Strategy for Blind Faith? (Cutting out Eyes)

[MadCre8tor]

So I was wondering how you even fight when you gauge out all your people's eyes.
Sight has a massive impact on both ranged and melee accuracy, so what am I missing here?
Was very curious to try this

[Astasia]

Dryads. Being blind has no effect on tree pruning, so you dedicate your blind pawns to a few trees and use the combat dryads to help defend your base. Is my guess. Seems like a decent strategy and is probably what I'm going to try for my next game. Tree Connection + Blind. You'll likely need to keep the eyes on at least a few colonists though, you aren't meant to just blind everyone.

[Edible Eyebrows]

Dont blind everyone, some people will need vision to do their jobs and you will need to give them a little more attention to keep their mood up.

Eventually you can build your defences in such a way that you can shift things a little more in your favour, such as fighting in the dark, lowering sightlines to keep things close-range and rely more on traps/automated weapons.

[MadCre8tor]

Hmm interesting. The flavour text says "our blind have special ways of connecting with the psychic eather" welp. Maybe they can become capable psycasters more quickly.
I also noticed you can do "half-blind" reducing the mood debuff from -6 to -1, and improving opinion of others from -30 to +10.
Alright I'm gonna try this. Wish me luck lol

[Zane87]

Originally posted by MadCre8tor:

Hmm interesting. The flavour text says "our blind have special ways of connecting with the psychic eather" welp. Maybe they can become capable psycasters more quickly.
I also noticed you can do "half-blind" reducing the mood debuff from -6 to -1, and improving opinion of others from -30 to +10.
Alright I'm gonna try this. Wish me luck lol

Isn't the advantage that you can increase your psylink levels with blinded people through the ritual or sth?
Haven't tried it myself but that's how it was written by several other posts here so together with the flavor text that would make a lot of sense.

[S1]

as far as the psycasting stuff goes is it worth running the blindness meme for those of us who don't own the Royalty dlc?

[RCMidas]

It's a challenge, that's all. Most of the high-impact memes are there principally to shake up how the game is played, not necessarily to make it easier or to try and min-max something out of it.

[Hykal]

All this blinding stuff and being tied to psycasting makes me think playing this meme without Royalty isn't very rewarding lol

[Richard Mc Nutbuster]

try spirit sight, it makes pawns see again based on their psilevel