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My mental eye sees a morbidly obese survivor wearing a Make America Great Again cap driving around on a mobility scooter and toting two M-16's while going YEEEHAW!

Honestly, I think Kickstarter is fine as such. The list referred earlier contains many great games. It is the stretch goals and Early Access that are deadly traps.

Extra goals might include things requiring restructuring of the entire game, which in turn can blow up the internal game logic and all schedules. EA, on the other hand, can form a toxic community around the game that poisons it. This can happen either by destroying the developers motivation to work on the game or by a small, loud group driving the devs into taking the game into a harmful direction. (IMHO this happened with Mordheim.)

These risks are especially true with newbie developers who might be too personally invested into the game. Only game that has burned me in EA due to the developers just being a bag of lying dicks is Spacebase DF-9, where DoubleFine just abandoned the game and declared it complete. In my case, that just landed the company on my Never-Buy-Anything-Ever-From-Them -list. Plus reminding of this story whenever any of their games come up elsewhere, as surely it shows their unreliability regarding customers. 

My current pet peeve: the game should treat predators hunting your colonists and/or animals as hostile. Right now if your guy runs to your base with a grizzly at his heels, turrets and conscripts ignore it untill you manually order it to be fired at.

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Quote from: Majestic7 on September 15, 2016, 12:49:35 am

You can increase relations to hostile factions by capturing their members, treating their wounds and releasing them. If they make it over the edge of the map, you get a relationship increase. So you can potentially salvage the situation that way.

Oh interesting, I did not know that. Thanks!
Bit late now since they've already started raiding me and dying in their droves, but oh well.

That is the point - when raiders are left wounded but alive after you repel them, capture those guys, treat their wounds and release them when they can walk. That will slowly increase the relations.

You can increase relations to hostile factions by capturing their members, treating their wounds and releasing them. If they make it over the edge of the map, you get a relationship increase. So you can potentially salvage the situation that way.

I have a holy quest for you guys - tell me why I should not buy this when I'm back home Monday. You have three days, proceed.

I thought you couldn't make buck by selling organs anymore?

Well, technically land mines are not supposed to be lethal. An infantry mine is supposed to maim the guy stepping on it, causing a casualty that has to be treated and taken to safety. Mines meant for vehicles are another thing entirely, of course. Perhaps the game will differentiate between different types of mines at some point.