my Randy Random addiction than...

Come to think of it, Randy may have been why I had those 200+ Terrorworms attack me in the first 2 months.

Storyteller does have a lot to do with spawn rates yes, but Horrors spawn-weight in raids is really high!
I've already reduced it by more than 75%!

I know I want challenge but, that's a lot of entities on screen!

I should mention that the 200+ Terrorworm attack also happened on 0.6b on RR/Challenge. If you already altered the spawn rates for 1.01 than it's probably already fixed.

Those horrors make a really nasty screeching noise when they're stacked 50 to a tile though XD
That fight is going to be an oddly fond memory for a while.
And the poor colonist that got mauled by 40 of them within a second. Can't believe he survived that... and still had all his limbs... and blood!

[Epyk]

Updated the leaderboard.

Moonshard - Start and End

[Novellum]

Noooo, my number 1 spot! (I can't get past three months now because of stupid mistakes)

[SeamusCameron]

I'm a little iffy on these new crop cycles. From a realism perspective it's probably too fast a growth cycle to make sense, but from a supply/demand perspective well, let's just say the desert isn't the best place to go for crops.
(Didn't help that much for controlling fire spread during the crash landing event either)

Had about 4 people actually starve on me waiting for strawberries to grow. And right before the crops were ready for harvest they got blighted. Most of the food income is from killing camels and iguanas and shoving them in a nutrient paste dispenser.

[Pathing]

The leaderboard & event are very good idea but how can you ensure that players will die sooner or later? what if ones can survive forever...

[Epyk]

I'm a little iffy on these new crop cycles. From a realism perspective it's probably too fast a growth cycle to make sense, but from a supply/demand perspective well, let's just say the desert isn't the best place to go for crops.
(Didn't help that much for controlling fire spread during the crash landing event either)

Had about 4 people actually starve on me waiting for strawberries to grow. And right before the crops were ready for harvest they got blighted. Most of the food income is from killing camels and iguanas and shoving them in a nutrient paste dispenser.

If you can survive living in the desert during an apocalyptic event for an extended period of time then I'd be impressed! 

[Epyk]

The leaderboard & event are very good idea but how can you ensure that players will die sooner or later? what if ones can survive forever...

Then that master survivor deserves to be at the top of the leaderboard!

[MrWashingToad]

Razor rain did me in. Was hitting inside my base in sections that were under the "overhead mountain" area. I think Cassandra hated me this trip around as well. No darkness attacks, but pirates about 2 dozen times and nearly non-stop zombies and 3 razor rain events that wiped my base each time they hit.
v1.01, Cassandra @ 100%

Start 01 May 5500  https://www.dropbox.com/s/0h5hxklv9eu541o/screenshot7.png?dl=0
End 06 Sep 5500 https://www.dropbox.com/s/09z0z9du8wozm72/screenshot8.png?dl=0