Psychic Bond question

[Itharus]

So, bit of a problem... while some guests were over (quest to host them), one of my pawns developed a relationship, marriage, and psychic bond with one of them (that's a lot in 20 days... yikes...). At the end of the quest they obviously hop into a shuttle and leave.

There's a really big penalty on that psychic bond due to distance.

How do I go about breaking that? Because of course it was my single most important colonist it happened to.

[martindirt]

Devmode
Remove relationship
Never tried with psychic bond, save your game before you doing it.

[Rainnd]

or use dev mode to summon off map pawn, and then capture/recruit

[Astasia]

Without cheating you could try murdering your colonist and using a res mech serum on them, not sure if that works. Or implant a new xenogerm into your colonist, even if the new xenogerm contains psychic bonding I've heard it removes the existing bond.

[Itharus]

He's a highmate, so it's tied to that.

What are the odds of ever encountering that pawn again? LOL... she was 3 days from giving birth, too... yikes. Should she theoretically be at one of their settlements or does she go poof?

I tried to load a save and see if I could just like, capture her and go to war with that faction over it -- but interestingly it said she was in *MY* faction and all of her stats were set to "-" due to being passive quest npc. So... wholly useless and I couldn't capture her or anything anyway. So now my guy's got this -25% consciousness debuff I don't know what to do with.

I could hook him on some sort of stimulant, I suppose? Anyone know any consciousness boosts that don't require a drug addiction? (ah... a conversation like this can only be had in Rimworld...)

[Markus Reese]

If do not want to dev mode? Could also banish the pawn I guess.


I have seen pawn's return time and again. Every pawn is persistent. I have had released injured raiders return, relationships, and more.

[Itharus]

Sounds like I may just have to wait and hope then... :-\

I don't actually know anything about dev mode.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Itharus:

He's a highmate, so it's tied to that.

Highmate is a xenogerm, adding any new xenogerm to a Highmate will replace all their abilities including the bonding gene and cause the existing bond to cancel. If you build an exact copy of the Highmate xenogerm and implant it into them then that will also reset the bond because for a moment the ability is removed before being readded. This is actually a bit of an issue that may be fixed because the bond only forms when the relationship forms, so if you change the genes of a Highmate they lose the bond with their partner and can't get it back without breaking up and starting a new relationship.

[Itharus]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Originally posted by Itharus:

He's a highmate, so it's tied to that.

Highmate is a xenogerm, adding any new xenogerm to a Highmate will replace all their abilities including the bonding gene and cause the existing bond to cancel. If you build an exact copy of the Highmate xenogerm and implant it into them then that will also reset the bond because for a moment the ability is removed before being readded. This is actually a bit of an issue that may be fixed because the bond only forms when the relationship forms, so if you change the genes of a Highmate they lose the bond with their partner and can't get it back without breaking up and starting a new relationship.

Oh trip, good to know. I didn't realize the xenogerms could be replaced... still learning the new stuff and haven't played with the genes yet (colony too small/young).

[Itharus]

Remarrying does NOT replace the psychic bond with a new psychic bond.

I feel like it really should, though...

Apparently it's a "first time only" thing.

[Zane87]

Originally posted by Itharus:

So, bit of a problem... while some guests were over (quest to host them), one of my pawns developed a relationship, marriage, and psychic bond with one of them (that's a lot in 20 days... yikes...).

Originally posted by Itharus:

What are the odds of ever encountering that pawn again? LOL... she was 3 days from giving birth, too... yikes.

Sounds like the usual erasmus experience to me tbh ^^