Do you guys ever edit the save game file?

[hyperkiller]

I usually only edit the save file if I start with bad health. For example my first A10 world I got 3 colonist with bad backs and two of them also had frail, and one had shot in the leg and the other had one of their arm.

[Matthiasagreen]

my response is a bit different. No, I don't do it. I know you can, but I don't know how.

[Dr. Z]

I don't know how to do this but I wouldn't do it even if. This game is made to challege you and by now I know so much about it that I'm happy for every challange. If you don't want bad back take younger colonists. It's a balance for the higher starting skills old people get, so it isn't just a cosmetic editing but actuall cheating. Also you can fix all the things you listed with the Expended Porsthetics and Organ Engineering Mod.

[JonoRig]

I have fixed bad back, frail and cataracts when I'm just relaxing on a basebuilder play, but I use the dev console to fix that, by apply damage, restore part and then selecting torso, fixes everything at once

[DDog]

Would love to fix bad back..  have no idea how... so no...

[linkxsc]

Used to use it in early alphas to give colonists actual weapons sometimes. Only reason ive used it recently Is that a colonist (starter 3) spawned in with an "old wound" to the brain, causing a 70% penalty to all actions.

[puddlejumper448]

Editing saves, no. However when I use to choose colonists (instead of the first ones I get like now) I would look at their health tab before launching and it wouldn't say bad back or frail, so i would pick them, but when they landed they after all did have bad back/frail. Ill go into the dev options and get rid of it in that case, because I wouldn't have chosen them in the first place if it had said it.

[Silvador]

I don't know how to do this but I wouldn't do it even if. This game is made to challege you and by now I know so much about it that I'm happy for every challange. If you don't want bad back take younger colonists. It's a balance for the higher starting skills old people get, so it isn't just a cosmetic editing but actuall cheating. Also you can fix all the things you listed with the Expended Porsthetics and Organ Engineering Mod.

This.

[Geertje123]

I only used to edit saves when my colonists got a meal stuck on them and died of starvation. I fixed it by clearing their inventories. Haven't had that bug anymore ever since so no need to edit it.

[hyperkiller]

until you said about the age, i never really noticed that. so now ill make sure i get young people

[Joshuasca]

I edit my saves to give the colonists custom haircuts and colors, cause im one of those people that loves to customize little characters, i guess i played too many rpgs or something.  Sometimes i will add a passion or adjust a trait, not really for power gaming but more for customizing the character in a story sort of way, but mostly try to leave them as they generated.  I quit doing this as much after i discovered the prepare carefully mod which is the only mod i use and it is awesome.

[DNK]

Increase challenge rating once a colony is established. I start 130-160% and go up past 200% later on.

[Ykara]

I copied a colonist from another savegame into my test colony because I liked her so much. It's funny to see your favourite colonists turn into disfigured test subjects.

[Gennadios]

Before I discovered the Prepare Carefully mod I'd move my favorite colonists between the alpha builds, being able to simply re-create clones made that a whole lot easier, so not anymore.

[Mikhail Reign]

I've use it on a reaver colony. Only recruited people with either Cannibal or Psychopath and would edit in which ever trait they didn't have - Psychopathic Cannibals are a rare find.