Fu** You phoebe chillax

ThePhoenix007 · December 22, 2015, 03:46:34 PM

If you don't want me to play, fine. I won't play you anymore, since you adamantly refuse to let my colonists eat.... I figured I'd random the location.. mountains and ice... great.. immediately dig cave, research hydro... after slaughtering the god damn dog that kept eating my crops. The power blew... right before dark... yay.. harvest dead... again... rebuild, keeping good balance of power... thank god for a cargo drop. Living on Ramen noodles at this point... harvest ready.... blight. 1 plant left. Replant... regrow.. one colonist kills a lone raider and eats his meal the rest incapacitated from malnutrition.... harvest ready.. start harvesting boom power blows again, right before dark. Got 2 plants.. fuck you phoebe. /ragequit.

jzero · December 22, 2015, 03:55:03 PM

wow. that sucks, once i got a crop almost ready, it was a winter and freezing , everyone was starving. And then i got a blight followed by a massive raid immediately after that, causing my colony to be destroyed because half the people were incapacitated by that time. Oh and you always could of maybe, i dunno, snacked on a few people. That's always an option

Austupaio · December 22, 2015, 04:17:40 PM

Sounds like you need to hunt more, I keep a couple of hydroponics tables growing rice and that's it, I never have issues. I just grow rice for variety's sake in meals.

skullywag · December 22, 2015, 04:53:41 PM

also set your pets to not be allowed into your grow areas.

Shurp · December 22, 2015, 05:09:59 PM

Also you should load the auto-save if the Random Event Generator does something stupid. why waste a good colony?

zandadoum · December 23, 2015, 03:27:24 AM

i never use hidroponics as main source of food.

find some soiled ground, build a greenhouse around it. problem solved. solar flare? no biggie, plants won't die from it.

ThePhoenix007 · December 23, 2015, 08:09:26 AM

Quote from: Austupaio on December 22, 2015, 04:17:40 PM
Sounds like you need to hunt more, I keep a couple of hydroponics tables growing rice and that's it, I never have issues. I just grow rice for variety's sake in meals.

No hunting in the coldest biomes. No animals to hunt.

ThePhoenix007 · December 23, 2015, 08:10:52 AM

Quote from: zandadoum on December 23, 2015, 03:27:24 AM
i never use hidroponics as main source of food.

find some soiled ground, build a greenhouse around it. problem solved. solar flare? no biggie, plants won't die from it.

Yeah I read that this morning, gonna try it later.

Duban · December 23, 2015, 09:33:50 AM

Ouch. You know you don't need hydroponics to grow on ice sheets or deserts, right? There is a thin sliver of gravel on the border between mountains and the ice sheet. If you can get it a source of light and heat you can grow on the gravel without having to research hydroponics.

N0xiety · December 27, 2015, 03:18:00 PM

Don't forget to use 2 thick walls and doors for your greenhouse. This is usefull for both keeping heat in or out whichever you are trying to do.

N0xiety · December 28, 2015, 06:46:38 AM

I am playing on Phoebe extreme in a -95c winter ice sheet and i must say it is not easy at all... She just sent a ship part while a volcanic winter was going on and outside temprature was about -120c. I couldn't send people in power armor since even in that they were freezing to death so i mortared it and about 30 centipides with 25 scythers came out... Yeahhhhh.... Then she starts a solar flare on top of it and all my crops die and my guys are freezing in their legendary devlistrand parkas at -125c while going crazy from the psychic ship... Yup its CHILLAX allright PHOEBE so CHILLAX

TLHeart · December 28, 2015, 07:57:50 AM

Have to understand that phoebe will send just as many events at you as Cassandra will. Phoebe uses all the other events more, and raids less, which means you will get more solar flairs, more zzzts, more heat/cold waves, toxic fall outs, volcanic winters, but hey you don't get suicidal raiders every 5 days.