Ideologies: Strong, Debilitating, Fun?

[AileTheAlien]

What's everyone's picks for the strongest, most debilitating, and most fun memes or precepts?

I think Tunneler is overall the strongest single meme, since it's got some good upsides, and not much downside. Living in small spaces, with quick tunneling, growing mushrooms on every available square inch for free? Yes please! Nudism's probably the most debilitating for a single meme, since it's just mood debuffs unless you restrict your pawns to temperate climates or take changes with death. The most fun I've had so far, has been with Tree Connection, since the guar trees seem very space-efficient compared to other crops, and grow without problem on sand, giving a nice boose to extreme desert colonies!  : )

[khun_poo]

My current run is... Raider + Human Supremacy + Proselytizer + Tunneler

Raider meme. Sure -18% global work speed suck but mood buff from this trait is so good. this meme also allow colonist do don't mind seeing corpse. So, it's make the ancient structure hunting much easier. Also, shooting specialist is very good at their raider job.

Human Supremacy. Crafting specialist is just OP. Get everyone of your guy a masterwork weapon will be a cake walk. Also, I have a precept to accept cannibalism, turning human skin into cape is my main income. Never bonded with animal also a plus to me because they die all the time.

Proselytizer. Your ideology spread chance is up to 700%. So, building a prison barrack and just converting one of them to your believe. It'll spread like a flu. Also, Intense bigotry is free +2 mood buff if you always have the same ideology on every colonist. With the Apostasy precept enable, your pawn will never change to other ideology.


Tunneller. Combo with darklight and fight in the dark precept is just so good. Under mountain craftable grow tile is too good. Infestation is easy to deal with if you have fight in the dark. Have a nimble melee pawn with a best armor you can, block a choke point and keep raining the bullet to them. Be careful about megascarab though since for some reason they can just phase through our tank. So have sub melee tank behind the main tank is preferable.

About the Precept I add as extra.
Raiding: Respected
Cannibalism: Acceptable
Darkness combat: Prefer
Lighting: Darklight
Male/female clothing: No rule (This is good to strip every prisoner. So they get naked and mood debuff so they convert faster. After they convert, the naked mood debuff is gone)
Research: Very fast
Organ use: Acceptable
Execution: Required (Harvest vital organ from prisoner count as execution too!)
Apostasy: The strongest one
Physical love: spouses (Strict). <-- this prevent colonist cheating on their spouse by a lot.
Diversity of thought: Intense bigotry
Slavery: Acceptable

Gameplay wise, Just build in a mountain hole. Try to research precision assault rifle asap. Plant a ton of Healroot as well. All schedule are sleep all day long but work at dusk to dawn. Tame some Horse for pack, Husky for Hauling. Raid every outpost that pop up on the map (Unless it's your allied outpost) and loot everything. On your raider team, 1 extra cook is recommend because human corpse weight a lot. So chop them down to flesh and leather to carry them easier. Time is very important for this ideology. Never start the raid Before 18hr. The fight in the dark precept make colonist untouchable at night but helpless at day.

The only challenge on this run is to defend against raider at day and have to goes outside (Breacher mostly). It is preferable to make a choke point at many spot out of your mountain. Have someone to distract them as much as possible (Psycast berserk, Insanity lance, Doomsday, etc) to buy sometime until the night fall so you could massacre them later. 

[khun_poo]

What's everyone's picks for the strongest, most debilitating, and most fun memes or precepts?

I think Tunneler is overall the strongest single meme, since it's got some good upsides, and not much downside. Living in small spaces, with quick tunneling, growing mushrooms on every available square inch for free? Yes please! Nudism's probably the most debilitating for a single meme, since it's just mood debuffs unless you restrict your pawns to temperate climates or take changes with death. The most fun I've had so far, has been with Tree Connection, since the guar trees seem very space-efficient compared to other crops, and grow without problem on sand, giving a nice boose to extreme desert colonies!  : )

I forgot to mention that Nudism meme could combo with Pain and virtue or Tree hugger to get your colonist free temperature resistant iirc. It's help a lot early game.

[AileTheAlien]

The tough temperature precept is actually just for mood, not actual temperature range or resistance to heatstroke or hypothermia. (Just tested right now with my existing game, and a brand new one with the right precepts. Same temperature range on naked colonists: 16 - 26 C ) I too, thought it would be a lot more useful. ^^;

[khun_poo]

Awww dang. That was misinformation on my part! sorry for that 

[josefrees]

 transhumanism biosculpture seems pretty nice. Throw someone in and they get healed plus a permanent injury healed. Also ability to give long term mood buff and de aging. Takes a long time though so it doesn't Pay off until you are established