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This delighted me.

I love seeing the drama from another point of view!

From all of us, you're extremely welcome!

Possible. Some games do this. It's complex, though, and looks kind of ugly and noisy.

Right. Comprehensibility comes first. So we don't hide things behind other things (imagine how irritating this could be).

This constrains the art since it means that the art has to try hard not to cover adjacent cells. Which means the trees are quite small compared to what you would want them to be for beauty alone.

This reskin looks great, but like a lot of similar projects it gains a lot by violating constraints that are put in for design, clarity, or comprehensibility reasons (and not just hiding things - there are other problems as well like noisiness and scannability, visual hierarchy, etc). The costs of that aren't obvious on a screenshot, but would become palpable in extended play. In case anyone's wondering why we didn't do this kind of thing in vanilla. RimWorld sacrifices a lot in order to play as well as possible.

I made that screenshot! Now you can eat it! Happy birthday!

I like this! It's different from how I'd imagine it but very cool and well-executed.

There will always be excessive wealth in late-game at a certain point, that's just the nature of how capital works. We can't involuntarily trash peoples' wealth. The game will always break down past a certain point. I have solutions to this but they're kind of involved (and in consideration).

This was more about alleviating the problem to some degree, not solving it entirely. E.g. You might have tons of flake, but converting that to other usable materials may be tricky. Versus getting massive straight deliveries of plasteel and steel and components - hyper-practical resources.

Clusters generally have a big building in the middle with some loot in it (EMI dynamo or whatever), so they're supposed to handle that role. In principle. I've no doubt there is room for improvement in terms of the tuning.

So there's some missing information and zombie memes polluting this discussion, figured I'd try to shed some light.

It had nothing to do with mech assemblers. This was just one of those notions that someone invented that spreads like a meme, but it has no actual source. Mech assemblers were solved just by limiting them, we would never do something ridiculous like completely rebalance an entire enemy type for a problem that could be solved so much more narrowly.

It was related to the general problem of large late-game mechanoid threats almost entirely obviating the need for players to have any economy at all, with the added problem that harder difficulty settings were in many ways easier because you got more resource deliveries from bigger raids. Economy was completely broken, and difficulties were inverted.

We added resource rewards from the raids. They're assigned to one of the mechs (more if necessary). They'll drop piles of plasteel or components. Is this...

They also have 2 uses now instead of 1.

EDIT: We changed it to 2 not 3 :p

I love the details in this. You can spend 60 seconds looking at it and discovering new things the whole time.

Also has me laughing pretty hard!

Colonists definitely have some specific moral beliefs, definitely. They make perfect sense for some backstories. Less so for others. This is an area of the game I've long wanted to improve.

Honestly it would be better if the responded to more things, not less, but I see your point.

The person is refugee. That means he invited himself, just like people fleeing danger who enter a country outside a border crossing. You can take those people who are now inside your community and banish them, or kill them, but there is no mind-control wall you can use to simply prevent them from entering your community. They walk in, and you have to choose how to respond.

You're not forced to help them at all. You can immediately kill or banish them. They're not willing to leave since they have nowhere else to go, so there is no "politely ask them to leave" option.

For this event, there is NO choice, and it's not a dilemma, because a dilemma is built around a choice.

There is a choice. You can banish them, or kill them, or whatever.

We could alter the UI to make it look different (i.e. instead of banish them as a colonist, you reject them as a joiner, with the same mood outcomes), but that's just re-labeling what's already happening. Maybe we'll do that since this has come up before. I think it would solve the concern. It's just a framing issue. Framing changes solve game design problems all the time.

"If I make a choice to make and sell space-meth, they're ok with that. If we get raiders attack, and I leave them all to bleed out, they're ok with that, too. If a slaver comes past, and I don't pay to rescue any of the slaves, my colonists don't bat an eyelid. If I sell luciferium to a backwards tribe, knowing it will slowly and agonisingly kill whoever takes it, my colonists are ...

They came to you for help. You have the choice of helping them, leaving them to die, harvesting their organs.

But whatever you do, your colonists know what happened and will respond psychologically to the outcome. You can't just make everyone pretend it never happened.

This is as designed. It's, a moral dilemma, and a choice between emotions and resources, and a piece of story. What kind of colony are you?

It would probably be a good thing to be honest.

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