New update features

[Grimandevil]

• Colonist family and social relationship system / Social relationships with friends, rivals, family, chats, arguments, and fights
• Opinion system; pawns care about dozens of memories and situations to determine their opinions of each other
• Family members out to cousins and beyond
• Lovers, fiancees, marriages, ex-lovers, ex-spouses
• Lovin'
• People may get in social fights with those they dislike (even neutrals and enemies do this)
• Marriage ceremonies and parties

hey, i've got an unofficial a13 title - SimsWorld

[mumblemumble]

I wouldn't say that,  but it certainly makes dealing with interpersonal relationships more complex than "abrasive people suck"

[Barley]

I like the idea of animals attacking each other as well. Maybe we'll even see predication behaviors where foxes or wild wargs eat your chickens and stuff, so you have to defend them.

[Mossy piglet]

I foresee people gassing insect hives and living on jelly all winter. Also, my research only colonist will be happy with more projects. I know I will probably shoit wild predators and steal their kills. SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!!!!!

[mumblemumble]

Yeah,  i can see actually prioritizing a researcher early on, just to get up and running faster.

Im personally excited to see / deal with social interactions,  particularly with fights and such.  I could see arrests being made for fights,  or even just someone being an asshole too much. Would definitely make the jail system more interesting.

[Tatte]

I really hope EDB can come out with Prepare Carefully very soon after A13 release. With the whole family system it's going to be so cool. You could have the Swiss Family Robinson movie in-game! (Until they murder and eat eachother!)

[Match]

I really hope EDB can come out with Prepare Carefully very soon after A13 release. With the whole family system it's going to be so cool. You could have the Swiss Family Robinson movie in-game! (Until they murder and eat eachother!)

Oh I'd love a "hills have eyes" group. Incestuous cannibals everywhere!

[Mossy piglet]

Very happy about new production and research. All I wanted since the first time I played was an independent colony. And maybe, just maube, I am a step closer to it.

[AllenWL]

Note sure what you mean by 'independent', but current colonies are pretty independent too. I've been able to get by without using the commns console while every faction was my enemy, and it's not that difficult.

[Mossy piglet]

Yeah, but I either play on challenge or freeplay. When it is on freeplay, you can't get by as easily because raiders can't give me much resources. Independent meant being able to get everything without the comma comsole.

[rdz1122]

A13 hype!
What I look forward to the most from the list:
1. - Deeper research tree with more low-tech options and more things to research
2. - New fueled buildings: stove and generator
3. - Many more animals, some of which will hunt people

Low tech/no tech game here I come!

I agree; it would be great if we could select the tech level of the game during map generation.  Playing with Neanderthal or Medieval tech would be awesome, especially if you could limit the Raiders to similar (at least most).

[panggul_mas]

A13 hype!
What I look forward to the most from the list:
1. - Deeper research tree with more low-tech options and more things to research
2. - New fueled buildings: stove and generator
3. - Many more animals, some of which will hunt people

Low tech/no tech game here I come!

I agree; it would be great if we could select the tech level of the game during map generation.  Playing with Neanderthal or Medieval tech would be awesome, especially if you could limit the Raiders to similar (at least most).

I also am most excited about early/low tech options. I think the idea of rimworld is that your planet has multiple communities of varying tech levels scattered across it, due to the eons-long/multi-wave and disaster prone process of deep space colonization, so mixed technology levels is the norm.

Having an option to set up a custom game with custom faction profiles would be fine though - landing on an all mechtoid planet for example with constant fallout (hello icesheet 3.0!)

Holy crap, that would be a really fun feature actually (and I know this is the wrong place to talk about it so i'm going to post it here instead:https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=18072.0)

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[JimmyAgnt007]

As for mountain bases, the infestations are there to punish dwarfing. They're quite dangerous, likely to kill people, and actually getting insect jelly is likely to be tricky and bloody.

Nothing will stop me from building my Dwarf Mountain Fortress!!!

[Mossy piglet]

As for mountain bases, the infestations are there to punish dwarfing. They're quite dangerous, likely to kill people, and actually getting insect jelly is likely to be tricky and bloody.

Nothing will stop me from building my Dwarf Mountain Fortress!!!

I saw a post like that coming, and I thought it would be you

[AllenWL]

Frankly speaking, underground insect infestations might make me try mountain bases just to see if I can, rather than make me not do mountain bases.

Mainly so I can keep the insects penned up as a type of 'kill switch' thing, and release them if it ever looks like we're going to get overrun or something among those lines.