REVISION 40B NOW IN EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH

Wow, that was quick.

What stage of colony development would be most useful to you? Early in the game, or perhaps after some significant development? Or possibly as late in development and as large a population as possible?

 

Here's the first hour of a new colony, with the My First Colony Starter Pack in the Temperate Biome (relevant files attached).

On an unrelated note, did something to do with the save system change in 40b? The game's not recognizing my manual saves for loading purposes, although the the Autosaves are appearing as normal:

 

Here's a second hour of the same game, from later on.

Also, I love the beetle swarm event. When I got the alert, I thought 'well that's interesting, I'll bet it's going to be a small swarm of beetles like the kind that come out of the mine shaft', which proved to be very wrong.

Two giant beetles and an assortment of regular and small beetles swarmed the town. My corn field was right in the middle of town. My colonists either ran around stamping on the tiny beetles, or ran away from the bigger ones. The giant beetles literally flattened a route through my flax field, utterly ruining the burgeoning flax harvest of my sleep-deprived town. And then we finally brought the giants down with concentrated gunfire. And a new swarm of beetles scattered from their corpses.

 

Played a game to try out the new build. I gotta say I think if I carried on much longer the colony would have been wiped out. The rate I was loosing people to various attacks was much higher than my colonist immigration rate. Got hit by bandits, then enemy squad and more bandits in quick succession. Maybe it was just poor luck this round I'm not sure.

 

Played for a couple of hours. No major problems, but I did encounter some behavioral issues.

• Fish men got stuck contemplating life goals for almost the entire duration (Should I have taken that Art Degree...?)
• Same with some foreigners, got stuck contemplating life
• So many bandits. Alot of bandits spawned over the course of the game, but whenever they tried to attack they got stuck or ran away from the contemplating fish men. I now realize there's no limit to the amount of bandit factions that can exist at any one point, might need to reconsider that.
• If Bandit relations are set to 'Don't shoot unless they cause trouble' my soldiers ignored them stealing things
  
• Been documented before, but no one picks up berries to store, but still picks them up to cook
• Nobody wanted to harvest the flax plant for some reason, even though it was grown and ready to go
• I built a mine just outside of the main colony area, a solider who I sent running over there got stuck in a loop of 'Return to Civilization' that'd take them back to the mine until they got so hungry they managed to push through their fear of the wilderness.
• Couple of footsoldiers got stuck in 'Return to Civilization', standing just outside the colony. I could force them to return with a military marker, but the system really didn't like me doing that and hanged for a while before executing the order.
• Very few events, I had a high criminal population so every now and again something would 'drop off' from behind an airship (Which one of the patriotic colonists would then complain about). But other then that not much occurred.
• And at the start of the game colonists walked to the edge of the map to collect some meat. It kind of looked like the starting bones also came with meat (Is this a case of where were trying to cheat by killing an animal in order to spawn the bones? Good idea if so, but I found their mystery meat).

 

Has naturalist behaviour changed now they have their own office? I borrowed one with prestige and she did nothing but cower and idle (though she did have the Craven trait), no exploring, mineral surveys or poking at tree stumps.

 

Got my first app hang/crash. (not a proper crash, but the jobs and crew window was lagging so hard that the game froze up when I tried clicking around, had to close the program)
Good game too, almost 30 days of in-game time.

Please pardon my potato of a camera. It wouldn't let me alt-tab to paint to save screenshots.


I noticed foraging seems to be fixed, as well as the severed heads thing. Huzzah!

A few bugs that stood out during this session -
-Friendly soldiers never leaving, just running in place or 'deciding what to do next'
-Ceramics shop has trouble 'finishing production' on occasion. Had to demolish the shop each time and start fresh.
-Kitchen couldn't finish production of beetle meat after someone had eaten it raw before it could be cooked. (eeew) Had to demolish the kitchen and make another.
-Very, very scare iron deposits on the map. I mean like maby 10 chunks on the surface. (This could've just been a crappy random world roll)
-Missing soldier loadouts, even when theres weapons and supplies in the stockpile
-Odd FSM script errors around day 24. The game didn't seem to agree with the creation of ammo supplies.

Heres the console.txt. It got freaking huge
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9heSf3emdD2NXliRElaT0t5Nzg/view?usp=sharing

 

I actually noticed this as well but thought it was just a random world roll. Maybe not.

 

- Aristocrats equip guns
- Soldiers equip guns when they already have guns, I think it's cuz I put them to work building. 2 NCOs ate 9 pistols...

- Bandits don't steal or attack during raids, just hang out (I did say avoid conflict)
- Allied foreign soldiers just hang out forever. This was great cuz Stahlmarkians attacked twice in 2 days and they were working as intended.
- Fishpeople hang out (I denied they exist)
- Got a beetle swarm event but they just hung out and I got free meats.

OH and the distant meat run... I turned off hauling on everyone and used it instead of frontier justice.
Someone started a cult? .... send them... TO THE MEAT !

 

This is the greatest thing

 

I was peaceful with them, it was one of the early ones that came to town. I do think they came with gifts.

It was allied foreigners. There was even one stood south of my colony I didn't notice for ages.

And glad to help MOOMANiBE

 

Is scroll speed slower now? It feels more sluggish to me, and with a little blur as the scene moves. Since 40A I think? Maybe I'm going crazy.

 

A single vermin destroyed half of my field (while it was being tended to) because no one bothered to stamp it.

Raise the priority on squash vermin or put a LIMIT on the number of crops a single small vermin can consume.

Also, colonists continue to be unable to bury bandit corpses. This is starting to get annoying.

 

A colonist was killed a little ways away from the town and the whole town flocked around to where he died with the job of "Fleeing to civilization".
I had to set a rally point to get my soliders over there to kill the foreign invader. Now, I can't seem to clear any squad's rally point. They walk around the area and only return to town to eat/sleep.
I also have another foreign invader stuck on my screen with "Running A Long Way Away".
I can't seem to butcher any Aurroch. There's two dead in town and I triggered the "Butcher" job, but they're still sitting there.
The beetle invasion is fun, but they can wipe out a whole bunch of crops really quickly.

Will there be no criminal immigration now? I seem to have only seen them on the favours window.

Finally, I am very happy that standing orders are fixed!