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Sorry about that - we'll address this.
Sorry about that - we'll address this.
Thank you Kiwi Rampage.
Thanks for the feedback! Could I ask you a few more things?
I'm interested in tuning the wealth thresholds for quest arriving/completion.
Thanks for all who played it and are willing to answer.
I haven’t gotten to this point in 1.3 yet, but I’d have to say that starting from zero research is probably going too far (if that is how it works), considering that in every scenario you at least start out with something. Maybe keep some randomly selected low tier research, or let the player choose a few to carry over. Just as long as it’s a reset to the equivalent of a new colony, not a reset to being even farther behind than tribals.
You're right. I am planning to have research go back to more or less something like a classic crashlanded start. Zero is a bit much.
I find that the charitable quests ? marks don't appear until the people are already leaving the map which makes it impossible for my colonists to catch up and give them the goods. You should be able to give them the items as soon as they appear on the map.
This was addressed in today's build - should be solved now.
I remember when DLC was called expansion packs, and you actually got a healthy extension to your game with new content. Nowadays all you get are small little packs of items or a handful of quests for half the cost of what an actual expansion would do. I think it was elder scrolls oblivion that had a few expansion packs that actually added new areas to explore, a bunch of quests and items, maybe a new class or race, etc. MMOs still kind of follow this rule with their expansions.
It's just sad that in nearly every aspect of your life, you are being nickel and dimed. You can't just buy something, you have to sign up for a service...
This is why we always call our expansion packs expansion packs!
It kind of annoys me that Steam forcibly labels them "DLC". This isn't a weapon skin.
Thanks!
I have always gone by the principle that the expansions shouldn't interfere with the core game in the slighest. Nothing should ever be visible but locked off, or unbalanced without expansion content, or even refer to expansion content.
We even use expansion-specific text patches to remove references to expansion mechanics in vanilla content. E.g. The description for the 'kind' trait is different with Ideology.
Thanks for the reply! I think it's fine for gameplay purposes to reset the research tree, lets you have something else to work on whilst still having continuity and having fully kitted out pawns and animals is a great help.
I also don't really mind harder raids since well, having valuables means you are a more attractive target but I would suggest if it's possible maybe soft capping expectations of your new colonists so they don't immediately demand stuff that's impossible to build. They were the ones who probably made the decision to sell so having high expectations and desire for rituals in a brand new place seems strange. Maybe a separate expectation category like slaves have that caps out expectations to low for some time to show the pawns are optimistic for having made a very successful colony.
I'm going to review how expectations play out here.
It would be good if I could get a savegame just after archonexus restart to inspect the game state. It'd be great if you (or anyone else reading this) could join the official dev discord and post one!
I had to tweet this one.
I love this.
Anima tree went really bonsai-style!
It's funny, but after a recent patch, this problem no longer appears in new colonies for me. NOW I HAVE ANOTHER BUG that randomly causes the fps to drop to 30 or lower for no goddamn reason.
Life just mocks me. Thank you for responding btw, you are one of the best developers.
We've love to hear about the new issue as well, especially if you can get it without mods! That Discord link should still work if you're willing.
These people went from crafting hi-tech armor, flatscreen TVs and advanced powerplants to "make stick to throw rock at". I even took the guy who researched everything with me. This is really demotivating.
You also lose all progress with relics....
It's worth noting that in the Crashlanded or Rich Explorer scenario, they already had all that high-tech stuff before the game started in their home planets or on the ship. They they got dropped off by a ship in a new place on this planet. Then they have the research everything. This is basically the same situations as the archonexus restart.
Not that it's exactly clear what 'research' means in this game physically anyway. It never made sense. Is it peoples' memory? That makes no sense because many of them have backstories about being scientists so they should already have the tech, plus you keep your tech if your researcher dies. Is it some kind of document or blueprint? That makes no sense because no such object exists in the world - you can migrate naked to a new map and still keep your research. In truth it's just an abstracted game mechanic, like so much else, and if you want you can pick it apart a hundred ways but there's no point because it's not harming peoples' pl...
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In fact, your solution of swapping out the wives nightly is basically what these people do in real life: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/21/religion.gender
That's not to say these outcomes are universal. Human behavior is extremely diverse. But, from my research, these seem to be common patterns pretty much globally.
So some amount of struggle here was anticipated and designed-in.
That said, perhaps we need...
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Can anyone send us a savegame of this happening? We really need it to reproduce and fix the problem. Here is the easiest place: https://discord.gg/mdfgVN4W
Agreed, but it should be made into a unique rebuff for the sake of clarity to players. Maybe even make it a bit worse?
-6 Forbidden to sleep with lover. “I want to sleep with my lover, but my peers disallow it. If only they could understand…”
I came to the same conclusion and that's where we'll end up in the end, I think. This is more of a quick fix for now and we'll come back and refine/rebuild it later in a better form.
It seems to be fixed! Major props for putting in hours even on the weekend for stuff like this, too.
Awesome thanks for replying!
Immediately after this happened, I called down another Bestowing Ceremony that was actually interrupted by a social fight starting between one of the guards and the bestower himself, but when they finished nobody was downed. Instead of boarding the shuttle they all wandered off the map instead, leaving the empty shuttle behind
I do have Harmony, Won hair_women, Won hair_men, and Pick Up and Haul mods installed but they probably don't have anything to do with this.
Update: Once all of the people in the original shuttle starved, they all got kicked out of the shuttle and the Royalty empire full on declared war on me- and the people in the second shuttle who hadn't made it off of the map yet became hostile and turned around- but instead of actually attacking my colonists, they ONLY THEN ran to and boarded their shuttle.
Sound like a bug for sure. We'll fix it! Thanks for reporting and sorry that got in.
I feel like a little difficulty indicator for each meme would be helpful for letting players know what they're getting into, and making sure they understand they're not in for a perfectly balanced experience
Maybe a little blurb about it like what you have for the scenarios, off the top of my head the rich explorer start where you're solo says something along the lines of "your starting colonist will probably lack some skills, so early game will be tough"
Yes. The "impact" rating sort of does this, but it's a bit different.
I thought of showing a rating assembled from challenge setting, biome, scenario, and ideoligion. It'd take some doing to get right but it's a good idea.
Why did you nerf the mighty Thrumbo? Since "damaged" animals produce less leather a single Thrumbo now only gives something like 105 leather... I understand the change in general but the Thrumbo should have been an exception. I somehow don't feel like it makes sense for it to drop ~1 duster worth of wool seeing as it's kind of huge. It's not exactly feasible for most colonies to have a Thrumbo breeding program so it's basically just a flat nerf to Thrumbo hunting.
Leather amounts were increased overall so the damaged-target penalty should balance that out to some degree.
Also note you can tame and slaughter them.
Though TBH I can't remember exactly how much leather thrumbos gave in 1.2. Giving more would make a lot of sense though. It is kind of a special thing.
Is it intentional that dryads of the defensive/offensive type sleep in during a night raid? Even when I make my people go into fight mode they are still sleeping.
We're gonna look into this.