What is the point of the High Life meme?

[ROE]

As the title states.

I've been messing around with high life and I can see no real advantage to it. Is it just supposed to be some kind of joke meme or something? Is the entire point of the thing just to get the mind bender carpet, which kind of sucks. Seriously, tell me what I am missing here.

[Winterbloom [✚]]

autobong. constantly causes a smokeleaf effect in an area around it. powerful for those who actually use smokeleaf effects.

[RCMidas]

Not every meme is meant to make things easier or more advantageous. Some of them are meant entirely for roleplay purposes. Going into this with the min-max mindset is only going to hurt your brain.

[Hanuman]

A smokeleaf joint has saved my pawns from mental breakdowns quite a few times. Does the high life meme give you a +buff beyond even the smokeleaf buff? just for being high and being of that ideology?

[Cat®]

Fun.

[ROE]

I will say that the meme seems fairly true to life.

This colony is the most inefficient colony I have ever had. Nothing gets done since everyone moves so slow from being stoned all the time. Combat is rough too. All they do is sit around, eat, and smoke weed. lol. Is kind of funny.

I don't understand the autobong thing either. it doesn't last long at all. What exactly is the point of being high on smoke leaf anyway? The mental break thing? That isn't nearly worth the drawbacks. At least yayo will make you move around and get ♥♥♥♥ done.

Oh well, i will shelve this run. I do wonder if you combined this with the tree hugger thing and made a bunch of dryads to do the all the dumb labor if that would be better. Large investment but it might work.

[ZippyTheWonderMoonrat]

I think High Life is pretty good. Mostly for the early days of my colony when they seem to have mental breaks left and right, weed -- err sorry, 'smokeleaf' -- gives a nice mood boost and is easy to create.

[RCMidas]

Early days shouldn't give you so much trouble due to having like +40 mood from no colony wealth and just starting out.

[Grinch]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Not every meme is meant to make things easier or more advantageous. Some of them are meant entirely for roleplay purposes. Going into this with the min-max mindset is only going to hurt your brain.

[NisseDood]

High life is great.
Easy to maintain it with beer and smokeleaf without them becoming addicted.

[Païtiti]

I think a lot of you dont really get the point of Rimworld...

If you want to play a bunch of space stoners play a bunch of space stoners. That's the point. Nothing else.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by ROE:

I can see no real advantage to it.

You're thinking about it the wrong way around. It's not supposed to provide an advantage, not any more than pawns incapable of dumb labor or a catatonic break is supposed to give advantages. It's a challenge. For fun.

[Rezonus]

Never thought of using autobongs as part of your colony defence? Stoned raiders are easier to kill after all.

[dande48]

I absolutely love "high life". The "Autobong" is fantastic... except for when injured, low conciousness pawns enter the smoke and are immediately disabled. But it gives you the bonuses for smokeleaf without ever having your colonists build up a tolerance, or risk additction.

You also get a major bonus to drug crop yeilds and sale prices, and access to the plant specialist.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by dande313:

But it gives you the penalties for smokeleaf without ever having your colonists build up a tolerance, or risk additction.

Fixed that for you. :)

Smokeleaf is the one drug I never use, even in my High Life colonies. That 30% penalty to Consciousness is never worth it, IMO. Not when it's so easy to get high on other, less harmful substances like psychite tea and beer.

[RCMidas]

Schedule a visit to the autobong in the evening before they go to bed, however, and that is not an issue at all. Have them pass through it on the way to bed, provided that you've kept the bedrooms in a less-frequented part of your colony for efficiency purposes. Works well.