How many colonists do I need?

[マルコ]

Righ now I have 9 colonists in marine armor, is that enough or should I have more?

[dot]

how many do you need for what?

[マルコ]

Originally posted by dot:

how many do you need for what?

not die

[Yaldabaoth]

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[Dutch Person]

It 100 percent depends on how much wealth you have. If you have one colonist with decent equipment, you'll be fine. If you have 100 colonists with only a piece of wood for weapons, you are probably screwed. Equip your colonists according to your wealth and you shoudn't end up dying, unless you're playing on higher difficulties.

[マルコ]

to be more specific, not die on any quest, including the "ride to the stars" one, can't quite remember the correct name
Or can I do that with 1 colonist?

[dot]

You kind of can with whatever number, if you mean the easiest, i personally find it the easiest around 5-7 coloners, just enough to have at least one heavy specialized to 20 at some point for each shooting, melee and medic mainly and maybe crafting and have 1 dedicated to cleaning, other 1 to hauling.
I just find the more you add at some point, you start to loose track of people, if they are doing what they should, harder to adapt and improvise to catastrophes, and way worse warriors, while the raids still scale with the numbers of colonist.

[マルコ]

did anyone put together a chart of "number of colonists you should have per wealth"?

[マルコ]

my wealth is 200k, how many colonists for that?

[dot]

Idk the exact values, I just dont hoard in my colony too much, the only stuff that i let stack maybe is food and not even that much.
In any way is easy to check just see how big balls are your raids, if you can dispatch them easily and want more shiny things or go for a starred quest somewhere else, then go for it, if not, maybe rethink your combat strats or cut down in things you hoard. If you are not playing on commitment mode, there is nothing to fear, if you are playing in commitment mode then keep an escape plan for your pawn always, sacrifice the colony if you have to, at least with colony with 9 or less pawns, at least in late it's pawns the most valuable thing, they have the high skills, the cybernetics, the psylinks, rebuilding another base takes nothing with them now.

[Dr. Uncredible]

Yeah I don´t think you´ll find a number for this, if you´re worried, do this, ask yourself what you need, if you´re handling raids and events without a problem, and have all tasks handled in good time by skilled characters without anything bottlenecking, you don´t need anyone!
Stop all recruiting until you find a niche that needs filling.

[Ann☆ﾟ.*･｡]

up to you, question is, can you manage them? are this pawns useful or just an a s s? can you fulfill their needs? if you cant then you shouldn't add more pawns.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Marcus:

Righ now I have 9 colonists in marine armor, is that enough or should I have more?

The vanilla game is more-or-less balanced for 12-14 pawns. Your tech level, defenses, equipment, wealth, caravan capabilities, pack animals, weather/biome, etc... all impact "everything else." Just plan on 12-14 pawns being what the game is balanced around.

(That seems to be the appropriate amount for vanilla play these days. Originally, it may have been a couple of pawns less than that.)

PS: I have no clue what the DLC is balanced around or if the intent there was to keep it similar in progression/playstyle as vanilla.

[Bababooey]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Originally posted by Marcus:

Righ now I have 9 colonists in marine armor, is that enough or should I have more?

The vanilla game is more-or-less balanced for 12-14 pawns. Your tech level, defenses, equipment, wealth, caravan capabilities, pack animals, weather/biome, etc... all impact "everything else." Just plan on 12-14 pawns being what the game is balanced around.

(That seems to be the appropriate amount for vanilla play these days. Originally, it may have been a couple of pawns less than that.)

PS: I have no clue what the DLC is balanced around or if the intent there was to keep it similar in progression/playstyle as vanilla.

Do you know if that is 12-14 in one colony? If i have 2 colonies with less than 12-14 but more combined would that affect balance? Thanks.

Vanilla and wall light only play here.

[Richard]

Originally posted by Marcus:

Righ now I have 9 colonists in marine armor, is that enough or should I have more?

More the better. Mark some as useful and others as useless. Use useless colonists as cannonfodder during battles. You can also play as psychopath, canibal, with bloodlust and murder colonists to increase your mood massively.

[Hoki]

Originally posted by Bababooey:

Do you know if that is 12-14 in one colony? If i have 2 colonies with less than 12-14 but more combined would that affect balance? Thanks.

Vanilla and wall light only play here.

each colony has their own wealth and their raids scaled accordingly hence you can think of it as 12-14 per colony.