[A13] Simple trade fix mod: Trade-12

Shurp · April 27, 2016, 08:47:49 PM

I got tired of waiting for traders to bring me plasteel, gold, and steel, so I bumped the frequency of Orbital Traders and Trade Caravans to 12. Yeah, upping it from 3 to 12 is a bit of overkill, you might want to back it down. But this makes the Rimworld economy worthwhile again.

Instructions: unzip this in your Mods folder. Play rimworld, select "Trade-12" mod. Off you go!

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ZozZ · April 27, 2016, 10:10:25 PM

What there is orbital traders never heard of them

Iwillbenicetou · April 27, 2016, 10:55:16 PM

You should make your own small mods page

These are really nice and worth while.

Quote from: ZozZ on April 27, 2016, 10:10:25 PM
What there is orbital traders never heard of them

I really hope you're joking. But anyway... -.-
You have to research circuitry (I think), to get a communications console. Then you can build it and have access to orbital traders. Which are basically space ships that send/receive resources for money.

ZozZ · April 27, 2016, 11:38:35 PM

Quote from: Iwillbenicetou on April 27, 2016, 10:55:16 PM
You should make your own small mods page These are really nice and worth while.
Quote from: ZozZ on April 27, 2016, 10:10:25 PM
What there is orbital traders never heard of them
I really hope you're joking. But anyway... -.-
You have to research circuitry (I think), to get a communications console. Then you can build it and have access to orbital traders. Which are basically space ships that send/receive resources for money.

i was being sarcastic, they never come in my colonies even though i always build the comm console maybe i am just unlucky

Rock5 · April 27, 2016, 11:39:36 PM

Yes, I was going to say he was being sarcastic because of how infrequent they come.

I'm tempted to use this mod. I don't mind the extra difficulty of having fewer traders but when you have colonists waiting for bionics to become productive again and you play the whole game to the end without ever getting the chance to buy that bionic part then it's definitely too infrequent. The best I got was once I was able to buy a bionic claw for my colonist that had 50% manipulation. That got it up to 93%. but that was only the one time and only 1 colonist.

hoochy · April 28, 2016, 12:24:17 AM

You may also be interested in the ED subspace transponder mod. It allows you to build a building which takes time to "power up" that can then call an orbital ship in. This mod is a good simple idea too so nice work! But I like the ability to call them in too.

MisterVertigo · April 28, 2016, 10:18:21 AM

What was the frequency of Orbital Traders in the previous beta? I'd like to try this out, but I'm curious as to what a good, balance frequency would be.

Rock5 · April 28, 2016, 11:40:05 AM

I still have A12d. It doesn't have the same incidents. Instead of OrbitalTraderArrival and TraderCaravanArrival it just had TraderArrival. It was set to 22 chance.

Astasia · April 29, 2016, 06:55:33 PM

12 is still essentially half of what it used to be. I've played around with the value myself, switching between 6 and 12. 12 is a pretty good number, at 6 you can still go a very long time without any.

Rock5 · April 29, 2016, 10:59:48 PM

BTW I got rid of the Caravan one altogether. I get plenty of caravans as it is.

viperwasp · April 30, 2016, 04:12:27 AM

i think they Nerfed Orbital Traders just a little to much in A13. So this mod is very good. Thanks.

Shabazza · April 30, 2016, 11:09:34 AM

I like your little mod.
I reduced the caravans to "6" though.