Ack. Randy Random got me finally.

[Tippssy]

Pretty new to the game. Played the tutorial, kept going til I had 8 colonists. Thought "let's see how this goes" and started a new game. Tribal, some challenge, Randy, permadeath.

Like 15 hours into it. Doing surprisingly well. Had some deaths to 2 separate plagues in a single year and I executed a cook because he kept resisting arrest when he went on drug binges, no big deal. I have 8 colonists now. Got the event for someone being pursued, so I opted to save them. The raid had 8 people with bows. Great. My colonists consist of 2 people with passable melee skills and steel longswords and nobody with a shooting skill above 2 (the plague liked the shooters I suppose). 1 greatbow, a couple low tier guns with like 50% durability, awful quality from raiders.

10 seconds after they appeared, a 5 pirate raid dropped in by pods. 1 superior sniper rifle, 2 grenades, 2 melee.

So much pain. 2 deaths, including the only other one who could cook. I'll need to expand my graveyard.

[Dashthechinchilla]

I started a randy rough rich explorer. The second day I sent her out to plant the fields. I get a cargo pods message and a moment later a colonist needs rescue message. Randy had dropped the pods on the only human on the map. She bleed to death shortly after.

[Tippssy]

Welp. He sent 4 more raids in 3 days. I had too many hurt people to fight back. The fires eventually consumed my food stores. No going back.

I arrested my remaining colonists and executed them. My last person alive died to infection from untreated wounds.

16 hours on my first tribal, some challenge, randy, permadeath file. Not complaining.

[sick puppy]

not complaining? that's the spirit.

[Canute]

I arrested my remaining colonists and executed them. My last person alive died to infection from untreated wounds.

You know you can throw out your pawn of the colony ? At the character sheet you got an icon top right for that.
Basicly you could throw out everyone and hope Randy is grateful and send you a new recruit before another raid happen.

[Tippssy]

not complaining? that's the spirit.

Considering I created the file with the thought of "let's see how fast I get murdered" and lasted 16 hours, I'm pretty satisfied. I learned a lot too. Plus, there were plenty of times Randy was super cool to me, like sending me a dozen chickens right before winter so I had plenty of eggs.

Do people complain super hard about Randy? They could just... not choose him. Random is random. I found it exciting.

[Tippssy]

I arrested my remaining colonists and executed them. My last person alive died to infection from untreated wounds.

You know you can throw out your pawn of the colony ? At the character sheet you got an icon top right for that.
Basicly you could throw out everyone and hope Randy is grateful and send you a new recruit before another raid happen.

I wanted to go out with a bang. It was fun!

[df_inc]

Best way to go!

[Kirby23590]

Randy Random is awesome!

Well he's kicking my $$$ in intense difficulty with no mods just to see how long will i last while keeping a named character alive or otherwise it's game over. I have to say to him, throwing a sapper raid with two snipers while i don't have resources to build a single turret in the base and it was very intense.
Luckily no colonist has died but except that boomrat who was bonded with that character but oh well...

I have lots of love and hate relationship with randy throwing me free food in a toxic fallout and throwing me a... oh look a crashed psychic ship part and oh after attacking the crashed ship have an mechanoid raid! But I'll never forget the rhino manhunter pack coming and then a refugee chased by a group of angry tribals in A14 with randy random...