I dont mind the odd recruit who's near on useless, i kinda welcome having people i can prioritise for cleaning and hauling (certainly when im at around 6+ pawns).
I havent really pushed myself with this so far, i've kept it on simple because its just a mean little bully of a game
Once ive realised the importance, i've been going with the largest map size (under 'Advanced' iirc when picking the plot, i cant really think of a reason why you'd go for less if your system can handle it... or even if it cant
) and typically where its had year round growing because you need all the help you can get.
Things werent helped once i discovered the dev menu, i only wanted to mess with a few things, and since then ive been unable to turn it off or stop myself from blatantly cheating, but still spawning in multiple brutal assaults just to see the results. One of the times i must have spawned in about 10 of the hardest possible assaults (must have been some tribals with 50ppl), and with mods this included soldiers with much more advanced tech as well as the Mechs, and cos they're spawned in wherever, various fights would break out between the different colonies.
The only thing i really dislike in the game is the infestations, they're just pure evil.
I need to try and go back to playing legit and not being such a [insert selection of **'d words] every time something goes wrong, and bloomin disable dev mode!
I need to embrace failure!
I dont think it helps that i've been naming the pawns after friends, but with mods like Prepare carefully i can at least create my starting conditions & group, save them, and reuse them each time i fail. When i was spending 15-30min on rerolls for my group, and then doing something stupid it was too annoying wasting all that time, so reloading became the solution, which became an overused solution every time something went wrong.
Brilliant game, evil through and through though
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