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I was quite hesitant on buying Royalty, because, well, i was content with vanilla game (modded to hell, of course). I had many mods, and even Vanilla Events Expanded too, which added new events.
But finally, 1.2 patch arrived, and I decided to make new colony. Out of pure curiousity I bought Royalty and OH f*ck, THAT'S AMAZING!
It adds so much, like noble stuff, psycasting, but main, absolutely huge and mind-boggingly great improvement are the quests. Take vanilla game - quests are rather... boring. But Royalty quests? f*ck no. They are really engaging.
Defend crashed shuttle for few hours before other shuttle come to pick up survivors? Nice.
Host group of refugess that actually work and help your colony before leaving? I am a nice person, so YES! They sent me infinite chemreactor and some expensive implant later, so here's that too!
Host some noble dude who does nothing, but sightsees and eats your stuff in your colony for a while, and Empire pays you for that with goodies and honor? Acceptable.
Man, they even offered me to assist them in raiding a pirate base. And they sent a GODDAMN SHUTTLE TO PICK ME UP LIKE YOUR FRENCH GIRL! Not only that, they brought me back too :D
That's only fraction of good stuff I enjoyed so far. Honestly, those new quests are so good, that old ones just pale in comparison. But not all of them are good and easy. Some are f*cking terrifying, like when mechanoids set up psychic droner few tiles away from your colony, so you have to get caravan, bring lots of fighters (I had 1 centipede, 1 lancer and 2 scythers defend it while i had 4 people in my colony) and pray that you take it down before it drives your entire colony mad. That's a very hard one, and I only managed to destroy that droner because one of my pawns was Acolyte and had access to trooper squad permit (who all died anyway, but they distracted mechs for a while).
Anyway, Royalty is SO GOOD, I can't go back. Strongly suggest getting it, if you haven't yet.
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