How do you stop rushing and enjoy the game?

[Ronin-XIII]

Running into a personal issue and curious what others might have to say from their personal experience.

So I love the idea of building a colony, defending it, and sort of role playing stories a little. (Sometimes with mods and/or developer mode to help make the style smoother.) Think about the game a lot and what to do in it.

The problem is whenever I start playing I find no matter how much I customize the pawns I just end up on speed 3 and not just enjoy the moment. It just feels like a chore or holo.

Again this is a personal thing and think this game is amazing. Just wondering if others have had this issue and how they were able to slow down and enjoy the game more. I just feel like I enjoy watching people play and tell stories of the game more than I do playing it.

Thank you.

Ps. I am aware I can technically go speed 1. My issue really doesn't matter logical sense and should be easy to fix but just doesn't work.

[Gandalf The Queen]

One thing that helps me (as someone with ADHD) is I actually put on a show or something to keep me engaged while i relax and take my time with the colony, i do usually play speed 2 but it helps me not wanna skip to the action sort of thing

[JD]

This usually happens to me when I am tired and I should stop playing. Or when I screwed up and I'm trying to fix it ASAP but I keep screwing up more and more, it's like an avalanche.

It sounds like it is total boredom in your colony, nothing happens and you don't have any goals. Have you tried to switch to another storyteller and increase difficulty? Or maybe this game is just not your cup of tea.

[DaTank]

Do you avoid quests you think are to dangerous? Have you tried using fewer mods? How do you start out your customizing with characters? Have you considered different play styles, such as made up scenarios?

Your problem is you always have the same goal when you start up a new colony. Have different end game goals that aren’t the same, build up your own type of scenario on how you’ll play.

[ichifish]

I find that when I have too many goals or focus on getting everything perfect I tend to ignore the story stuff. These also tend to be my least enjoyable games. I haven’t had a problem with x3 since I stopped pausing. Now I need x1 just to be able to think.

[Shas'O O'Kais]

Some people treat Rimworld like The Sims and others treat it like an RTS basically.
I think you're just a little further on the RTS side of the spectrum.

I am the same way though. The story elements are definitely secondary for me. I enjoy looking into that stuff now and then when i'm in the mood, but most of the time i'm just building, expanding, focusing on goals.

[ShadowTani]

Personally I love planning out the colony, so I end up pausing and laying down blueprints quite a lot inbetween the pawns doing the chores I give them. While they do their thing I keep thinking about what to improve, what's the next facility I should aim for etc.; I've developed quite a long list of facilities I like to have in any given colony so I end up doing that up until late-game.

I generally also tend to take on as many quests as possible (except the ones that lead to "winning" the game), especially if they reward rare or desired items and resources (I turn off faction approval and honor rewards when no longer needed to increase the resource reward options), this keeps me constantly on my toes as opposed to waiting for any event to happen. I might skip quests I'm sure I can't do though due to lack of facilities or resources, but then make it my goal to resolve that lack as soon as possible going forward. Royalty expansion make quests a lot more interesting imo.

And yeah, I always loved to roleplay with my colony, giving the various pawns different ranks and roles according to how competent they are. Royalty improved upon that aspect for me by introducing titles. Ideology pushed it even further by giving my colony a defined theme and playstyle to cement my roleplay. Ideology's rituals and such also help break up the monotony a bit think. Therefore I always recommend the DLCs if you want a more interesting game experience.

[failsafe]

But what does speed 3 has to do with rushing?

I spend most of the time on "3" - which is funny thing, because when I build something I tend to pause the game, so I play on pause or on 3, almost never on 1 or 2. But for me rushing is more like beelining to get somewhere. For example: you want to have spaceship techs as soon as possible, so you rush to have them. Me - not really. In my recent gameplay I'm doing almost no research, Im just researching things that I need and never in advance. So, while I play on 3 I seem to enjoy the moment ;-P

[Riepah]

I like to listen to music or podcasts while I play, and I basically spend all of my time on speed 1. I thoroughly enjoy a slow pace in games like this - the process of slowly but surely building up from humble beginnings is highly satisfying to me, and I enjoy the peace and quiet when things go well for a time.

I think I can feel your pain, OP. Playing on higher speeds would make me appreciate the game a lot less, so I am very glad that I don't feel the urge to do that and that I can play on Speed 1 without getting bored, for the most part.

[St3amfails]

Depends whats gong on. Sometimes nothing much is happening beyond harvesting crops and laying floors, so speed 3 works great to get the mindless repetition out of the way. Other times, theres a lot going on so speed 1 makes more sense. There is no right or wrong speed. Its all situational.

[Steelfleece]

I usually slow things down by being a total pain in the ass micromanager, especially when there's a small population.

[Kamis[Fhtagn]]

For me it's all about violence ^^ in early game i like to focus on colony prosper to prepare ground for war crimes stories. Like one time i had savage tribe raid with clan chief. I've capture him and keep ordering warden to bash his head to the point i made him basically vegetable (40% conciusness) which made him perfect worker for my tea plantation.

Neverless it's mostly building, defending base and trying to survive scenario. With over 500h+ gameplay i've escaped planet only once. For fun.

[Inopnatum]

Meanwhile me playing with 9k Ticks per second let the ticks pass away as fast as possible :(

[UltimateTobi]

I ALWAYS play on speed 1. It basically forces you to savor the moment.

[Ishan451]

I have the opposite issue... i am playing almost exclusively on Speed 1..... there is to much to micromanage.

[whatamidoing]

I almost always do speed 3, but with frequent pausing to do things. Playing speed 1 nopause is kind of fun as something you can mostly leave running in the background while doing other things.