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I'd say that ranking doesn't really matter.  Just keep fighting and ranking up until we can battle arena and nano our way into crystals!

Mech legs don't seem to tip over.  Like, there's no weight amount that can cause it to topple.  Someone put legs on one side of the hanger and a chain of blocks, then a track that wasn't touching the ground.  The track's weight couldn't pull it over.

So build big, center of mass doesn't matter!

Wait, am I reading this right?

They start a kickstarter, and they're the first backers for it for 100% of the money.  So as soon as it begins, they're already 'at funding' by putting forth their own money, into themselves.  They've earned nothing, but on paper it shows them as earning a ton.

The way kickstarter works, if the project doesn't reach 100% then no credit cards get charged.  Because it is already at 100%, then ANYONE who backs it will be charged, regardless of how much money is made.  They've already made the 'first tier' project before even starting the kickstarter.  The 'second tier' is at 1mil.  So if they get backers for $500,000 then they don't have to do ANYTHING but because they made themselves start at 100%, that means they still collect the money and produce nothing new.

Is it just me, or is this the epitome of making something and cashing in on it twice, as well as possibly the scummiest kickstarter scheme possible, where they've assured themselves income no matter what happens?

I'm personally holding out for a hellscape map.  Overpowered creatures and tight packs of enemies.

Interesting.  I'm expecting a few more PVE themed servers with vastly raised spawns and quasi-dungeons.  I'd be way in for that.

As a sidenote: the "Space Hulk" mod that was being brainstormed earlier... I find the idea fascinating.

I was thinking about it, and decided that supercold space would work.  The outer hull would be frozen, and nearby rooms would be cold, but a few reskinned geothermal vents could provide heat to the interior, or some power + heat mapgen structures.  You'd end up with warm inner rooms and progressively colder outer rooms.  Spacesuits could provide like -2,500 safe temp for the helmet and suit separately and significant movement penalty.  Glittertech suits could be skintight and suffer no movement penalty, which could either be suits or be a different 'race' of humans with a further safe temp, which would mean that when killed they wouldn't drop the suit, since they're probably designed for each user specially, then give butcher product for scraps of glittertech skinsuit material.

World map could be interesting too.  The biomes could be 'engine' and 'cargo' and 'cryo' and 'command' and such, and have very restrictive mapgen for how things are placed in these areas.  Imagine that in the Engine biome, you get bonus power options straight from the drive, but have issues with radiation and raiders/manhunters who seek out the engine's power.  Or surviving in the more heavily fortified hallways of Cargo biome, with more secure walls and compartments, but occasionally suffering power outages as things happen on the Engine side off-screen and power goes down for a while.  Or in Cargo, you can get events similar to the 'crashing ship' mod, where it shifts cargo along z-axis and causes whole structures to 'drop' into rooms, as if the containers were moving on rails, obliterating things in the spot but moving in hoppers full of stuff.

The biggest thing is making worldgen VERY strict.  The map would essentially have to be pre-made by hand.  Any random allowances on the walls could result in overlap or gaps which would ruin the ship's structure.

It works well with the existing setup too.  Rooms can be darkened, and might hold hydroponics, or mechanoids, or caskets full of megascarab!  Also might work better to just force the edges to be unroofed, and to have a permanent poison effect at 9,001 strength.

Another way to deal with snipers is to get your colonists to wear personal shields.  Your civilian colonists can wear shields, and your colonists good at shooting can shoot back because they should be armed.  Most shields will crack after 1-2 hits, but with luck that'll get your guys inside so your military can respond.