Rimworld - strategy base building sci-fi indie game

mohawk · 21 Dec 2016 at 09:06

Nice! Love this game

Rifte · 21 Dec 2016 at 09:07

Had this game in my library for some time now, I really need to make a start with it!

Clav · 21 Dec 2016 at 10:45

Wow this is a huge update. It was awesome before but the potential with this update is phenomenal

Smokey Deza · 21 Dec 2016 at 22:36

Played for a few hours last night. Great update. Wish I'd not played the last update and waited for this.

Glaucus · 21 Dec 2016 at 23:44

had a nice base set up 6 guys, so decided to try making a caravan, took 35 simple meals and just under 200 pelican, said my caravan had no food?

and they all died as soon as they returned to the base.
i cant see a way of adding food, other than just taking it with you, like any other item. only went to the nearest village.

need to try and find a save if there is one. As that should have been more than enough food.

no usabe save other than when i finished last night i did a hard safe but that was hours ago.

Smokey Deza · 3 Jan 2017 at 00:44

It's Autumn and it's -127c

Started a new game as the frozen wasteland gets a bit boring. It's so cold you get nothing but constant mech attacks and the occasion raiders who just freeze to death.

I prefer it when there's visitors. Last group that arrived torched my base because one of them was bit by a mad squirrel and he had an incendiary launcher.

And then they all just stood there and let it burn and when it was proper up in smoke game says 'Visitors from such and such are leaving'

lol

Kyrne · 10 Mar 2017 at 11:13

hmm just stumbled upon this... looks interesting!

Glaucus · 24 May 2017 at 20:26

wahoo just noticed alpha 17 has been released pretty big update.
blog post with all the info
https://ludeon.com/blog/2017/05/alpha-17-on-the-road-released/

Raumarik · 24 May 2017 at 21:04

Sweet, still got time for this game and undoubtedly my personal game of 2016

Mercutio · 25 May 2017 at 11:21

I'd missed the point of getting someone doing what they liked, even if they were crap at it (they get better) as such - crafting can be awesome. Get your best crafter making a few decent weapons (assault rifles are good) to boost their crafting experience. At the same time, get whoever in your colony LOVES crafting, whatever the level to make clothes. Solves the "my clothes are crap" mood penalty and gets the poor crafter to level it (with them "loving" it meaning they level much faster). You can set in the build queue what level someone has to be to be allowed to make the ordered item, set the rifle to be your best crafters level, leave clothes around the level of your poorer crafter who loves it.

I had my star crafter (full lvl 20) shot in the head in a raid so he became extremely slow and had poor manipulation stats resulting in massive problems getting power armour and miniguns made for my security team. Took a while but the next crafter, I managed to pull up from lvl 7ish to 17/18 before I got my ship built.

Same goes for growing, most things really.

muttclugg · 20 Oct 2018 at 19:47

I cant believe this thread has been dead for 18 months. Has anyone else been playing this now that it's been released? I only recently picked it up but it seems great and all I read is positive feedback on the game.

mohawk · 21 Oct 2018 at 11:22

yeah ive been playing it for ages, and started a new game when it was released. i love this game, so easy to get lost in!

Souness · 21 Oct 2018 at 12:49

Was waiting for this to get out of early access before buying. Glad I waited!

Smokey Deza · 21 Oct 2018 at 15:47

I've got 100s of hours clocked I just don't feel the magic when I return anymore.

Andr3w · 21 Oct 2018 at 17:04

Does this game run on the same engine as Prison Architect?

Reppyboyo · 21 Oct 2018 at 20:13

Smokey Deza said:
I've got 100s of hours clocked I just don't feel the magic when I return anymore.

Same, played so much since I helped kickstart it back in 2013(?).
Cant find the drive to play it anymore.

Cracking game for anyone who hasnt touched it yet though.

Clav · 22 Oct 2018 at 09:00

Andr3w said:
Does this game run on the same engine as Prison Architect?

From the horses mouth.

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23.msg52#msg52

Tynan Sylvester said:
I drew some inspiration from PA. Moreso from its own inspiration, Dwarf Fortress.

We don't share any tools. Chris at IV has his own tech foundation; I built this one on Unity.

But they do look somewhat similar; that's my fault. I'm not a good enough artist to come up with a really good original look. There are only so many ways to render characters on a tiny grid without using animations.

I hope the differences between the game will be enough for people to look past the aesthetic similarities. And if I get some funding at some point I can get an artist to help develop a more unique look.

I do think the similarities are skin-deep. In gameplay the game resembles DF much more than PA.

How did you know I used to call it Starship Architect? That was back in March... I didn't think I ever mentioned that anywhere. CREEPY

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/c...rld_and_prison_architect_use_the_same/coz5vel

Tynan Sylvester said:
There is no shared code; RW uses Unity by PA is, AFAIK, a custom engine written in C++. Chris D. is a much more experienced programmer than I.

tres · 28 Oct 2018 at 19:38

Love this game, my time sink at the moment.
A few things have gotten harder since the 1.0 release, but I'm 2 days away from launching on a Randy Savage run

Woogie · 29 Oct 2018 at 08:14

Souness said:
Was waiting for this to get out of early access before buying. Glad I waited!

Why so?

FoxEye · 29 Oct 2018 at 10:17

So how similar is this to Dwarf Fortress? I've played that game on and off for years and years, and it never gets old.

The only real gripes with DF are that it can be completely counter-intuitive, and fiddly to mess with lots of different (and inconsistent) menus.

Damn, now I want to play DF again... got too much to do!