play chess with the colonists

[Simon_The_Space_Engineer]

when my colonists do desire to play chess (rarely) they play it alone and i feel bad for them, so maybe a way to help them with both mood bonus and increase skills like social or research would be to have the player either make a pawn play with them or play with them themselves. it could just be a simple addition of a computerized chess bot that changes difficulty (probably based on research skill) and maybe talk to the player. Plus if they talk then the player gets more attached to the colonist and then when they die the story kicks in and they are more upset

[Lonely Rogue]

    That's a great idea!

[b0rsuk]

If reserving a chess table for 2 colonists is too complicated, pretend they do play against other humans, they just think about the next move when they have time. Do you know the term Play-By-Mail ? It works for chess too.

What I'm saying is that all that is needed is a change of tooltip, to suggest that players are "doing/thinking through their turns" when the other party is not around.

[cultist]

I get what you're saying. It would be nice if they actually sat down and played together, but it rarely happens. The trouble is with so many different joy activities and joy levels being affected by all kinds of things, it's very rare that two pawns will decide to do the same thing at roughly the same time. Even when you set specific joy hours in the schedule, pawns seem much more attracted to the horseshoe pin than any other activity.

[Simon_The_Space_Engineer]

I get what you're saying. It would be nice if they actually sat down and played together, but it rarely happens. The trouble is with so many different joy activities and joy levels being affected by all kinds of things, it's very rare that two pawns will decide to do the same thing at roughly the same time. Even when you set specific joy hours in the schedule, pawns seem much more attracted to the horseshoe pin than any other activity.

exactly, even if i have two horse shoe pins the only thing that seems to get colonist together is one of the pins and maybe the dinning table everyone eats at

[Lonely Rogue]

I hear it trains shooting.