RimWorld - a game about worlds on the rim of the galaxy, not licking buttholes

[Oilspill Battery]

I think for me it is about adjusting Rimworld into a fun game, which after your first few dozen hours you will realise it is not, it is trying to fight you and make your life miserable, yes even you Randy Random. Mods can smooth over some of the issues for example you may use character editor to ensure at least one of your pawns on start isnt an absolute smoothbrain and is useful or else your game will drag. Not fail, just drag, it won't be fun.

You should also be going into the difficulty settings and changing things until it feels challenging and right for you, for me it was the size of the raids as soon as you get at least five dollars worth of wealth. I also stop mortars from being spawned, I never used them, I fight everyone out in the field with about 50-70% threat size. And if the enemy spawns mortars in? Dev mode > Destroy. 1v1 me idc.

"What's that? They're manufacturing whiskey? We should send 90% of the worlds population in raids within a year with zero consequence to ourselves"

Yeah makes zero sense, one part of Rimworld they need to work on is the simulation of things OFFSCREEN rather than onscreen, because it is really not good, you're making that 300 person army each year living on two gibbet cages and 200 pemmican? Uh huh. It's poor, and it's the last step in making Rimworld truly revolutionary. (That or multithreading)

Reduce raid sizes, give a +1 to happiness, set colony death and enemy death on downed to 0.8 so its not every time, disable unwavering prisoners. etc whatever, it's your game, the way default rimworld plays with killboxes, killzones is frankly embaressing and I got bored of that quickly after my first two full runs. Imagine playing diablo but every time a unique or good rare dropped you had to trash it because oh no the game will get hard. Please, wealth management sucks its the oblivion/skyim level scaling of difficulty there's a better middleground.

Also I have 1000 hours in this shit. I could talk about all it's flaws but this game is still great (Also yes you can own the base game on steam and then pirate the dlc, figure it out)

Yeah Zzzts used to be real annoying because hidden conduits didn't exist then. So you either mod it out or eat shit whenever it proced then. Nowadays you just pay the extra steel to install hidden conduits and forget it even exists.

I play heavily modded with a lot of settings adjusted and whenever I play vanilla rimworld I get shocked at how much of a huge dragfest of a grindy slog it is. You're already strapped for steel and the solution to not have explosions randomly occur and destroy half your shit is to pay even more steel.

Everything from construction, to harvesting, to building to crafting. Everytime I play I create a work drone pawn with augments and maxed out labour stats becaues waiting 1 irl hour for my starter pawns to build a square box doesn't seem very appealing.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Someone made a mod that adds further customization to weapons, making even the same weapon feel unique from another. Change colors, add special modifications, feels like a more vanilla friendly version of that mod that adds attachments.