Your Cheapest Ideas

[TrashMan]

I have a few ideas...

Make it so when you kill a mech you can create a assembly table to recreate it. it would also be cool if you could buy them of traders but would be really expensive.
They would act exactly like colonists but would not require food and can't suffer mental difficulties but would have to enter a charging station to charge like a colonist sleeps. there would be different types...

-Cleaner (cheapest) just cleans any dirt extremely fast
-Cook (quite pricey) just cooks extremely fast
-Guard (Really expensive) Guards the colony and will use its built in machine gun on anything aggressive
-Medic(Quite pricey) Heals extremely well

Also the charging stations do require power and so if the electric is out then they can become useless and will be frozen in place.

HMmmm...

I can see drones/robots that do simple stuff - cleaning, hauling, wood chopping, mining. Dumb labor.
Things that require more sophisticated AI are a liability

[christhekiller]

Can we get a way to deselect weapons en-masse in the Weapon Rack storage screen.

I like to have one rack for each weapon and no more, so presently I have to click 20+ times through 20+ weapon racks and that gets tedious very fast.

[Cimanyd]

Can we get a way to deselect weapons en-masse in the Weapon Rack storage screen.

I like to have one rack for each weapon and no more, so presently I have to click 20+ times through 20+ weapon racks and that gets tedious very fast.

Oct 9 changelog

• Added disallow-all button to storage settings panel.

[Captain Meow]

Quick hunting improvements

-While a colonist is on a hunting job, they get a bonus similar to the 'Careful shooter' trait, but twice or triple its effect.

-While a colonist is on a hunting job, the max range of the weapon is reduced by 50%. Or even better, dynamic reduction based on shooting skill and the weapon's spread.

- When a hunter is about to fire their weapon, aiming countdown is reset if there are any colonists within it's firing cone and within it's line of sight. Since this check would only occur once every shot, it would barely affect performance.

-Hunting priority (1,2,3. Left blank=Don't hunt.)
[ ] Marked for hunting
[ ] Within zones (home, growing, etc.)
[ ] Everything else (non-marked and out of zones)

Not sure if doable in 4 hours, but still. This simple system would give you a huge amount of control over how hunters act. You may want your unskilled hunters not to hunt near your base in fear of accidents, or you may want a skilled hunter(or melee hunter) to focus on pest control near your base and growing areas. You could make colonists hunt only what you designate, or they could hunt automatically as new wildlife spawns or walks into zones.

[SpaceDorf]

Supreme Commander Zoom

I want to be able to Zoom out until the whole map is visible on the screen.

Optional, Zoom in on the position of the mousecursor

[tom_kazansky]

Don't recenter on citizens while using "," "." or make ">","<" do the same w/o recentering. (so i can order my dudes into fight positions quickly.

[Obb]

Make a warning pop up whenever someone tries hunting unarmed.

[Thorin]

Make a warning pop up whenever someone tries hunting unarmed.

If this is because of fresh colonist, then:
I would suggest this in a different form of an idea:
Hunting disabled when joining the colony.

Because we already have "sort of warning" for this in a different form:
"somebody successfully recruited someone".
Most of the time you're also going to re-equip them with better stuff and/or reorganize their priorities, so why not switching off hunting too.

I like to send out hunters to melee with their fist, just kicks for who is going to win.
The Mad Squirrel in the right corner or Mrs/Mr Brawler in the left.

[skullywag]

Agree on the disable hunting on recruit. I do i religously myself now but not everyone remembers.

[Sir]

One thing I'd really like to see is a stat counter of my gameplay time, both overall and colony-specific. It could be a part of the history tab or a separate thing in the esc. menu, but it'd be great to have since Steam isn't automatically doing it for me yet.

[Leemster]

How about set positions. So you set all your colonists positions, save that position and when raiders come you just press a button and all the colonists go to their set place and are drafted, there is something like this in FTL and it is super amazing.

[Ruin]

How about set positions. So you set all your colonists positions, save that position and when raiders come you just press a button and all the colonists go to their set place and are drafted, there is something like this in FTL and it is super amazing.

This one would be super sweet.  You could even have 2-3 set position saves if you wanted to go nuts.  But, one for the "here come the raiders" scramble is just a must.

[togt]

Just thought of a few things:
- Have small raider/tribe groups arrive un-announced, only announce the big ones.
- Let animals (boomrats, snakes) steal food once in a while, to keep us alert, aware of pest-control.

[Stan-K]

Some procedure/operation to help with mental breakdowns.

I was thinking e.g.:

• Lobotomy. Surprisingly common in the 40's and 50's, it helped dealing with mental breakdowns. Albeit at the loss of personality, intellectual capabilities, and with a significant chance of unintended brain damage and even death.
• Happiness chip. Less grounded in reality, but only slightly more advanced than the bionic eye I think. Implant a chip for let's say +5 happiness.
• Nerve Staple. A relatively simple procedure that would remove/reduce mood modifiers until a colonist develops immunity for it. Other colonists would be slightly unhappy for this to have been done to a fellow colonist, or even prisoner. (Borrowed from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri where you could nerve staple an entire city to remove any (un)happiness and stop them from rioting. It was considered an atrocity though)

[Wex]

Some procedure/operation to help with mental breakdowns.

I was thinking e.g.:

• Lobotomy. Surprisingly common in the 40's and 50's, it helped dealing with mental breakdowns. Albeit at the loss of personality, intellectual capabilities, and with a significant chance of unintended brain damage and even death.
• Happiness chip. Less grounded in reality, but only slightly more advanced than the bionic eye I think. Implant a chip for let's say +5 happiness.
• Nerve Staple. A relatively simple procedure that would remove/reduce mood modifiers until a colonist develops immunity for it. Other colonists would be slightly unhappy for this to have been done to a fellow colonist, or even prisoner. (Borrowed from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri where you could nerve staple an entire city to remove any (un)happiness and stop them from rioting. It was considered an atrocity though)

You could grab one of those pesky AI, using psionic powers to make your colonist go nuts, repourpose it, build a structure, and having it think happy toughts.