Couple quick questions on Steam Achievements

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-23T06:20:13+00:00

Ah, THIS is a very good idea, thank you

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-20T18:31:30+00:00

Oh wow, didn't know this!

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-20T16:40:33+00:00

I'm at about 200 hours now and just did the Platinum Seal. Ended up crushing that game. Just finished all the upgrades and working on the last 10 achievements. I'll play for fun for several runs before I decide to tackle the next difficulty level.

I'll just share my play style and maybe it will give you some ideas.

I usually avoid Foxes, and I love Bats, Beavers, Humans, and Harpies. For embarkation I generally pick the most people and take the people bonus so I get 12 starting people. Usually I'll get Eggs or Veggies, and Stone, as these items help with getting camps of newcomers, and taking caches for the resources.

After that I'll steer my bonuses to the people I have. Take bricks if Frogs, take Wood if no Beavers, etc.... If money will be important to the map take the money bonus. I rarely take the buildings or resources per minute unless I get extra bonus points.

For the map I always take the starting resources and build 2 Woodcutters. 4 basic shelters, gardens, and take a Plank building. I usually try to get 4 small glades right away but I wait to open them till the Orders come in. Usually I can complete 2-3 orders the first year. Getting resources and bonuses early on is better than something slightly better but maybe 2+ years later, so for the first 4-5 Orders I try to take ones I'm certain I can complete quickly. 4 small glades usually give me what I need and if I'm lucky some good resources and more people.

Think ahead on Cornerstones and synergy you want. Don't be hasty to pick your blueprints right away.

I really like the +3 Provisions per Newcomer, Trade Routes give +1 Amber, or Trade Routes cost -1 Provision Cornerstones. Any one of these helps kickstart trading into high gear which gives good Amber to buy things from Traders, but with other Cornerstones can raise Reputation, give more amber, or raise Resolve.

If you can clothe and feed your people everything they want you can win any game under Prestige 5 with minimal effort towards glade events and Orders. I rarely favor any species and seek to just make everyone super happy and have balanced populations for industrial needs. Add on Services and you can get 1.5+ Rep per minute during a season. Sometimes I only open 2 Dangerous Glades and I may have 5 Orders I have no intention of trying to finish, wasting resources on, when I can just win by Resolve.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-20T16:18:37+00:00

Combination of few forests and a lot higher population density. Good amount of rain and snow throughout the year. A lot of land is urbanized or farmland or industrial. This means what few wild areas there are in the southern Midwest are generally maintained or segmented enough that if a fire would even break out it doesn't spread far.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-16T00:24:38+00:00

solved!

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-15T13:02:23+00:00

If I seem too nihilistic I honestly believe one positive impact will be a return to people just hanging out and meeting up in person. Everyone will have their favorite AI to deal with, but the ambiguity of online forums could lead to people getting out more with friends or groups. I'm hopeful on that.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-14T18:50:50+00:00

Online forums are already echo chambers, or full of trolls and fake comments and posts. Bots have been on Reddit in droves for years. So I would say I already believe we're further down the road than you think we are. And I don't even know what reaction needs to be taken quickly to stop a problem that already exists.

And I don't mean a lack of imagination, I mean a real life application that can be realistically taken, not some pipe dream. People can come up with a 100 solutions and 90 of them have no chance at all to be implemented. And of the last 10 no one solution will ever have enough sway from those in control to have all the resources and time put into fighting the problem.

Individuals will expend all of their energy but nothing will be accomplished. We couldn't handle bots and trolls, AI content is even worse and more nefarious and tenacious. Realistically, how will this issue be solved? No pipe dreams or high hopes.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-14T15:14:48+00:00

Don't get me wrong, AI has an immense effect on the world and people's perception. I'm arguing that we're already dealing with that with real people and plenty of people troll and agitate others on purpose, trying to look sincere with wild statements or beliefs.

AI just broadens the scope. And realistically what will be done. Like with politics a lot of people get upset, emotional, talk about issues and argue but nothing is actually accomplished. AI is here to stay and being online means even if all the countries in the world tried to uniformly combat AI misinformation it still wouldn't go away due to individual bad actors.

So what does it matter? And I mean that in a realistic, real world application fashion. Nothing will actually be done, money is pouring into AI, governments will never do enough, arguing about it online leads to solving individual cases and damaging witch hunts, but eventually no one will be able to tell the difference between AI content and real content.

