Your Cheapest Ideas

[Catt]

Add a configurable minimum and maximum amount of specific items to a stockpile. Cause the herbal medicine close to the drug lab is just as important as the one in the hospital and in the prison

[Granitecosmos]

In other words a body part should heal a percentage of max HP in a unit of time.

So a 1/10 nose would heal slower than a 6/40 torso? No thanks. Let the healing be influenced by the body part health multiplier of the creature instead. It does what you want, but better.

[Ruisuki]

chance for higher social interaction between people you are feeding akin to bonding with animals when healing randomly.. At best i usually get a chitchat +1. Feeding and cheer up should do better.

[b0rsuk]

A bunch of traits to interact with the World Map system. Some backgrounds would start with them.

Perceptive: when traveling on the World Map, has a low chance to find small treasures, such as some silver, a cache of drugs, weapons, components, etc. (Explorer)

Survivalist: Uses less food on World Map (Loner)

Herbalism: Occasionally finds food on the World Map if it's a growing period. (Gatherer, Herbalist)

Elusive: lower chance for the caravan to get raided (Defector)

Geologist: has a chance to find rare minerals when traveling (Geologist)

Wanted: when traveling, has a chance to get in trouble with some kind of sheriff / law enforcement, causing a raid. (Space Pirate, Escaped Convict, Serial Murderer)

Tinkerer: sometimes finds components (Machine Collector)

Tracking: Higher chance to meet a caravan (Scout)

Performer: raises mood while travelling (Minstrel)

HMm, I need more inspiration, these are a bit dull.

[SpaceDorf]

A bunch of traits to interact with the World Map system. Some backgrounds would start with them.

Perceptive: when traveling on the World Map, has a low chance to find small treasures, such as some silver, a cache of drugs, weapons, components, etc. (Explorer)

HMm, I need more inspiration, these are a bit dull.

This calls for the Weird Wasteland Trait :-D
find UFO's , singers believed dead, hear eary sounds all the time ..


Warrior : Possible to meet a enemy Caravan to raid.

Slave Driver : Faster Movement on the Map, but causes Mood to sink with every day traveled.

[giannikampa]

make surgery fail only means additional treatings with medicine and time to get back on feet

[ja7833]

Ground beef.  Random meats turned into ground beef at the butcher table. 

[Ruisuki]

notification sound when a colonist levels up

[Venge]

I haven't really noticed this so I don't know if this is really in though, but prisoners have a higher chance to be recruited if they have a relationship in the colony, especially a lover/spouse.

[Ruisuki]

Better animal AI. they shouldnt be walking in front of shots when my caravan has been ambushed. Much less stay there and take it after theyve been shot three times.

[MerlosTheMad]

WE NEED SHEEP. THERE'S EVERY KIND OF WOOL IN THE GAME BUT SHEEP WOOL! lol

[BlueMarble007]

I don't know if this idea is considered 'cheap', but I'd like to see skill-minima on weapons, or the ability for modders to add this in.

Another, separate idea: melee damage increase on higher levels of skill. Exemplary: skilled swordsmen can use a sword more effectively, stab/swing in more vulnerable places/with more force than unskilled swordsmen.

[giannikampa]

3 in one:

- make ripetute click on "colonists idle" to cycle trough them

- add "centerview on selected thing" keyboard key

- add "follow selected thing" keyboard key

[b0rsuk]

Two new traits:

Mentor
Happily gives advice to other colonists, similar to Kind and Abrasive. To do so, the Mentor needs to have a skill with higher level than a potential target. The target gains some xp in the taught skill.

Observant
The colonist gains skills by observing others. He can gain Melee by observing a melee fight, Shooting when someone shoots nearby, Cooking if he goes past a working cook, Medicine if he's cleaning while someone is treating animals in the barn, etc.
In particular, an Observant colonist should learn when he fights a more skilled enemy in melee, or when he fights an animal.

[Ruisuki]

teaching should be its own system I think, not a trait. and increase social of the mentor while doing so.