Vine009

Keep getting the following error:

[Modcheck] using outdated Modcheck.dll. Update all outdated Modcheck.dll files and/or load Modcheck mod in the modlist

The problem is that I don't have a mod named "Modcheck". I don't even remember ever intalling such a mod. Does anyone else have similar problems? A quick fix would be much appreciated.

ModCheck was updated to be compatible with new build 2282. But some mods included an old version of ModCheck. If you install new ModCheck by yourself, the old versions of ModCheck in your other mods won't be used.

RogueIceberg

Sexual orientation should not be a trait, it should have a different section instead

I've seen this thought a few times, though, so I figured it was worth explaining why it works the way it does.

A major goal in UI design is to reduce noise. You don't want to repeat the same information if the player can easily deduce that information. Otherwise you're forcing the player to read words that don't carry information, which increases cognitive load for no benefit.

For example, every character in RimWorld is somewhere on the spectrum of industriousness. Some are lazy, some are typical, and some are hard-working. However, since the vast majority of characters are of average industriousness, we reduce noise by omitting this information. When the player sees nothing about industriousness, an average level in this trait is implied. Players understand this ~100% of the time.

It's the game UI version of Strunk and White's classic writing advice: "Omit needless words."

The same goes for the other traits in the game - psychopathy, move speed, natural mood, drug desire, nervous...

----buster----

I had a look at the way WeatherOverlay creates its material, which is the MatLoader class, which requires a "path" parameter. It then appends this path to "Materials/" and casts an Object created by Resources.Load(appended_path) to a Material.

I guess my question is now, where is the "Materials/"? Is it an actual folder, or is this just a pseudo-folder system that Unity uses?

Anyways, I'll try looking at the original assets with some sort of program like you said, thanks for the suggestion.

Edit0: couldn't seem to find any legit ways to look into Unity assets.

Edit1: also just noticed that the "moveSpeedMultiplier" in WeatherDefs doesn't seem to have any effect. Is this deprecated? Edit2: I'm stupid, it does work

Materials/ is in the unity assets. I think there is software that can browse unity asset packs.

Honestly I'm not sure. Haven't worked with weather overlays for years myself. Materials are a Unity thing, so if you were to do it you'd have to do it through whatever Unity pathways exist. Maybe there's some Internet help on how to do it.

Best_Remi

probably a bug in that case, that's OP af

Yeah, it's a bug. I can't remember if we fixed it already.

Vallac_de_Guletta

Duct tape. That's missing in rimworld.

That would be funny. Like a special material where you can make literally anything from it - furniture, walls, guns, swords, explosives, computers.

HolyMuffins

creepy breathing

Genius

This one really got me.

somewhereoutinspace

Please, please, PLEASE add an ironman mode so I'm not tempted to use Devmode.

Specifically, ironman would be a toggle at game start. If you have it on:

1. The game is locked to Permadeath and your selected storyteller/difficulty. The options to change these in game would be grayed out.
2. Development mode will never show up on that save file.
3. Encrypt the save file so manual edits aren't possible.

Thanks in advance to u/TynanSylvester if this gets added!

For now I recommend you use the "permanently disable dev mode" tool in the options menu.

Nice of you to catch me right in the middle of snorting a line of coke.

At least my hair looks great.

Probably revealed some wealthy floors/items. Ancient danger opened, perhaps?

Forgot to click "send".

Submitted. I counted dev hours as game hours, in case my hours answer looks impossible. :)

Looking forward to the results!

SirToastymuffin

As a bisexual guy, yeah it was pretty disappointing, prior to his little shit parade I was like "whatever, he just wasn't thinking of it" then he went to defending weird and offensive stances and as much as I separate art from artists, kinda leaves ya feeling burned.

Don't know if he ever had a real response about it or just quietly hoped the years would wash it away. I'd love for him to have understand where he was wrong and the reality of sexuality instead but... I've come to accept it's a game I really enjoy made by a just another guy who would think I live a lie. There are some great mods that fix the sexuality with something better, though, like Psychology which is a great overhaul of everything... psychological, and replaces sexuality being a handicap to steal a slot with a Kinsey scale, variety in orientation, and more logical relationship mechanics.

I'm happy to answer for my words and beliefs, but all through this discussion thread there are vague summaries of things I supposedly said which are simply, provably, absolutely false.

Not much else to say about those except to ask everyone to please check your facts and reconsider what sources you trust. You should just note that when people claim I said some horrible thing they'll never actually quote-link it. The reason is because I never said anything like that.

E.g. I'm accused of saying "bisexual men don't exist" when my actual statement was "bisexual men exist".

