Mid game boredom?

[kaleb]

I have constantly been restarting saves due to mid way through the game I am basically set forever as I have a constant wave of food that is frozen and no problem with defences.

Also during the mid game there is not much to do other than slowly waiting for the odd raid and research to finish which is highly uneventful.

Any tips on things to "spice up" the mid game to make it more enjoyable and more difficult to play?

[Tarzanax]

What difficulty are you playing on?

[kaleb]

Originally posted by Tmigtkptmilmd:

What difficulty are you playing on?

I normally play on extreme randy random to help with the midgame boredom but it doesn't seem to do much.

[Tarzanax]

Well you could always expand your base, set yourself a population target and try to beat that, you could get rich (as you get richer the severity of the raids become more difficult). You could befriend all the faction so the mechanoids attack you. These are just some of the ways I make this game more interesting as I progress.

[kaleb]

Originally posted by Tmigtkptmilmd:

Well you could always expand your base, set yourself a population target and try to beat that, you could get rich (as you get richer the severity of the raids become more difficult). You could befriend all the faction so the mechanoids attack you. These are just some of the ways I make this game more interesting as I progress.

Population targets aren't the easiest things to do as you basically have to wait for raids to get a chance of a survivor or wanderer etc and by midgame I am already fairly wealthy and have a decently sized base covering every need of my colonists

[Roboking]

Originally posted by Kaleb:

I have constantly been restarting saves due to mid way through the game I am basically set forever as I have a constant wave of food that is frozen and no problem with defences.

Also during the mid game there is not much to do other than slowly waiting for the odd raid and research to finish which is highly uneventful.

Any tips on things to "spice up" the mid game to make it more enjoyable and more difficult to play?

Have you tried any mods?

[kaleb]

Originally posted by Roboking987:

Originally posted by Kaleb:

I have constantly been restarting saves due to mid way through the game I am basically set forever as I have a constant wave of food that is frozen and no problem with defences.

Also during the mid game there is not much to do other than slowly waiting for the odd raid and research to finish which is highly uneventful.

Any tips on things to "spice up" the mid game to make it more enjoyable and more difficult to play?

Have you tried any mods?

The only mods I have tried are just general game features like colony manager and prepare carefully.

[Roboking]

Originally posted by Kaleb:

Originally posted by Roboking987:

Have you tried any mods?

The only mods I have tried are just general game features like colony manager and prepare carefully.

Maybe browse the workshop and find other mods that make the game harder.

[kaleb]

Originally posted by Roboking987:

Originally posted by Kaleb:

The only mods I have tried are just general game features like colony manager and prepare carefully.

Maybe browse the workshop and find other mods that make the game harder.

Hopefully I find something, the game is starting to become stale to me and I don't want a game with such potential get away from me due to it being to simple and easy.

[Ficelle]

Play permadeath, tribal start, harder biomes, extreme from the start, no mods easing everything.

You wont be safe for a long time.

[Roboking]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747313773 Seems like a fun mod. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727309536&searchtext= If I find more i'll edit this.

[kaleb]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

Play permadeath, tribal start, harder biomes, extreme from the start, no mods easing everything.

You wont be safe for a long time.

How about extreme desert 1 man tribe starting with nothing on extreme randy random? That could do something though when I tried it before I lasted about a year until a raid came, destroyed my power and AC and then drove my people insane from heat.

[Roboking]

Maybe a fallout challendge?

[Ficelle]

I mostly play randy extreme, 1 man tribal start, permadeath, no mod.

Ive escaped from time to time (i consider it a win), but have had many many more failures.

I think permadeath is the most important part, too easy otherwise to have a colony that is only a collection of victories (or small fails you accept because they are of no real consequenses), leading to the boredom you experience.

It makes you never trully safe.

Also, Cassandra extreme is harder in my opinion than Randy (i still prefer Randy)

[Zalzany]

Yeah once you become a master you need perma death, can't lie I scumed saved a couple times, and after that it always cheapens the save for me. Try picking a worse biome as well go out of the comfort zone you mastered the one now move on my end goal is to do deserts and maybe Iice Sheet, but as of now Boran forest proiveds my best all rounder experince still get bears that will normally attack my life stock or colonists instead of be tamed, in fact so for I am 1/3 for taming attemtps on them the other 2 it ripped limbs off more then one colonist so I kind only do it if I feel secure like one time I did it I had a girl with a heavy SMG on hand with fast walker to rescue the tamer, and it was near my base, getting close to eating my dog..

Anyways the point is go outside the comfort zone, and yeah the other seem worse then Randy, I did randy he is scarry at first but so random that he helps me more the nscrews me over...

[Name Lips]

Play random colonists on a random map tile. Don't even look at them. Just click through the options and see what you get.