Illness/Event ideas

[Watcheka]

Hello all, I had a few random ideas for some random events to make managing your colony that much more interesting.

-Illness. Perhaps different levels of sickness from just the common cold to outbreak worthy where you have to quarantine the sick.
-Aliums! Since space travel is a thing, other species might just find an interest in your colony be it for trade ranging from materials to human specimens, or even a different type of raider event with brain munching acid blood critters?
-Deeper capture system. Something where instead of just walking over and picking them up, have options for how you want to handle it either by force or friendly methods, with a chance of things to go south and ending up in a firefight of course.
-Rare events. Things ranging anywhere from a neighboring colony on the planet being overrun with what few survivors remain seeking refuge, trade ships crashing with cargo, maybe have some kind of seasonal or even a type of raider event where a cloud of lethal gas comes rolling in forcing you to take shelter immediately.

I apologize in advance if any of this has been mentioned before!

[palandus]

Brain munching acid blood critters? I'd rather not have to attempt to hold off a swarm of Xenomorphs from rampaging my colony, thank you. Considering colonial marines get massacred by them with high-end futuristic military tech, a bunch of poorly equipped colonists aren't going to stand a chance.

[jsteele726]

 I definitely agree that I'd like to see far more random events put into the storytellers. Never knowing what could happen next is my single most favorite aspect of this game. In keeping with your rare events, I would love to see this game pay homage to some science fictions movies (Hoping to not cross any copyright issues, naturally) where there could be much longer eclipses (Pitch Black), or finding some type of ruins where at random intervals aliens land to hunt something local (Aliens Versus Predator). I don't know how a company like Riot with League of Legends is able to make characters and skins that are clearly paying homage to a character from a movie/comic/game/etc without appearing to get in trouble, but if this is possible, I would LOVE to see references to other sci-fi!

[Untrustedlife]

The only thing i don't like about this idea is the brain-munching acid..things.
The rest are great.

Actually I do believe this game requires more alien critters on the planet.......giant spider things maybe? they start sorta building a home nearby your base.
Gotta kill them, things like that.

[AmalgamSnow]

^^ as above, forget the brain munching critters - that'll be a bitch to control if you want that implemented properly (like trying to quarantine that shit in early game xD).
Imagine the chaos though from illness! - can go lots of different ways depending on how you deal with the situations e.g. quarantines vs innoculations etc.