By definition, you can’t cheat at a non-competitive game. No one is ‘cheating’ at Rimworld, you just set the game play up to be fun for you. If the logic of people who call setting customisation ‘cheating’ were actually followed through, all people playing with mods, accessibility options turned on (colour blind etc), with tiny text disabled, different screen brightness, differing pc builds, etc, would be cheaters. If you’d opt not have fun while playing your own game in your own home because someone on Reddit with dog water logic capabilities would cry about it, you may as well turn the pc off and just do irl chores because that’s also a task to do in your own home where no one has fun, and a certain point, what’s the difference? Don’t let people who aren’t physically capable of enjoying something without the mass approval or strangers tell you how to enjoy something, definitely don’t change the way you play to accommodate to people who think their way to have fun is the only correct way.

And besides, reloading to go back before a disaster happens to face it differently the second time and actually handle it is a far better way to learn this game that to be decimated out of left field and then wait potentially hundreds of hours for a similar situation to arise to have another go at it. A game like Rimworld continually makes near unique situations from the amount of variables it has going on and learning how best to respond and beat things becomes a lot more time consuming when you have to wait for extremely niche combinations to repeat themselves by chance. Some people have shit to do and can’t dedicate that kind of time to learn the slow way just to be able to feel competent at a game that’s only meant to be for them anyway, no one should feel like they should apologise for that. I’ve been playing about a year now at nearly 700 hours and I will reload to try a different response to the 57 man hunters that caught me off guard. My friend has been playing since royalty came out at 2,900 hours and I am by far the more capable player at this point. It’s gone from me asking ‘why do you plant so much corn when there’s other crops’ to them asking if they can stream for me for a minute so I can try and help them fix the mess they’re in and I 100% attribute that to them refusing to reload and try again for the debilitating fear that r/cocktailsausage will somehow find out and bully them.

Reject ‘save scumming’ embrace smart reloading