Question for Tynan

[Lord Quinton]

I don't know if he ever peruses these forums, but if he does I do hope he'll deign to take a moment and reply to my question.

On the title screen of the game, the large planet has a broken up starship on it, is that ship in orbit around the planet, or is it on the surface?

Its a pretty huge ship regardless, but still, i've always wondered and theres no way to find out.

[Monoxide]

Originally posted by Lord Quinton:

I don't know if he ever peruses these forums

Ive never seen him here, but I hear he frequents the ludeon forums.

EDIT - Also, that ship looks to be a little big -OR- a really small planet (if crashed), if you dont take the game sizes into account. So my assumption visually is that it is in orbit. Additionally, people keep "crash landing" from pods, which to me points to the ship still breaking apart in the sky, and debris keeps falling planet side.

[GeneralVeers]

Well, in the strict realistic sense, if that shipwreck WAS on the planet, its sheer size and impact velocity would have caused an extinction-level event considerably worse than the asteroid that hit us 65 million years ago. So I vote "it's in orbit".

But it's a video game, and the artist who made that pic probably wasn't intending to exercise that level of realistic detail.........

[SuburbanHermit]

Originally posted by Mike Aruba:

Originally posted by Lord Quinton:

I don't know if he ever peruses these forums

Ive never seen him here, but I hear he frequents the ludeon forums.

EDIT - Also, that ship looks to be a little big -OR- a really small planet (if crashed), if you dont take the game sizes into account. So my assumption visually is that it is in orbit. Additionally, people keep "crash landing" from pods, which to me points to the ship still breaking apart in the sky, and debris keeps falling planet side.

That would explain all of the relatives of pawns scattered in different areas on the map and in other factions

[Astasia]

It's in orbit and you can see debris falling out of it down toward the planet. It's probably not the easiest thing to show perspective in space.

[Tynan]

It's in orbit; it's the ship you crashland from in the "Crashlanded" scenario.

[GeneralVeers]

Goodie, the dev is in here!

So, here's my question: was the planet already inhabited when the player's colonists crash-landed, or did ALL the settlements on the planet arise from this same exploded ship?

The reason I ask is, in my current (as in first-ever) game, I've barely reached solar panels and a nearby settlement is already offering me a flatscreen TV set in exchange for a shipment of jackets. That's pretty speedy technological advancement on their part.........(if they raid my settlement with phaser guns and photon torpedoes, I'm gonna be MAD!)

[LYNX Scout]

I always assumed it was like those weird planets they'd eventually land on in the old Battlestar Galactica TV shows with Cylons living in western towns ;)

[Maestro4202]

Originally posted by Tynan:

It's in orbit; it's the ship you crashland from in the "Crashlanded" scenario.

Thanks for that answer and thanks for asking OP. I always wondered the same thing but forgot all about it soon as the game loaded up. The one clue I could see that it was in orbit is there is no shadow on the ground for it.

[martindirt]

Originally posted by GeneralVeers:

Goodie, the dev is in here!

So, here's my question: was the planet already inhabited when the player's colonists crash-landed, or did ALL the settlements on the planet arise from this same exploded ship?

The reason I ask is, in my current (as in first-ever) game, I've barely reached solar panels and a nearby settlement is already offering me a flatscreen TV set in exchange for a shipment of jackets. That's pretty speedy technological advancement on their part.........(if they raid my settlement with phaser guns and photon torpedoes, I'm gonna be MAD!)

Im sure the planet was already inhabited.
Example: Tribes. Its sure they dont crashed on the planet from a space ship.
And lost tribe scenario... where u start with the survivors from a slaughtered tribe.
And mabe those advanced factions are crashed there earlier, or they are more advanced inhabitans of the planet. Use your imagination, if this question is important for you. :)

[Slye_Fox]

Originally posted by GeneralVeers:

Goodie, the dev is in here!

So, here's my question: was the planet already inhabited when the player's colonists crash-landed, or did ALL the settlements on the planet arise from this same exploded ship?

The reason I ask is, in my current (as in first-ever) game, I've barely reached solar panels and a nearby settlement is already offering me a flatscreen TV set in exchange for a shipment of jackets. That's pretty speedy technological advancement on their part.........(if they raid my settlement with phaser guns and photon torpedoes, I'm gonna be MAD!)

Yes the planet was inhabited prior to you crashing (at least at some point).
You can see evidence of this with the ruins, compacted machinery & Cryptosleep vaults (the anchent dangers).

[GeneralVeers]

Originally posted by martonherman1984:

Use your imagination, if this question is important for you. :)

Reason I asked the dev is because I'm wondering what the "official" canon is.

I've already broken the fourth wall more than once in this forum. It's a video game, and maybe the programmers just threw in those other tribes on the world map without paying attention to the fact that their presence produces a few story conflicts.......

[LYNX Scout]

If you look at the dark side of the planet on the left of the graphic you will see light artifacts from human(?) settlements. Kinda like earth-at-night, but with smaller more spaced out lights.

Or to be fair, earth today could be considered Rimworld populations. After all, we still do have tribals.

[Astasia]

Every world seed is a different planet with a potentially different backstory. With the way cryptosleep works and the fact that everyone on the ship was in stasis, this gives a lot of wiggle room to imagine things happening in a lot of different ways, for example very large gaps in time between waves of survivors hitting the ground, enough time for the first waves to build up quite a bit before the later waves.

However every member of every raider, spacer, and outlander faction has the same backstories as the crashlanded colonists implying they all came from off world. This is perhaps a bit of an oversight, it means none of them have been around on the planet long enough to have kids. Did they all come from the same ship? Maybe, the universe has no FTL travel, and one would think the likelyhood of multiple ships crashing around the same planet at nearly the same time in such a universe would be slim, but at the same time trade ships pass by nearly every week so some things don't quite make as much sense as expected. Even the people you find in caskets in the ruins of the planet are from offworld and from potentially the same ship as the crashlanded survivors (based on age and relations), maybe just the first batch of pods that hit the planet and they hid in the caskets out of desperation.

That just leaves the tribes. I think evidence suggests they were slaves onboard the ship(s) that crashed on the planet and have only been there for roughly as long as the outlanders. What evidence you may ask? The tribal start suggests these people are unfamiliar with mechanoids, and the mechanoids have certainly been on the planet for a very long time and can be found all over the planet at various ruins that a people spending their entire life (let alone multiple generations) on the planet would certainly be aware of.

There for sure was a large civilization on the planet at one point, but it's long gone and it doesn't seem like anyone survived, in any form.