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[Yoink]

Some aspects of the personality/relationship system were pretty rigid and immersion-breaking, but the game's a WIP so that's understandable.
Always kind of annoying how people continue to be horrified by death and violence when they're supposedly hardened veterans, for one thing. Also I think a fair amount of the relationship system isn't very transparent... I had this one colonist who was pretty much universally disliked, despite having no social traits. He'd be constantly spewing insults, which was fine by me, but I had no idea why he was like that. O.o

[Girlinhat]

Usually when something like that is put it, it's somewhat badly, and then 1-2 updates later will get shuffled to make sense.  Like how people could be younger than their child.  Next update was like 'yeah you're right, let's fix that'.

[Majestic7]

Being younger in relative age but older in absolute years just makes a great story and is a realistic effect from relativistic space travel.

[martinuzz]

"you just married your great-great-great-grandmom"

[martinuzz]

Catsplosion ahoy.

"a group of cats joins"

SERIOUSLY? Ten cats? I just bought 1 cat from the last caravan. That doesn't mean I put up a crazy old cat lady sign for all cats to flock to 
Ah well, we be eating cats then.

EDIT: Oh gods. One of the cats is named Trump.

I guess we be eating Trump

[ChairmanPoo]

One of my colonists got her ear shot off. Her husband got a negative -15 though in the social screen about her, 'disfigured'.
A few days later he divorced her.

That's ... harsh. He's now flirting with the new recruit. She's all ears.

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[Karnewarrior]

Catsplosion ahoy.

"a group of cats joins"

SERIOUSLY? Ten cats? I just bought 1 cat from the last caravan. That doesn't mean I put up a crazy old cat lady sign for all cats to flock to 
Ah well, we be eating cats then.

EDIT: Oh gods. One of the cats is named Trump.

I guess we be eating Trump

Build a wall to keep the cats out.

[martinuzz]

OUCH!

I mistakenly thought that slaughtering a tamed boomalope wouldn't explode it.

[Girlinhat]

Being younger in relative age but older in absolute years just makes a great story and is a realistic effect from relativistic space travel.

Agreed, and is possible, but for a while it was possible to have children who were biologically and chronologically older than their parent.  As in "I was born in the year 2115 and my son was born in the year 2108."

[n9103]

OUCH!

I mistakenly thought that slaughtering a tamed boomalope wouldn't explode it.

Yea, they're always either hunted or sicced in my games. Siccing them is great, but often I don't have the colonist-hours to devote to enough of them to make them useful. Just a couple will get gunned down before they get close enough.

[Salmeuk]

After a second herd of alphabeavers arrived, I thought that it would go like the first time - Spud, with the rifle, had made quick work of the pests that first encounter. However, this second herd fell into a frenzy after just two shots and downed Spud in a matter of seconds.

I mean, that's bad enough, a downed colonist on the other side of an angry beaver mob. Then, a literal lightning strike. . .

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That has got to be the worst way to die. Mauled by beaver, then crisped by a wildfire.

[martinuzz]

Heh, a message popped up that one of my married pawns has started an affair with another pawn. Apparently the spouse is immediatly aware, getting a -70 relationship penalty to her husband. Big momma is watching you, buddy.

EDIT: Heh, he still bangs his wife, with a -7 'wants to sleep with lover' thought.

[Chiefwaffles]

GUESS WHAAAAT
Yup. Alpha 16 is  now on the public unstable branch. Accessable on steam by Properties -> Betas -> Version dropdown. The developer says that if you want the full & complete experience without massive bugs, you should wait until the actual release.

But that sure isn't going to stop me!

[Majestic7]

Massive bugs? Infestation size and intensity tripled for this release, I bet.

[Broseph Stalin]

Just loaded up the unstable release and generated an entire globe. Pretty amazing before you even get into the game part of the game.

Then I dev'd up a 10 man colony with charge rifles, packed a nice survivial ration lunch, and formed a caravan to attack a tribal settlement a few hours away. That opened up a whole new map generated for the encounter, they had a few wooden sleeping areas and a larger sleeping area without permanent beds. It was all heated by torches and they had a store house full of pemmican and smokeleaf. I restricted my fighters to a small area far away from their camp and started cutting down trees and building a small wooden structure to protect from the cold and assembled an incendiary mortar. Once they started sleeping I opened up with the mortar, setting fire to their structure. They don't seem to have firefighting ai so they lost almost everything very quickly. After that I sent half my force to harass them from the front and the other half to blow a hole in a wall and create a flank. I got the alert that the outpost had been destroyed and then, deciding it was nicer than my current map, abandoned my old site and settled there.

This is pretty awesome. Since you have pretty free access to your normal tools during an attack I'm thinking about hostile outpost mining. Sending in an armed force to build a secure camp and drill for minerals where we aren't welcome.