High expectations

[PKGameOnly]

I dont understand the "High Expectation" debuff.  How would a player ever counter act this?  Are the colonist expecting to have gold block building their walls, and gold table in the dining room, and gold or silver weapons, ?  What?  Just because your stock pile has many items in it and your combined wealth is over 200k, dont mean you are wealthy or should expect slaves to follow you around fanning you and offering you grapes from their hands.  What is the reasonable expectation that the colonist want when they think about "High Expectation" ?

[EscapeZeppelin]

Are the colonist expecting to have gold block building their walls, and gold table in the dining room, and gold or silver weapons, ?

Yes. Or at the very least a moderately beautiful home.

[tommytom]

I put 3 art really good art sculptures in a spacious interior bedroom with a pessimist and never got the beauty buff. How freaking beautiful does it have to be? You literally go into wealthy status by making sculptures, so you can't "prepare" for this time and also increase raid sizes because of your wealth combating wealth. It's a really really vicious circle causing a very quickly escalated over-reaction.

[cultist]

There's no point in decorating bedrooms. Colonists ignore any environment buff/debuff except room size when they sleep. Not sure if this is intentional.

You need to decorate areas they occupy while awake.

[lusername]

There is no counter. It's just stuck there forever, bugging the OCD, and higher-level colonies don't actually have any greater capacity for making pawns happy than low-level ones, since the game doesn't really have any additional happiness inducers beyond the ones you unlock early. Apparently that's why those debuffs are going away in A10.

[Boboid]

You can fill your hallways and farms with sculptures. Takes a million bloody years but you *can* do it to compensate for V-high expectations.

It's pretty clunky though.

[StorymasterQ]

You can fill your hallways and farms with sculptures. Takes a million bloody years but you *can* do it to compensate for V-high expectations.

It's pretty clunky though.

So, in a way, making your base as good as they (highly) expected. Sounds like what it was supposed to do.

[Boboid]

Yeah except that the beauty mechanic is all wonky and it doesn't make a lot of intuitive sense.. The amount of actual production time associated with making even a single room beautiful enough to get a +5 mood modifier is gargantuan even if you've got 10 colonists with reasonably high art skill.

If colonists gained a positive mood modifier based on say... the beauty of their actual bedroom then you'd be able to sensibly handle the debuff by specifically targeting problem-prone colonists with your resources, but as-is you have to blanket-fire your entire colony which in most cases is an ENOURMOUS area.

There's theoretically potential for a High Expectations style debuff but with the current game systems it's a bit of a punch in the crotch.

[Darkhymn]

I dont understand the "High Expectation" debuff.  How would a player ever counter act this?  Are the colonist expecting to have gold block building their walls, and gold table in the dining room, and gold or silver weapons, ?  What?  Just because your stock pile has many items in it and your combined wealth is over 200k, dont mean you are wealthy or should expect slaves to follow you around fanning you and offering you grapes from their hands.  What is the reasonable expectation that the colonist want when they think about "High Expectation" ?

I posted the first response in this thread. The ugly mountain fortress they lived in had only a few potted plants for decoration, and those people lived over a year with high expectations and not a single mental break. If your pawns are so miserable that high expectations is causing problems... you should re-evaluate how you're playing.

[REMworlder]

The amount of actual production time associated with making even a single room beautiful enough to get a +5 mood modifier is gargantuan even if you've got 10 colonists with reasonably high art skill.

The problem with decorating bedrooms is it has little effect on colonists, unless your colonists do more than just sleep in their rooms. Decorating places with more colonist traffic like dining rooms has a much higher payback. Throw in some beer and your colonists not only spend more time in the nice dining hall, but the beer will make them feel better about things too.

Plus it's not just about beauty, but also about removing negative thoughts. Providing lighting, for example, will remove the "in the darkness" thought.

[passi965]

Oh Wow,

thank you so much guys for the tips/tricks to ''counter'' the ''High Expectations'' i will try a few things and and give feedback later if it works good or not.