Escape from the world

[G-Solo (Indonesia)]

I have thinking. If the objective of the game (when you play as the basic scenario as 3 colonists) is to escape the planet, then why don't you leave the planet when you have build the comm computer and able to contact the intergalactic traders?

[DG Dobrev]

Because they don't want to look lazy or incapable of doing it themselves. They also don't want to be captured and sold into slavery :)

[Corvax]

Cause reasons.

[Justicar Nord]

Unable to land on the planet for some reason?

[G-Solo (Indonesia)]

But they can take your cargo from the ground, lol

[Justicar Nord]

Originally posted by G-Solo:

But they can take your cargo from the ground, lol

Pods

[G-Solo (Indonesia)]

I means if you can contact the outside world, then why don't you contact the planetary government / the authority that you are stranded on a planet, and then ask for rescue? It just like you are stranded on an empty island, and you can contact the outside world with your communication. But instead of asking for help, you decide to build an ocean capable ship all by yourself to leave the island.

And the funny thing is, to build the ship, you buy the component from some trader ship that across the island and has contact with you

[MrFinnT]

you can sell salves to traders so "buying" a ticket for your colinist should be an option. like 1000 silver per person. an econimic victory. or maybe 2000 silver.

[MrFinnT]

@G-Solo Rimworld. there is no planetary government. it's a planet far away from civilisation.
only raiders, and other crash landed colonies (and their successors) are there.

[Sparhawk1]

I imagine the part of the galaxy your in is a backwater kinda. Nobody is going to haul your ass halfway across the galaxy to drop you off back in your home government world. Its like the wild west maybe. they will trade with you as long as you got stuff too trade but thats it. Maybe they come back and take what they want instead. I just imagine the beakon only reaches so far.

[ofaplic]

Did anyone ever google the word "Rimworld"? You crashed landed in a world on the outer edges of civilization. Think of the nearest grocery store is measured in millions of miles.

edit: correction maybe trillions...

[G-Solo (Indonesia)]

Now, according to the Rimworld official store page, these colonists are not professional colonists. They are not explorers either. And it is stated that the 3 survivors are the passengers of an air liner / maybe a space liner. Now, what kind of Space Liner wander far-far away from the civilization? I thought the purpose of space liner was to bring their passanger from one colony to another. Not bringing them to the outer edge of the galaxy. That's the job of profesional, not these poor passangers.

[Phoenix C64]

Why didn't the eagles fly Frodo directly into Mordor?

[Falco]

In Rimworld FTL was never developed, so humanity used cryogenic pods and the like to spread out across the stars, plus they never found out how to get communications to go faster than light, since everyone on the liner was out cold (eh,eh?) a asteroid probably hit the liner and made it go off course, possibly also causing the AI that controls the liner on board to malfunction, or be outright destroyed, and that's how we got to the rimworld.

[G-Solo (Indonesia)]

@Phoenix : Well now, that's the question. Why didn't they?

[Phoenix C64]

Originally posted by G-Solo:

@Phoenix : Well now, that's the question. Why didn't they?

for the same reason you can't get away on a trade ship... coz then there would be no story.

now the real answer:
it has been documented by Tolkien (or his son, can't remember) that in first place, the eagles can't be summoned at will and will only come if they want to. secondly, Mordor was too well guarded to just fly in there at the time.