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RimWorld

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Svela Feb 7, 2022 @ 10:37am
Request to modify colonist warrant value
TL:DR Request to make warrant values dynamic based on pawn wealth, colony tech level and colony total wealth. Maybe also for other faction pawns based on their faction's power and tech level if possible.

With the current colonist warrants the price put on a colonist's head seems to be tied to their value as a pawn. I understand that this is simply because that's how warrants for pawns in general are, but when you have extremely valuable pawns due to mods it becomes ridiculous. I am currently playing as an Ancestral Oni from Oni Of The Rim mod, and the base value of Ancestral Oni are $5600, with my colonist being $8225 due to her quality. This means that when a warrant is placed on my colonist for disposing of hostile outposts or executing raiders I get hit with $9k+ warrants that I would never be able to pay off for several years due to the tribal start. As such, I get severe raids of 10+ raiders with shotguns, rifles, and smgs against my single tribal colonist. Even worse, if I don't have the Ignorance Is Bliss mod that restricts raids and caravans to a certain tech level based on mine, and I don't tick the "Restrict Quest Events" option, then I will be raided by spacer level pawns with power armor and laser rifles.

What I am requesting is a mod option that allows us to choose how warrants are placed on player pawns. Being able to switch the value at will so it's based on tech level, percentage of total colony wealth, pawn value, or a combination of the three would be ideal. Alternatively, the default could be that the warrant is still based on the colonist's value, but then modified based on the tech of the colony and the overall colony wealth so the value of the warrant is increased or decreased based on those other modifiers. You could even potentially make other warrants on non-player pawns work that way, where warrants for more technologically advanced pawns from more valuable factions are greater in value, while those from less powerful factions are worth less.