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This is the point of raids and the like. To throw a wrench in your story, to create conflict and loss, and to pressure you to pursue a victory condition.

Good post, makes sense.

Mentioning victory conditions gets the gears in my head turning, I think they're a good example of my frustration with Rimworld as well. The original win conditions are "build a ship at home, people show up and try to burn your ship down" and "walk half way across the planet to a ship, people show up and try to burn your ship down". I just kinda wish walking half way across the planet was the challenge, and not the end where the people show up to burn down your ship.

It just feels like all of Rimworld's stories inevitably feature "people show up and try to burn down your stuff" at some point... or really near constantly. It's fine, a game needs a focus and Rimworld's focus is base defense, I just kinda wish it wasn't.

Yes, it's a current patch thing, not a 3.8 thing. It both added the trait that causes leaders not to count towards your leader cap, and also buffed the value of the resources from nothing traits.

... you're not going to be able to completely ignore farming by buying a bunch of farmer scientists.

This is actually a totally viable strategy in current patch, thanks to the "leader doesn't count towards leader cap until level 4" trait. You can hire just a ton of those dudes and have each one churn out 32 food for you, without affecting your 8-or-so highly trained council leaders. Then have your farmers do something else more productive.

This expansion is so overwhelmingly busted.

The game has 70 pairs of socks but only one jacket.

Anyway, I mustered up the energy to finish the game yesterday. The start of the game is great, the end of the game is pretty good too, but the middle is just awful. I reached the point where it's like "well I've got nothing else to do but fast travel to all of the remaining bosses" and that's more of a chore than something fun. For an open world game, there just really doesn't seem like much to do in the open world.

I don't know how I feel about the game. There's plenty of stuff I liked, Iono's gym is great, Larry works two jobs, watching Skiddo run up to you and jump around is adorable... but there's also so much stuff that's just... ugh.

I like terraforming as a concept, but I think in game it usually boils down to "this terrain is the best, put it everywhere" which seems kinda underwhelming.

Yes, it's a sword saint magus.

Cat's Grace and Fox's Cunning require +4 items to obsolete, I have not come across any of those at this point in the game, so they're not obsolete for me yet.

Same thing with Mage Armor. Also my current bracers give +1 luck bonus to AC, so I'd either have to find a new source of that or get some +5 bracers to obsolete this buff.

Shield is good, yes.

Doesn't Mirror Image stack with Displacement? Anyway, mirror image is 1 minute/level, displacement just 1 round/level, so I've got mirror image on just in general and save displacement for especially challenging fights.

Reduce person is great, +2 AC and attack for -1 damage.

Heroism, well I don't have a bard so this is my source of morale bonuses at the moment.

Barkskin and Shield of Faith get better with caster levels, so finding rings and amulets to obsolete these is tricky but possible.

With my current equipment, I've still pretty much got 9 buffs. I could get down to 4 with better equipment, but I'd have to get it first.

Admittedly my character is rather designed around buffing the hell out of everything, but it's not like all my other party members are perfectly fine with no buffs. Even if I had a different main character, there'd still be a lot of buffing going on. Still bothers me a lot less than Protective Luck though.

Wrath sure feels like it has a lot more "you expect me to win this at level 3?" fights than Kingmaker did. Like I ran into a succubus that my strongest character -- when buffed -- could hit like 15% of the time, and everyone else only could on a 20... that was kind of an experience. I haven't even completed the first chapter yet and I'm already finding the game a bit exhausting to play.