RimWorld

[Hooahguy]

Update:

My little colony has doubled in size now! Remo kinda stumbled into the colony, and then three more were saved from either crashed pods or people chasing them. And then one guy was saved from pirate slavers. Things are going pretty well. Two of my colonists got married. Two colonists got cancer and I managed to successfully remove it from them (took a couple botched operations though). At one point half the colony burned down but I managed to rebuild, albeit with some difficulty. Finding enough raw resources is proving to be difficult at this stage. Ive had to start drilling but the game mechanics arent kind to the drilling feature. In the game, you build your drill and it will extract all the resources in a 3x3 square. But you cant uninstall it when its done extracting, you have to completely disassemble it which means you lose valuable resources. But thankfully at this point it has become easier to survive. My colonists have automatic weapons now, decent clothes, arent cold, and Ive managed to harness geothermal power so I rarely run out of power nowadays. Also trying to drain the local river so I can build more. I manage to deal with the Ancient Terror pretty easily by waiting for some heavily armed weapons traders to stop by when I opened the vault and the megaspiders poured out. No need to waste my colonists on them when the arms traders had grenade launchers right?

Anyways, heres the colony as it stands:

[Hooahguy]

Update:

The story of the colony of Parthos is over. Their numbers had strengthened to a full 13 colonists after I rescued two people from slavers. This seems to have angered some people I shouldnt have, as I began to be attacked by a number of large raids which I managed to fend off with no deaths on my side thankfully. But also then I found that it was time to go. Resources were getting scarce. The winters were getting harsher as crop yields dropped. Whereas before I was taking in about 10,000 units of crops each harvest season, it was reduced to about half of that due to random blights and cold snaps suddenly wiping out my crops. It was time to go. So I spent years scrounging for enough parts to build myself a rocket ship, and I blasted off into space. One colonist death, two marriages, god knows how many animals domesticated, 30 hours worth of gameplay.

Final snapshot of the colony, just before the ship took off for better lands:




So now I started another colony of course: Marbosia. Started off with three colonists, saved that last dude from some raiders. He has the bloodthirsty trait which makes fighting with others more likely. He is also a fantastic shooter, so I hope by giving him a gun wont end up blowing up in my face when he fires at someone for annoying him. Two of the other colonists already married, Moff and Skye. Married in like the 5th day. Four huskies joined our colony so they have been helpful hauling food. Trying a more methodical approach to my colony building, whereas before it was rather haphazard. The space to the left of my barracks are reserved for the hospital I will eventually make. The first year or two is always the hardest as you try to get into the swing of things. After that it stabilizes and you get to do more adventurous and creative things. So right now I am focusing on gathering as much food as I can before winter sets in.

[Beskar]

Fine you convinced me, I am going to have a play!

[Csargo]

Fine you convinced me, I am going to have a play!

Yeah me too. I'll probably purchase it soon, it seems pretty fun and interesting.

[Hooahguy]

Great! Also small note, the game literally never goes on sale, so no point waiting for the Steam summer sale.

[Beskar]

I have played for a couple of hours at least, but it is not the easiest game to get into from my initial thoughts. From. getting attacked by gattling gun totting slug monsters and constant raids, my poor colonists are missing body parts left right and centre. A lot of things seem to be locked behind research too that I had to Google solutions on how to get components and I think I cleared the map of them.. need to find where to make them.

[Hooahguy]

For people just starting out I would start with the lower difficulties and then raise it as you get your footing. Makes it much easier to learn the ropes as you arent being raided every other week. As for components, you can make them with a certain kind of workbench, but your colonists need level 10 crafting to make them. Especially starting out, a lack of components is one of the most frustrating setbacks possible (besides raids, fires, and blights). Almost froze to death one winter when all my generators broke down and I lacked components. Then I found that you could make a campfire to help heat rooms.