Your Cheapest Ideas

[asquirrel]

Something in real time showing how much immunity has built up when they get the plague and the pawns are fighting for their lives.

[Tammabanana]

I don't understand how the game decides to sort the pawns on the colonist bar or in the work/restrict/assign tab, so I don't know if working on that is cheap. But I'd like to be able to set a sort method, like alphabetical, or by-best-X-skill, or drag-and-drop, or something. Currently, it seems like every time I get a new colonist, or every time someone dies, the whole order gets rearranged, and I get mixed up about who is where on the list. I'd like to be able to predict, somehow, where the new colonist will end up in the list.

[jmababa]

I don't understand how the game decides to sort the pawns on the colonist bar or in the work/restrict/assign tab, so I don't know if working on that is cheap. But I'd like to be able to set a sort method, like alphabetical, or by-best-X-skill, or drag-and-drop, or something. Currently, it seems like every time I get a new colonist, or every time someone dies, the whole order gets rearranged, and I get mixed up about who is where on the list. I'd like to be able to predict, somehow, where the new colonist will end up in the list.

It aint cheap ya know

[Tammabanana]

It aint cheap ya know

Actually, I don't, which I mentioned. Thanks for the witty tip, though.

[veterantodd]

Integration of AI core with CryptoSleep Casket


The Core 'holds' an imprint of a colonist.  You put your critically injured or infected colonists in the casket and make a 'backup' of the colonists' memories, skills, passions etc...but the colonists' injured body is destroyed...then later on, you can force a prisoner into the casket and re-write their mind with that of the saved colonist.

[Otakugirl]

'Animal Areas' are great, but I'd love to see a version which allows animals (or colonists) to go anywhere but X area. Same mechanic, but instead of limiting them to stay in that single area, allow them to go everywhere BUT that area. This would be a great way to stop darned pets from eating all my meal supplies when there are plenty of corpses/kibble piles RIGHT THERE D:<

[Boba Phat]

Test.  If you're a dev, reply to this message.  This way we'll know whether these are actually being read and whether there's any point to piling more stuff on top of a pile already 251 pages high.

Edit by Tynan: I read them... sometimes it just takes a while!

[Alenerel]

'Animal Areas' are great, but I'd love to see a version which allows animals (or colonists) to go anywhere but X area. Same mechanic, but instead of limiting them to stay in that single area, allow them to go everywhere BUT that area. This would be a great way to stop darned pets from eating all my meal supplies when there are plenty of corpses/kibble piles RIGHT THERE D:<

I get what you say. Currently you can do the same thing with a bit of workaround... Just cover the entire map in that area except the zones you dont want them to go.

[Masticon]

'Animal Areas' are great, but I'd love to see a version which allows animals (or colonists) to go anywhere but X area. Same mechanic, but instead of limiting them to stay in that single area, allow them to go everywhere BUT that area. This would be a great way to stop darned pets from eating all my meal supplies when there are plenty of corpses/kibble piles RIGHT THERE D:<

You can already do this by covering the area you don't want them to go (the cooler for example) and then inverting the Zone under Manage Areas.

[Masticon]

Change Hay to Grain and require it along with Hops for Brewing. So far we are making beer with only hops. This is a terrible idea. A regular 5 gallon batch of beer is 1-3 ounces of hops and 15 lbs of barley.

[Viewer]

I think a good way to build immersion would be to display a message when all of the original colonists you began the map with have died - it's easy to forget that all of them originally have a reason for being where they are, even if it isn't a happy one.

For example:

Crashlanded:
"It began with a panicked evacuation onto a distant, uncharted world - from there, <ColonistName1,2,3> struggled to build a colony, with the distant hope of someday returning home. It was here that their journey ended."

The Rich Explorer:
"Setting out from their Glitterworld home in search of the realities of frontier living, <ColonistName> found this world. Was it what they wanted? Were they satisfied at the end? Who can say?"

Lost Tribe:

"Fleeing for their lives from perhaps divine judgement, <ColonistName1..5> reached this land, and attempted to build a home and a new life. Whatever the form, it has caught up with them in the end."

Below that, this generic message would appear:

"Nonetheless, their memory will live on - in the lives they have touched on this world, and most importantly, in the colony they have built, and those who remain to tend it in their stead.

<ColonyName>. Long may it endure."

[kobar]

Colonist eating a corpse stacks 3 times and gives -7 debuff when eating without a table x3 makes -9 what the bloody squirrel Tynan.
Make something please.

[OFWG]

Graves showing the pawn's date of death. Like a simple "Died on the 2nd of summer, 5501" when you click on them.

This is already there if you click on the grave, isn't it? I know you can at least see who is in the grave...

Something in real time showing how much immunity has built up when they get the plague and the pawns are fighting for their lives.

This is already on the pawn health tab.

[Alenerel]

Starting animals shouldnt be bonded. Sometimes they are useful, sometimes they arent, I prefer to eat them if they arent.

[A Friend]

Graves showing the pawn's date of death. Like a simple "Died on the 2nd of summer, 5501" when you click on them.

This is already there if you click on the grave, isn't it? I know you can at least see who is in the grave...

It only says who's in there. You have to open it up and check the corpse itself to know how long it's been dead for.