Here's the post I made two days after the RPS article attempting to clear up some of the falsehoods that it generated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/5ax9a9/some_notes_on_recent_controversies/

Thyrotoxic

I don't get the backlash tbh. It was an interesting article and a fairly unique take on how sex and sexual preferences are portrayed in media, often simplified into stereotypes, and how that applies again to a fairly unique game. Sure it was a critique, but it's perfectly possible to critique media through a lens and still really like that media!

Tynan could've quite easily explained why he made the decisions he made, from a practical coding point of view, and from a cultural point of view, all without getting super ridiculously defensive and making some pretty homophobic statements (and I agree they were probably from a position of ignorance rather than hate). For some reason video game creators and audiences have still not matured to the point they can understand more indepth, academic, critique without going absolutely crazy about it-unlike literature, TV, film, music etc. But it's also an extremely young art form, that I'd argue doesn't really have traditional roots in music, literature and theatre like film and TV has. It's getting there, slowly.

Tynan could've quite easily explained why he made the decisions he made, from a practical coding point of view, and from a cultural point of view, all without getting super ridiculously defensive and making some pretty homophobic statements

I did explain: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/5ax9a9/some_notes_on_recent_controversies/

Regarding "homophobic statements", I'm happy to answer for anything I've ever said, but I've never said anything like this. It's simply not true, never happened, 100% zombie meme lie that gets passed around. This is why it's always noted in summary, and never with an actual quote or link.

IllCaesar

Tynan dug himself thaf hole. An article outlined emergent story telling in Rimworld and how it manifests from code. It wasn't defamatory, it was quite matter-of-fact and the sort of example you'd use in a game design course to demonstrate how a game can imply something in its mechanics, intended or not. The article even went out of its way to pre-emptively defend Tynan, saying that it's almost certainly the result of placeholder values sue to be an unfinished and unbalanced game.

Instead of seeing the article for what it was, which was mostly lauding the game, Tynan got defensive and instead of leaving it be he started making foolish statements. He started going on about how there's no such thing as a straight or gay woman, that all women are actually bisexual, and that there's no such thing as a bisexual man. In the LGBT community we call that lesbian erasure and bi erasure. The first being the idea that any self-proclaimed lesbian just needs a good dicking from a straight dude. That idea leads to a lot of sexual harassment and is even the basis for corrective rape. As for the bi erasure, it's the notion that somebody's sexual orientation is defined by who they're currently boning. That notion is the basis for the brand of gay conversion "therapy" that originated in the United States and has since been exported to most of the world.

Now I'm not going to call Tynan some atrocious bigot because I don't think he is. He was clearly feeling attacked when he said those things. His statements were very ignorant though and it isn't hard to see where people get the idea that he's bigoted from. It's all about how much you're Tynan when he says that he isn't. Given that violent homophobia is extremely common it isn't hard to understand why people weren't willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Tynan made very poor statements that never needed to be made and people made reasonable conclusions based on those statements. He dug that hole all by himself.

Just in a (probably hopeless) attempt to kill these zombie memes, let me just correct the record.

He started going on about how there's no such thing as a straight or gay woman, that all women are actually bisexual, and that there's no such thing as a bisexual man.

I never said or believed any of these things. They're pure and simple lies. Never happened. Not true. Provably false.

In fact I said the exact opposite and, for example, even *linked a discussion I had with a bisexual man about the game's modeling of sexuality* in my first response to the RPS article.

Wherever you got this information from, please consider re-evaluating how much you trust that source, because they're lying to you.

Edit: Here's the full info: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/5ax9a9/some_notes_on_recent_controversies/

This comic is just strip after strip dunking on the bizarre sacrifices of realism I had to make to get the game mechanics to function well. There are reasons for these things I swear!

Not that I don't love the comics.

Down_To_My_Last_Fuck

Modder term?

Surely you don't mean pawn.

Pawn has been in the game lexicon since the beginning.

[Edit] I meant "game" in general, not Rimworld specifically. Playing pieces are often called pawns in other games.

The only way anyone found out about it was by decompiling and reading the code, though. The word never appears in the player-facing game text.

The7thNomad

I know your inbox is flooded by replies but I just want to know if you browse this sub regularly and if you like our crazy rantings here.

Yes.

I agree, which is why the term "pawn" is not used in the game.

Also keep in mind all colonists are pawns, but not all pawns are colonists. Squirrels and scythers are also pawns. Pawn is a concept from the code; we use it because it's correctly general and it's only 4 letters.

Naes895

A colonist died of infection and one of my dogs got to burying him first. I immediately checked and saw that my labrador retriever made some 'good' art on his memorial.

This is one of the funniest bugs I've seen in a while. Not sure if we should fix it.

Or maybe change just add, "The image is rendered in crude scratch marks."