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Variety? Now do rimworld.

foobiekr 6y ago
Rimworld has had so many wonderful moments that have stuck with me even though I haven't touched it since the alphas. Because one of the mechanics of the game is the colonists can lose their minds due to stress, where usually they strip naked and grab a gun and start shooting people or run toward the nearest living thing and try to beat it to death, managing that is important. Anyway, one of the early builds had this bug where sufficient terror/horror stats were enough outweigh any degree of stress. So the solution to a happy colony was hundreds of occupied gibbet cages placed in rows as a sort of path guide to/from the entrances to the cafeteria, bunk houses, etc. so colonists would constantly be exposed to them. If you filled them with barbarians or whatever you could catch (sometimes your own people if the headcount started to get above your food production...) you'd have a nice "happy" colony. I'm sure this is long removed or fixed, but it just struck me as amazing at the time...
jgalecki 6y ago
Hey there, author here. We took a look at Rimworld on our podcast (https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/rimworld https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/rimworld - gif art by me). Loved that game - it was on my top 10 games list a couple years back. Its focus on storytelling really sets it apart from some of the other base-builders.
kuang_eleven 6y ago
I really wanted to get into Rimworld, but it mostly felt like a stripped down Dwarf Fortress... Even so, the base building was fun, the endless raids less so...
- mysterydip 6y ago
  I think for some people that's the appeal: they want Dwarf Fortress style storytelling but the game's UI/graphics/etc are too difficult to learn/understand. So they are willing to give up some complexity of interactivity and world for a game they can play.
  - kuang_eleven 6y ago
    I wonder how much the Steam release for Dwarf Fortress will help that? Tarn is explicitly focusing on a default iconset and better UI, although the release date is set as "time is subjective"...

Rimworld has had so many wonderful moments that have stuck with me even though I haven't touched it since the alphas. Because one of the mechanics of the game is the colonists can lose their minds due to stress, where usually they strip naked and grab a gun and start shooting people or run toward the nearest living thing and try to beat it to death, managing that is important. Anyway, one of the early builds had this bug where sufficient terror/horror stats were enough outweigh any degree of stress. So the solution to a happy colony was hundreds of occupied gibbet cages placed in rows as a sort of path guide to/from the entrances to the cafeteria, bunk houses, etc. so colonists would constantly be exposed to them. If you filled them with barbarians or whatever you could catch (sometimes your own people if the headcount started to get above your food production...) you'd have a nice "happy" colony. I'm sure this is long removed or fixed, but it just struck me as amazing at the time...

jgalecki 6y ago

Hey there, author here. We took a look at Rimworld on our podcast (https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/rimworld https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/rimworld - gif art by me). Loved that game - it was on my top 10 games list a couple years back. Its focus on storytelling really sets it apart from some of the other base-builders.

kuang_eleven 6y ago

I really wanted to get into Rimworld, but it mostly felt like a stripped down Dwarf Fortress... Even so, the base building was fun, the endless raids less so...

mysterydip 6y ago
I think for some people that's the appeal: they want Dwarf Fortress style storytelling but the game's UI/graphics/etc are too difficult to learn/understand. So they are willing to give up some complexity of interactivity and world for a game they can play.
- kuang_eleven 6y ago
  I wonder how much the Steam release for Dwarf Fortress will help that? Tarn is explicitly focusing on a default iconset and better UI, although the release date is set as "time is subjective"...