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25 Feb

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by Gwyllie

Tynan please i would like to hear a definitive answer from you regarding DLC-requirement flag for mods, not just speculations from random people.

If there was/is mod that used some content that is now in the DLC directly or via concept, is it going to be flagged as DLC-required?

Is there any limit to stuff people can mod and use without the DLC?

Connected to previous questions, is this DLC in any form limiting to modders in terms of having to actually have to own the DLC? Is in clear theory possible to recreate this DLC as a free mod or will modder hit big wall "Buy here"?

I dont really want RimWorld to end up like Paradox or Bethesda games where one has to own DLC´s for the mods to work in a first place because devs decided that some features are at premium and unmoddable without paying first.

I am not saying that i dont want to buy your DLC or anything. Its just matter of principle regarding freedom of modding and using mods. I still think ...

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Unless a mod directly builds on Royalty content there's no reason for it to require Royalty. I expect essentially all current mods and 95% of future mods to work with or without Royalty.

I made sure during the design process to reject ideas that would change the 'bases' of the game and thus create expansion/mod conflicts. So Royalty is a clean drop-in addition of content. No split community because that sucks.

Now, there is the issue of 'clawout' mods. Some things are part of Royalty and if a mod uses them the players would need the expansion too. Things like royal titles and mechanoid clusters. It may be technically possible to hack up a mod that hooks into the code for these to essentially claw content out of the expansion and into a mod. I hope modders don't do this and if they do we'll likely have to take the mod down. There are tons of ways to expand the game, so there's no reason to be pulling our content out like that. I hope modders can build on the syst...

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How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by DarthGrandma

I believe they added ducks/horses/etc from Vanilla Expanded into 1.1, which was, of course, free.

Yeah, we redesigned them but the art is directly from Vanilla Animals. We hired Oskar (who made it) to make all the art for Royalty too.

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by jstank2

I remember the early days of Rim World and how involved the players were through the entire process all the way up until the point where Tynan stopped putting out his daily changelog notes. (Not sure what he called it) . It was always a daily ritual coming home from a dull day at work and immediately digging through the forums for little nuggets of what was changing or could change, what I agreed with and what I didn't, what I thought should happen versus what other people thought about the same topic. I really enjoyed being part of that process and even sometimes getting a reply from Tynan himself! I really got the feeling that he was listening to us for the entire time and it felt great. This was at the same time where other games would be stumbling over themselves to find that magic formula of the early access model.

The secret is that the players know best! If something is obviously out of whack about 500 people are going to notice it immediately and tell the develope...

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Well, FWIW as /u/DarthGrandma noted we did do a ton of testing and back and forth with the internal testers. It's just that I wanted to avoid some of the noise and heartbreak that can happen if you do this kind of thing in public. I.e. In game dev, if you're shooting for high quality, features will always change a lot over time, and sometimes get cut. But if we developed things in public, some people look at change logs as promises and get angry if anything is cut. But we can't be forced to never get rid of anything due to public pressure; it would ruin the iterative design process.

Royalty is out now and it's done, but there's no reason we can't do something else with it in a free update in future. There will definitely be a hotfix in the coming weeks to fix any bugs that come up (thankfully nothing...

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How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by wolfman1911

I don't think that I've ever seen a modder that wasn't ecstatic that their mod got incorporated into the base game. I even heard a rumor that the Vanilla Extended guy got hired by Ludeon, and that had something to do with his livestock mod getting incorporated, but I can't verify that.

Not a rumor - it's in the 1.1 and Royalty announcement!

Oskar Potocki helped us out making art for Royalty - he was the artist on the project so all the new apparel and stuff is his. He also contributed animals art from his vanilla animals mod to the 1.1 update.

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by tearblast

Hey will you ever update the fiction primer to go along with the new DLC? I loved how it set up rim world and would love to see how it would incorporate the dlc

I actually wrote a giant doc long ago about the Empire fiction, maybe I'll clean it up and add it to the fiction primer. Thanks.

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by Parokki

Can you confirm that the sight of money pouring into your bank account is making you feel warm and fuzzy inside and that we're good boys and girls for buying the DLC?

I can definitely confirm that. You all are amazing and I'm thankful.

Rimworld discord now

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Originally posted by Sierra419

If I get the DLC, can I choose to not have it activated during a playthrough? Like, if I wanted the vanilla experience again for a new colony, could I disable the DLC?

Absolutely, it's easy to turn on and off.

You can also keep it on but disable royal progression quests (and just keep the Empire faction as a normal faction and keep all the new quest/challenge/implant/research/enemy content).

Rimworld discord now

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Originally posted by Blaust

Adding the DLC to an existing save seems to only add one location for the royal faction, unless a mod I had caused that somehow...?

Yeah, it won't add full settlements since settlements are already generated. The faction will still work fine though.


24 Feb

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by cortanakya

So... Vague question in the hopes of a vague answer... Is there any more DLC planned? I'd understand if you didn't want to answer to avoid committing to something but hey, it can't hurt to ask!

It's a bit early to commit either way on that I'm afraid.

DLC quest construction size requirements.

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Holy crap! In 5 months of testing nobody got close to a monument like that. Thanks for reporting, we'll add some sensible maximum to these.

How the hell is this fair to Ludeon Studios?

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Originally posted by Elvenstar32

I mean I was actually impressed how I got excited about the new features of the royalty DLC.

Mechanoid bases? Can't remember a good mod for that.

Quests? Yeah I mean there are mods that events/quests but not the ones that are added by the DLC. The hosting quests especially have nothing to do with the hopistality mod and I am particularly hyped about the construction quests.

New way to end the game? We had the one from rimgenetics and kind of save our ship 2 I think, this is another one that is achievable in a completely different way, that's interesting damn.

New tech level that mixes old tech and futuristic tech? Find me one good mod that has this retrofuturistic theme, because I don't remember seeing it. I've seen medieval mods, glittertech mods, dozens of other glittertech/spacer level tech but steampunk or whatever type of punk this tech is, nope.

Pyschic powers? I know only one mod that does that, it's been released in november of 2019 a...

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You're right about Psychic Awakening.

We started developing Royalty alongside 1.1 in late 2018. Implemented psycasts through summer 2019. Psychic Awakening came out November 23 and I think I heard about it around December-January. I was worried for a few seconds until I read their ability list and realized there's basically zero overlap :). Still looks like a cool mod though.

RimWorld - Royalty Launch Trailer

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Originally posted by Deathcommand

I made the mistake of getting it from steam the first time. If I get the expansion from your website can I use it on my steam base game?

Oddly, you actually could, I think, though it's not officially supported.

But very soon you'll be able to register the DRM-free copy on Steam at rimworldgame.com/getmygame - our web dev is finalizing that system.