I'm back // A few suggestions

Started by LouisTBR, September 23, 2017, 09:15:30 AM

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LouisTBR

After a long hiatus, I'm back. I've been playing Rimworld a lot more recently, and I love the way that the game has turned out.

I've had a few thoughts while playing, especially with mods:

Allow Tool (MOD)
This mod is practically vanilla to me, as I very rarely play a colony without it activated. Congratulations and thank you to @UnlimitedHugs, the creator of the mod in the Steam Workshop. I highly suggest that the devs implement this into the main game as it is a very useful and highly practical mod.

Hunting
Recently I've taken inspiration from YouTubers like Aavak and played with the Rich Explorer scenario as a highly-skilled melee fighter. However, the problem with this play style is the fact that, until you get more colonists, it is darn near impossible to cull larger animals, especially in herds. Now, I play with a warg as my pet/sidekick who often receives treatment before other colonists, but when you have muffalo grazing on your Healroot while you and your genetically superior pet watch hopelessly, I often wish that this beast could help out.
A way of giving orders to a strong animal like a warg, wolf or dog that lets them hunt animals on their own for the colony would be a very useful addition. For example, alongside the "Hunt" order, there would be "Hunt"(pet), which allows colonists to get on with tasks while naturally skilled hunter-gatherer animals go to town on some poor deer.

Prison Food
Aside from placing an unsightly great nutrient paste dispenser in the middle of your prisoner's room, there really is no easy way of stopping a guilty raider from snacking on lavish meals provided by the warden. The Prisoner Tab allows you to control which level of care/medicine the prisoner gets, but only offers a button to toggle whether the prisoner gets food or not. Why not have the same principle as the medicine control but with meal types. The lowest option being no food, then raw meat and veg (or perhaps another prisoner;)), then nutrient paste, them simple/PSM meals, fine meals and for the most stubborn of prisoners, lavish meals.

Anyway, that's me. I'll be on a bit more regular! Cheers  ;D
Only in RimWorld is the phrase "31 Heavily-Armed Siegers are currently bombing your base" preferable to "50 manhunting squirrels are attacking your colony"