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Being overpowered is every build in Cyberpunk.Mine is to sprint into clusters of enemies and in fractions of seconds where they are still processing what just happened beating them unconscious with a dildo.
You just choose your flavor of murder to master.
Can't play without it. Guns are vastly more dangerous and between the different aiming and firing options and the suppression mechanic allows much more room for strategy. I like to set up fire teams with a machine gun laying down suppressive fire to drive enemies into cover, a grenadier to hurt them in cover, and a rifleman to take accurate three round burst shots while flanking.
Combat Extended is also a big name, but I would let those who actually played it speak about its merits.
I mean, if your stance towards games is total min-max, then yeah, I guess? Nothing wrong with that, but at least for myself, most of the reason I play these games is for the roleplay value. I'd be completely happy even without any meaningful gameplay around children, but we'll probably get lots of that anyways.
On the other hand, from a pure gameplay design standpoint, trading food for morale boost isn't bad game design. At the most basic level, as encapsulated by Sid Meier and loosely summarized by me, "the most important aspect of a game is decisions, and making meaningful ones". Or something like that. So deciding if you want to risk a bit more food consumption for extra labor and a morale boost (morale often can be hard to manage sometimes, in my experience, even with things going well. Especially once wealthy starts going up and your colonists start getting unreasonably needy. Now you can balance that extra morale requirement of wealth with the wealth to sustain children, etc.) seems like a pretty good decision to rack your brain with.
Except...the bit talking about children specifically mentioned them making their parents (and probably other colonists) quite happy. So having some healthy children around could be functionally useful as a constant morale boost even if the child isn't going to be meaningfully contributing in any other fashion.Well first, if you're in a situation where morale is a serious concern you are not in a situation where "raise a kid" is a viable option especially not when the logical negative outcome is "colony is not super jazzed the kid died."
I'd still expect that the game will do something to give them some sped-up path to reaching adulthood, other than just the vats, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was something you could configure. Some people do just enjoy a realistic challenge.
"helpless hindrance" is a feature not a bug in vanilla Rimworld. Got both your legs chewed off? Oh well. Unless you're advanced enough it sucks to be you.Yeah that's why you avoid getting your legs chewed off. If children are useless throughout the entire projected life of a colony they aren't a feature to play with they're just something to avoid.
Sims is a vastly more compressed timescale, though. At least, in Sims 2, which I'm most familiar with. 60 days in Sims is the average lifespan, which is about 1 day:1 year timescale. For Rimworld, 60 days is a single year. I'm not accounting for differences in day length, but thinking very anecdotally here, they feel about the same length.
