Spiritual Leader Role

[plugwater]

In my colony, I have severe difficulties keeping the "spiritual leader" pawns (ones who hold conversion rituals) happy. They are constantly on break risks. This stems from their expectations being raised by 2 levels. How can I make this more manageable?

[James]

Originally posted by XxFapGod207xX:

In my colony, I have severe difficulties keeping the "spiritual leader" pawns (ones who hold conversion rituals) happy. They are constantly on break risks. This stems from their expectations being raised by 2 levels. How can I make this more manageable?

it helps if they have a hot lover

[Astasia]

Mostly make sure you have enough recreation sources, that's the main issue with higher expectations. Get a harp, TV and telescope up pretty quickly. Then don't assign anyone to those roles if they have traits that negatively impact their mood or mental break chance by a significant amount. Your ideology should have more than enough mood bonuses to cover the drop otherwise. Expectations +2 is -12 mood, equipping their favored weapon, the right ideological clothes, and building stuff in your ideology's style for them to be near is like +10-12 right there.

Taking them on caravans is going to be tricky though, unless they have good traits for that.

[ZS Maeklos]

Give them very nice bedrooms. Make sure their needs (both normal and ideological) are fulfilled. Maybe even cut them into a smokeleaf schedule or something. I typically set scheduled drugs for 1 every 3 days if their mood drops below 30%. That way, they can't do it often enough to build up a huge dependence or get addicted, but it's often enough that it should help to keep their moods up.

And if you have Pain is a Virtue as a meme, randomly beat them up every few days whenever their mood is really low. They love that.

[RCMidas]

Note that eventually, your colony wealth will become so great that they will get a mood debuff simply because they cannot be kept in exquisite luxury 100% of the time - you'll see how all your other colonists have the ordinary "sky high expectations" for neither a mood buff nor a debuff, but they want even more than you can actually provide.

If you cannot support their lifestyle just yet, dismiss them from the position for the time being.

[plugwater]

I don't know, guys.

I have the raider precept that gives a +12 on a recent conquest - Cool, but it doesn't cover for the higher expectations when you consider that my guy has the tortured artist trait, which is a pain. I don't have much of a choice, they're the only one with decent social skills. I have only medieval entertainment options available, but if I don't have someone assigned to the role everyone gets a -5. That just makes things harder for everyone else.

I'll try my best with your advice and the options I have available, but it'll be tricky.

[James]

Originally posted by XxFapGod207xX:

I'll try my best with your advice and the options I have available, but it'll be tricky.

this sorta sums up rimworld at its best. When the systems intertwine to make the "best" path not immediately clear I think the game is most fun/interesting. The dlc does a decent job of throwing more complexity by adding a lot more positives and negatives to consider when managing your colony.