Wandering around in a daze, but still doing useful stuff

[mikeash]

This is a rather odd and amusing one.

I was messing around with a buried mountain base, and wanted to see how long I could last if I completely cut myself off from the outside world. I was buried deep, and once I was set for power underground (using ship reactors), I walled up the entrance.

I got the AI core event, and thought I'd see if I could withstand it. Of course, I couldn't. Gradually, my guys went mad. They all went into the "dazed and wandering" state. At first, I dragged them off and rehabilitated them, but then I noticed that they were still hauling, building, cooking, etc. even while in this state. Eventually, everyone went mad except for one guy who had just been recruited, and had an enormously high mood from all the convincing. But the colony kept on running smoothly? Finally, the last guy's mood got brought down too and he started wandering in a daze. Immediately, game over.

[Condorscondor]

to this very day they tell tales of the insane mountain people, who are somehow incredibly organized and self sustaining.

[Tynan]

That's kind of interesting. Maybe the wander behavior failed to run because you were isolated so the AI decision tree "fell through" to the normal work behaviors. I'll look into it, thanks.