Custom Scenarios - Characters

[Raine]

Can we PLEASE get a feature to create custom characters in the game? i rather like the randomization which forces you to deal with certain traits or disabled work types. all good. but when i wanna make a more story-based custom scenario it sucks that i cant change their appearance or relationships, whats disabled, their traits and what their skills are.

I tried it out with the current system and hoped itd work out but nope, people got into romantic relationships with the wrong people and i couldnt make any of them siblings or other family.

Please Tynan x_x

I absolutely love that we can change th world and how it starts out, being ablee to disable incidents is awesome as well as i like to play for base building not for punishing survival so thank you for that <3 but honestly, im really missing this aspect of the game and i cant imagine it would be that difficult to do as its all stuff thats already in the game, it just needs a menu like the custom scenario one just with people (im not a game dev though so i could be totally wrong)

[Lactose the Intolerant]

Had a random start. Played for about 3 hours before a fire broke out. I then realise no one has firefighting (!!!) and everything burns down. Including 2 colonists. /ragequit

[OWL]

There is a mod for that called "Prepare carefully"

[Raine]

@lactose the intolerant damnnnn thats roughhhh x.x

@OWL i know i had heard about that, but i also read there were some issues with it and i dont feel like it should have to be a mod, it should be in the main game so that it also continues to be there with further builds/updates and isnt at the mercy of a mod creator who will eventually move on

[OWL]

I agree would be better built into the game but I'm using it at the moment and had no problems with it.

[radkid10]

Originally posted by OWL:

There is a mod for that called "Prepare carefully"

the mod no longer works and plus even if it did the guy gave up on it he's not planning to upgrade it any further

[OWL]

Originally posted by radkid11:

Originally posted by OWL:

There is a mod for that called "Prepare carefully"

the mod no longer works and plus even if it did the guy gave up on it he's not planning to upgrade it any further

As I already said, it works fine, someone ells updated it.

I currently have V14.0.4 installed and working to perfection

[OWL]

14.0.5 was released 8 hours ago

https://github.com/edbmods/EdBPrepareCarefully/releases

[radkid10]

they seriously need to put it on the Steam Workshop
I hate manually installing mods

[Grek]

IMHO RM is a game about random situations. after implementing "prepare carefully" mod (and similar) in vanilla game, conception of game may change

[Greythorn]

I like starting with a single char and no gear, but have that char fairly good.
The rest of the team fills up with the RNG fun folk soon enough...

[Raine]

Originally posted by Greythorn:

I like starting with a single char and no gear, but have that char fairly good.
The rest of the team fills up with the RNG fun folk soon enough...

This sounds like fun tbh :o

@Grek - its not THAT random, you can customize everything else about your scenario. what you drop with, whats nearby, whats scattered on the map, starting research etc. custom characters seem like a logical step.

@OWL - thanks man, ill definitely look into it :D

[Grek]

Originally posted by Thit:

@Grek - its not THAT random, you can customize everything else about your scenario. what you drop with, whats nearby, whats scattered on the map, starting research etc. custom characters seem like a logical step.

random characters in vanilla kill the charm of game imho. here is how i see it: you even dont need press random button. you just make kill team and relax instead of adapt to your situation. sounds bad for me

[radkid10]

Originally posted by Grek:

Originally posted by Thit:

@Grek - its not THAT random, you can customize everything else about your scenario. what you drop with, whats nearby, whats scattered on the map, starting research etc. custom characters seem like a logical step.

random characters in vanilla kill the charm of game imho. here is how i see it: you even dont need press random button. you just make kill team and relax instead of adapt to your situation. sounds bad for me

there's a skill cap you max all the skills they will start to Decay and go down you can't keep them all up the rate of Decay is insane and your skill points go down by 70 per game hour if you Max all your skills to 20

[Raine]

Originally posted by radkid11:

Originally posted by Grek:

random characters in vanilla kill the charm of game imho. here is how i see it: you even dont need press random button. you just make kill team and relax instead of adapt to your situation. sounds bad for me

there's a skill cap you max all the skills they will start to Decay and go down you can't keep them all up the rate of Decay is insane and your skill points go down by 70 per game hour if you Max all your skills to 20

I just created my first map with the prepare carefully mod and i didnt actually take their skills all the way up to 20, it kinda ruins the fun, thered be no development. i did raise their fighting and medicine skills though. just because i play with randy random as my narrator and in my experience you get harder raids earlier and it CAN happen frequently. not always but when it does its murder with just 2 people which is what i started with. i prefer starting with 1 but then no treatments can be done. and i spend a good 40 minutes customizing my scenario now that i have mods. im not about to open a game just to killed in the first 20 mins

[Greymantle]

Originally posted by OWL:

14.0.5 was released 8 hours ago

https://github.com/edbmods/EdBPrepareCarefully/releases

Awesome Mod thanks! This is what I was looking for.