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Well, now I know for sure I'll never use future editions.

P-18, ZAP Scout F!

I think I hit the site jackpot, weather-wise. Summers don't get so hot that my freezer stops working, and winters, while they are indeed cold, can usually be kept at bay with nothing but torches in the smaller rooms.

I just wish I knew what the Storyteller was up to. The previous year was marked by numerous raids and manhunting animal swarms, combined with a cold snap near the mid-point of autumn that killed all of my crops early. The colony ran out of medicine due to all the attacks, I lost most of my pets, and food became so scarce near the end of winter that a single bad day's hunting could have started a tantrum spiral.

This year has been completely raid-free. There have been multiple animal migrations. My populace is booming. I have nearly 100 prepared meals with nearly a thousand raw meat alone in frozen storage. Beer production has started. Last night not one but two escape pods crash-landed in the same game-day. I have meds to treat a number of wounds. Just last caravan, I actually turned a small profit. Aside from a flash storm starting a fire well away from my base (which was put out by a rainstorm a day or two later), life is pretty idyllic.

So what's going to go horribly wrong?

So I just picked this up, and I'm liking it so far. I'll probably mod it at some point.

For now though, any secret tips for beginners? I went through the tutorial, and I picked up some of the basics, but I can see there's still a lot to learn.

DR applies only to final damage, which would be one step after the multiplication of the critical hit.

Examples:

Spoiler: 2 DR (click to show/hide)

Mercenary A attacks Archer B!
Autohit!
10-5=5-2=3 Damage!

Mercenary A attacks again!
Autohit! Crit!
10-5=5x3=15-2=13 Damage!

Spoiler: 2 DEF (click to show/hide)

Mercenary A attacks Archer B!
10-5-2=3 Damage!

Mercenary A attacks again!
Autohit! Crit!
10-5-2=3x3=9 Damage!

The reason we did this was to widen available design space. Otherwise you may as well replace any instance of DR with DEF/RES. Why would we even come up with a new term if it just worked the same?

Because DR is faster and simpler to type or say than DEF/RES? I figured that was implied.

Also there's absolutely nothing I can find in my handbooks about DR being subtracted after Total Damage has already been calculated. Maybe I'm missing something.

I picked up Rimworld during this sale. It's not actually on sale, apparently it never is, but I also hear that the price will actually go up some day. Since I've been meaning to give it a whirl for some time, I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet.

You all realize that the Various Nonsense board is going to turn out to be the villain right?  And all the heroes will go into a great climactic battle against the Mobile Battlefortress manned by penguins.

Manned by ponies, surely. The great enemy, thought to be banished forever, returns for vengeance.

Crobat might get dark moves, but I wouldn't send it against psychic types unless no other options were available. Its poison typing just makes it too vulnerable, and Dark moves were all based on Special back in GenII; in other words, not benefiting from Crobat's solid Attack.