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[forsaken1111]

It's nonsense because it ruins it for me. Being part of the backstory doesn't make it not nonsense.

That just means you dislike it. You not liking something doesn't make it nonsense. It makes perfect sense in the context of the game's setting and technology that someone could be suspended for any amount of time using that technology. Rimworld takes place far in the future and the tech as been around for a long long time.

Anyway I did a few quick searches and didn't see an existing mod that removes the chronological age. Perhaps that would be a good mod project for you?

[smjjames]

The whole 'asleep for a thousand or more years' does get a little silly, doesn't bother me much though.

The only thing that does bug be a bit is that there are uplifted animals mentioned but don't exist and modified humans (whether through genetic engineering or evolutionary pressure) don't exist outside of super soldiers and everybody seems to be a baseline human.

[scriver]

It's nonsense because it ruins it for me. Being part of the backstory doesn't make it not nonsense.

That just means you dislike it.

You don't say.

[Dorsidwarf]

Rimworld is set in an incredibly distant future, don't forget. Also when you blast off the end text explicitly mentions that the ship AI might just pick a random planet and *wait thousands of years until someone colonises it and turns it into a Glitterworld.

[smjjames]

Are there any mods which add in those various genetically modified humans and those changed from evolutionary presures that the fiction primer mentions? What with the whole 'our interstellar descendants are the aliens' thing it has going.

I did find the beastman tribes one in the steam workshop. Bit surprised it didn't include uplifted primates or monkeys in there.

Gonna try to do the first runthrough without mods, whether successfully or until my colony gets killed by something, heh.

[Yoink]

So, how is Combat Extended these days? I noticed the new version finally hit the workshop, but I haven't enabled it yet. Can't decide if I want to or not, really...

[Blue_Dwarf]

I found this bit on biological vs chronological age if anyone's still curious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/59cuec/the_wise_and_ancient_thrumbo/d97h7v2/?context=3

[scriver]

Thanks a lot! That was super relevant to my interests. I think I can use that hypersleep commonality thing to mod out hypersleep or change it so that it's like just a few years more than real age at most.

[Yoink]

My current game has been going on for a while, with two fairly established colonies as well as a small party consisting of our best doctor, my longsword-wielding starting colonist Frenchy and his husky off rescuing some "incapacitated refugee" dipshit who has turned out to be pretty much useless but oh well at least they got some decent loot from the bunch of tribals who ambushed them in the process. 

Anyway, I just had a caravan show up whilst another caravan is still hanging around at my first base. Both of them are combat suppliers, and as soon as the second one arrived I paused the game and excitedly checked their info, determined they were from different factions, scrolled through the 'factions' screen and determined... they're enemies!
This realisation came just as the first big riff kicked in on the album I'm listening to. I'm so excited. I feel like a young lad on Christmas morn. I even just purchased a triple rocket launcher, which I can no doubt test out on any survivors of this impending dust-up! Oh boy this oughta be great. I should probably get my colonists to a safe distance. Heh.

Let's get ready to rrrrrrumblllllle!   


Edit: Well, in terms of dead, Southwest Thforussia (the second group to arrive) seems to have come out on top, considering the Hatoum Coalition have three dead to their one. But, the Thforussians have several severely wounded amongst their number, who will likely collapse and be left to die shortly after leaving the map - assuming the game tracks that sort of thing when it comes to traders - and one guy left riddled with bullets and buckshot in the middle of the battlefield. Hatoum has only two walking wounded, one of whom is in no immediate danger of bleeding out.

I'm gonna huck a rocket or six at them as they retreat, though, since apparently Southwest Thforussia have friendly relations with my faction whereas Hatoum is at -20. I probably didn't have enough guest beds for a horde of tourists or made them sleep on a dirt floor or something I don't know. Let's see how this goes! I'm not using Combat Extended but rockets should still be pretty brutal, one would imagine.

[martinuzz]

I can now confirm that constructed walls and flooring under an overhead mountain does NOT prevent hive spawn events.
Luckily it spawned in the bedroom of my plasteel knife and shield belt using melee 15 cannibal, who managed to stand his ground against two megaspiders until backup arrived.

[Akura]

I just started a new game myself. Next to a mountain. One of the caves has a hive and some megaspiders in it, but far away from my camp. Should I be worried?

This run is going slow since I have nobody with decent mining skill except a pirate torturer who I beat up and am trying to convince to join(she has a few other useful skills as well). Also, she's taking the room I was planning to put a research table in, so no research yet.

[n9103]

As of the .16 version, insectoids don't stray far from their hives. However, hives *do* spread out over time.
I *think* the hives are limited to spreading to connected overhead mountain tiles, but I haven't tested this.
I haven't seen any news that stated hives were overhauled, so this is probably still true.

All that means that while it's not critical at the moment, they will become a stronger force over time, and you will have to deal with even more of them when they eventually spread in range.

[martinuzz]

Insects are nasty not only for packing a punch, but also because they can dig through walls. Build constructed walls if they are digging towards your base (they only do that when they are very near). Your colonists can repair walls much faster than the megaspiders can dig through them (but they won't repair natural rock walls). You might want to get a mod though which allows you to change below which level colonists are allowed to repair walls, unless you want them to queue a job for every half procent of damage the wall takes.

[Yoink]

I had a game once where there was a hive on my map, far off on the other side... I basically just happily ignored it until eventually a large, heavily-armed outlander caravan marched straight into the canyon it was in on their way off the map. I only noticed what had happened when the last two surviving bugs (only smaller ones, thankfully) came skittering over to attack my colonists.
Judging by the aftermath it must have been quite an entertaining bloodbath. Suffice to say, there was loot a-plenty to be had!    

[martinuzz]

I think I just found out how to prevent the dreaded ZZZZZZzzzt event from causing fires.
I installed power switches between my power grid and the batteries.
Looks like these confine the Zzzzzzt to only draining those batteries that are connected to the grid. There was no broken power line, nor fire.