Why does everybody outside my colony have paralytic abasia

[Buddahxx]

It seems like every quest I take that involves someone coming to my colony the person inevitably has paralytic abasia. Just took one where a noble bedded the wrong person and now wants me to look after him as a prisoner, I'm kinda curious what she was doing in bed with someone with paralytic abasia in the first place. Is this suppose to make the quest more difficult? It doesn't require treatment so it doesn't take any extra to keep them. I guess I have to go manually feed them but this guys a prisoner so I'd be doing that anyways. It just seems like a weird choice to make this so common and its kind of a shame because having visitors can be cool and interesting but instead 90% of them just end up staying in my hospital the whole time. And that's way less interesting than the time a duke and is court (without the abasia) came and the duke was an artist who got a creative inspiration because he was so happy here. The masterwork grand jade sculpture he made me now sits in my throneroom. Anyone else get this? Or do I just have really bad luck.

[Astasia]

It's not usually that common, that just seems to be the RNG you are getting. Usually it's Blood Rot that is much more common for those types of quests in my experience. I don't actually ever remember getting a guest with abasia, and the only time I see any pawns with abasia is the fairly rare abasia escape pod event.

[Spack Jarrow]

It's common enuf for me , most prisoners come with it.
Additionally I had a number of colonist pawns crash land with it.
I have voiced my opinion about rimworld Slowing down to a crawl In Ideology mutiple times.
Converting takes so much time , then the addition of this abasia, basically means you get a usless pawn that only bumps up the raid threat for a month, doesn't do anything eats your food.
I find it incredibly weird all these design decisions.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Astasia:

It's not usually that common, that just seems to be the RNG you are getting. Usually it's Blood Rot that is much more common for those types of quests in my experience. I don't actually ever remember getting a guest with abasia, and the only time I see any pawns with abasia is the fairly rare abasia escape pod event.

It's pretty new I think. Just a few patches ago? Just doing a quick web search it seems people are having this since september.

[Astasia]

Ah I see, I haven't done a playthrough since the early August update. If they made blood rot less common and abasia more common that sounds like a positive change to me though.

Then again, I might be biased. Technically the condition pawns have in RimWorld would probably be called astasia (inability to stand) not abasia (inability to walk correctly). In any case that lovin' stuff isn't as gross as people think, it's just a condition that affects the legs, they aren't comatose.