PREPARE CAREFULLY RIMWORLD IDEOLOGY MOD
PREPARE CAREFULLY RIMWORLD IDEOLOGY MODS

Static defenses should be substantially useful, just nowhere near guaranteed safety and victory. And that's fine.Д«ut really with killboxes and the like, of course they should be some level of discouraged defending against raids and the like in Rimworld should be more than 'I drafted my pawns, sent them to the killbox, and safely eliminated each enemy funneled inside.' But the consistent direction development in Rimworld of counteingr these kinds of strategies affects way more than just killboxes. There will always be people who grind down your game/media to its bare fundamentals and utterly destroy it. Their response was in the writing of the second season, which is considered a lot worse. Whether it's trying to always beat the latest meta used by power-players, or something like what happened with Westworld: the showrunners got frustrated by the fact that a small minority of people were able to pick up on foreshadowing and predict the plot of the first season. The way I see it, it's pretty much always a mistake to try to 'beat' the power-users of your piece of media. My problem isn't the difficulty but really just how the game is set on making your defenses absolutely useless.

PREPARE CAREFULLY RIMWORLD IDEOLOGY MODS

I do tend to shy away from a lot of more defense-oriented mods (like embrasures yeah) due to how they nullify difficulty in combat. The mods that try to address that (e.g., Faction Resources) are underwhelming.Д®eeehh. Fundamentally, Rimworld is designed to screw you over and is inherently arbitrary: there's no simulation going on to determine whether factions can actually afford to send raids your way unceasingly, it's just a function of colony wealth + time + a little RNG. I remember way back when light affected accuracy and you could lure enemies into a a well lit hallway while your colonists opened fire from their shrouded bunkers, those were the days.ДЄnyway, I think the problem is a lot of players want the illusion of difficulty while actually not struggling at all, just look at how popular embrasures are despite completely trivializing combat. fine, but I've honestly had more fun lately playing with the difficulty dropped down and engaging with the combat system more rather than just playing tower spike trap defense. Tynan adding new enemy types and behaviors to counter it, so I don't have many complaints there - I probably spent 300 hours playing Merciless with mountain bases and killboxes and manipulating insectoid spawns to completely avoid any losses which was. Regarding defenses, it's always been an arms race between players who find the most meta strategy that enables the most efficient defense vs. On the other hand, Rimworld's been pretty lax about letting you disable events you don't like, and now you can even just disable whole factions, too, and I guess the difficulty has always been something you opt into (whether with the literal difficulty setting or just picking harder biomes). I almost wish there was a point buy system or something so it didn't feel quite so cheaty - you can just make your colonists research fast, not care about eating insect meat/cannibalism/seeing dead bodies/organ harvesting, etc, with no downsides. There's a difference between 'you can't and shouldn't always rely on your killbox' and 'EVERY FIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE DONE IN AN OPEN FIELD WITH NO ADVANTAGES TO THE DEFENDER.'Д¬ustom ideologies are a little bit overpowered, it's true.

PREPARE CAREFULLY RIMWORLD IDEOLOGY MOD

I'm going to mod out at the least the new mechanoids (and very probably the new raiders) before continuing. christ am I done with Tynan's obsession of making static defenses as useless as possible. Though considering how much Royalty was improved in later updates, I think it's very possible for Ideology to still reach that potential.ДЄs for 1.3. That being said, I do want to reinforce again I don't think it's bad it just doesn't live up to its potential for me personally at least. I'd so much rather have an ideology that organically forms and spreads amongst my colonists as I play, based on what I do and how I act, and my exposure to other existing ideologies. those particularly RP-inclined) and it's definitely not bad outside of those people, but it just feels like it could be more. I can easily see the utility and benefit of Ideologies for lots of people (i.e. At colony creation, with no actual downsides or real requirements.

You can choose to have standard, fast, or faster research speed. But beyond that it's pretty much just customizing rules. The only limits are a max of 4 of the bigger ideology archetypes (memes). Ideologies are cool but it's pretty much exactly what I feared - you make a complete ideology from scratch when you start a new colony (or choose a pre-existing one). First impressions of 1.3 and Ideology aren't.

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