Giving colonists yayo

[Illuna]

Is it a good idea to give my cololnists constant yayo during a psychic drone? I have no foil helmets, and everybody is on major break risk when they're not high. What should I do?

[Astasia]

No it's not a good idea, they will likely get addicted and you will have a worse problem to deal with, or they can overdose and die. People on major break risk during a psychic drone can be limited to an area inside your rec room surrounded by art or beautiful objects and set to a schedule of recreation all day. Beautiful surroundings and being at max recreation can counter the effects of psychic drones as long as they don't have high sensitivity. Throw in some lavish meals if you need to.

If you have somebody psychically hypersensitive during an extreme drone you can give them anesthetic to knock them out for the duration, or put them in one of the free crytosleep caskets on nearly every map.

[St3amfails]

psychite tea is your best mood bonus vs minimum downside drug option. the withdrawal is worse than smokeleaf but it doesnt have the debilitating effects that smokeleaf does, and it wont kill like yayo.

yayo is basically a hard pass in any situation. just sell it for cash and avoid all the nasty issues it will inevitably cause

[martindirt]

Like when you take cocaine when there is a weather front. 🤣

[Playzr 🐵]

Maybe you could set them all on full-time recreation so at least that bar is full.

[Illuna]

thanks

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Originally posted by Mr_Melon_Man647:

Is it a good idea to give my cololnists constant yayo during a psychic drone? I have no foil helmets, and everybody is on major break risk when they're not high. What should I do?

sometimes my people got "accidentially" addicted from smokeleafs and there totally useless for days, wekks, even months... often go berserk, destroying legendary art or trying to kill other people.
i can't even imagine having one on yayo trurkey

AVOID THIS.
use teetotaler (or whatever it's called) to produce the stuff and sell, do NOT let them take it.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Astasia:

they will likely get addicted

Not very likely with Yayo. 1% chance per use.

[Astasia]

Not super likely per colonist, but if you have 10-20 colonists there's a very good chance at least one will become addicted during a long drone as it can take up to like 4-5 doses to keep them high for the duration. And if you do it during every drone you are bound to lose somebody to an overdose eventually as well.

[glass zebra]

Hard drugs should been seen as a last resort kind of thing for normal playthroughs and you are usually better off using proactive solutions. The chance to get an addiction or overdose are small for a single use, but if you plan on using them to get multiple people through the entire drone, you will likely get more problems after that. If you care little about a stable life for your colonists and are okay with living by the dice, you can use them of course.

If I do use drugs to keep some problematic colonist (e.g. tons of psychic sensitivity) happy during a psychic drone, I just use smokeleave. It makes them rather useless during the duration (so better to avoid that too) and the buff isn't as big, but getting addicted to it is much harder. Just forcing recreation time in a beautiful room can work too.

Remember for the future that just because someone is barely out of minor break risk at some point doesn't mean that you are out of the danger zone. Misery loves company.