Lone Wolf Strategy

[Silverlance]

Any of you ever played as a lone wolf before ? is it boring ?

I have an idea to play as a lone wolf with a nice log cabin, a loyal dog and a trusty gun. But i though it would be boring because not much going, also what if he wounded ? idea ?

[Nightmyre]

colonists can treat themselves now, although if they get wounded to the point where they collapse, you pretty much lose if you're alone. The rich colonist start allows you to play the game you're asking to play, and if you want to tweak it so that no more colonists can join, you can do that easily enough

[kevinshow]

There is a scenario even called "Lone Wolf" in the workshop that starts you out with a dog. Depending on how fast you get that 2nd and third person, though, it won't be Lone Wolf for long, so you may have to put your own limitation on when you can recruit someone.

For one person, there would actually be a lot going on, and he has to do it all. The only caveat is that if he gets downed by some raiders or manhunters and doesn't get back up by himself, you'll have to reload or restart, depending on how you want to play it.

I didn't think it was boring because one of the challenges of most Rimworld colonies is to get it going from the start...after you get many people and established food and steel chain for things, then it's actually not as exciting to me, though I'll still play it to keep making the colony better.

[Immortalits]

For an enjoyable 'lone wofl'-like gameplay, I recommend the 'lovers' version rather.
With 2 colonists you have a small base (house) in the middle of nowhere still and you practically can sole the problem of getting your colonist downed alone, but you still don't have to much extra workpower, also, you can just make your 2nd colonist to be a good housewife or husband.

Also, for the problem of getting downed, the tamed animals are guite a good solution, especailly muffalos. In a small value (cheap base) you won't get too hard things coming to you, and even a single muffalo you tame will be an excellent helper, not to mention more... when you can just send them out to the 2-3 raiders, that come to you and they will handle them alone.

I'm doing some practice in a 6 man (fix) tribal game, I'm practicing to keep my bases value low and so far I was succesfull in that and only less than 10 tribal enemies attacked me at max, which is quite good, compared to how large my base already is (I'm playing rough).

[Immortalits]

If you only build things out of the cheapest materials and rebuild everything, that is higher than excellent quality, then it is quite easy to manage the raids power.
Legendary items worth 10 tiems the normal ones, but only gives 1.7 times the combat/beauty/rest effect/etc. values only, so it does not worth using legendary and masterwork items (masterwork is 5 times the normal value). Excellent or maybe only just superior are more than enough as quality boosts compared to normal.

Also if you create a brain implant, or just delete the negative things from the neurostimulator and or use a mod, that gives you a good artificial brain replacement, then your colonists can practically life forever, since the current game mechanics does not kill your colonist through age, but through age relevant diseases, but if all your body parts are artificial, you can't get those diseases, like bad back, heart attack, etc. The vanilla game currently only has no solution for old age brain degeneration, like dementia, and the likes, without having some negative effects, but haven't tried it out with a simple painstopper yet, because I always start with super young colonists and haven't reached 70+ years for my colonies yet :D

[Immortalits]

Also, the events will still hapen with the same pace in the game, the only difference being, that your colony has only 1 member and geting a serious wound is more troublesome.

[ambi]

With only 1-2 people, if you get a disease, you are toast. To recover from disease, you need to sleep 24/7, which means your colony becomes vulnerable, crops don't get planted or harvested, meals arent cooked, and stuff like that. If you do decide to getup and work, your immune system weakens and you will die.

[Emmote]

The last game I played was a solo colonist on Sea Ice with a polar bear pet. Was quite fun, but very, very difficult.

Constantly had to wait for orbital traders because none of the other factions would turn up because it was too cold.
Colonists being able to treat themselves is a godsend, but they still can't perform surgery, so no bionics.
At least on Sea Ice I never had to worry about diseases - THAT would be terrible. Unless your colonist has the new Trait that gives them a stronger immune system, forget what it's called.