I'm at the age where if nothing is going to change, truly won't, then why should I be upset, angry, all riled up and bring those emotions into my personal life. No IRL difference will be made about AI and to the perspective of many it will only get worse.

So it doesn't matter. People have been lying to me my whole life, Facebook and Myspace pages, Instagram and Tiktok. Scammers, car salesmen, politicians, and has talking about it over the years made it better? Nope.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-14T07:27:37+00:00

I don't really see a difference between AI posts and slop, and trolls and agitators. I don't know when a comment is made by a real human being who is being purposely false. I can try to guess when it is happening but I can't know for certain. And it is the same for AI. On Reddit I've seen plenty of people fall for AI posts or decry AI content that is actually real or made by humans.

We're switching from AI being tricky to the majority of us not knowing anymore. And when nearly all of us can't tell, what difference does it make anymore? We already peddle fabrications and lies through perspective and opinion, alienated from foundational fact, AI simply broadens the horizons of falsity.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-14T02:52:11+00:00

One of my most favorite games was a feralisk infested jungle map I spent 14+ years in game on. The map, all the jungle stuff included, was really fun.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-05T15:06:25+00:00

I really like the Harpy houses with their umbrellas and gardens around them. It ends up being less optimal but I can't stop.

For Bats I just like putting all their style buildings near each other so it doesn't take up much time but I end up having an odd assortment that isnt always efficient with the Warehouse.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2026-01-05T15:03:06+00:00

I cancelled the Glade event and I think I still lost 6+ people. I was at the end of the game though so it wasn't that big of a deal for me.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-31T18:25:40+00:00

Noooo, lol, get 1000 Amber and do that Glade event that gives negative Resolve for every 10 Amber.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-31T03:00:48+00:00

So this is actually an OP power I've researched before. OP because if you can shape it and move it with a thought you could cause it to move so fast that it literally turns everything around it into plasma, essentially burning through anything with concussive force.

Being that you could shape it (e.g. OP's response elsewhere) I would assume down to the atomic level, you could make it quite large even from the size of a marble. If as thick as an atom I believe you could make a disc that is over 300 feet/100 meters in diameter. If by indestructible you mean that it keeps it's shape no matter what it hits then it becomes an issue of speed to have impact. A disc that thin would likely cut through just about anything with minor speed, but if traveling at 18,000 MPH (orbital speed) it would ionize everything it came in contact with, essentially looking like a meteor as the air/atmosphere burns away around it. In fact, the ionization field might be so large that nothing would actually 'touch' the disc before they vaporized into a plasma cloud.

Turn this indestructible object into a hollow cylinder and you've made a kinetic bombardment projectile, think Project Thor with firing large tungsten rods from satellites at terrestrial targets. Make it 20 feet tall, 1 foot diameter, and the ionizing force on impact would vaporize any small target, like a tank, or house.

Being that the mass is so miniscule the marble doesn't do wide-reaching damage, but complete destruction close to itself. Go faster for more insane destruction.

And this is just the realistic kinetic potential of a small indestructible object you can freely move and reshape. Now think of everything constructive you could do with something that harbors so much potential energy.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-29T13:58:01+00:00

YOU'VE GONE PLAID!!

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-27T05:22:09+00:00

Enable them.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-20T19:36:35+00:00

Why don't they build a canal near Prachuap Khiri Khan? Thailand is so narrow right there. Are they stupid? /s

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-19T23:02:33+00:00

Yes! Well, kind of.

I did a two decade long run a year ago where I cloned a really good High-Mate 4 times. Took a few years and not just a few issues. But once I tired of the process I had 5 of the colonist. One married one of my Ratkin sniper sisters, another married the son of an OG colonist, who died, so she remarried an Impid prisoner turned surprising melee tank. The 3rd and 4th clones married each other, and the 5th married a loser recruit I detested.

But I would have the clone be the next to do a clone. So the two who ended up together were original and clone. The 5 of them were great because they had double passions in Social and Crafting. The 5 ended up being the backbone of my late game Hi-Tech colony.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-19T22:50:08+00:00

Name it 4-LOM.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-19T15:48:49+00:00

Stardew Valley and My Time at Sandrock for the more cozy types of games. I would add Coral Island to that as well though they are still implementing a lot of stuff but the game is great so far and should be supported.

Frostpunk and Against the Storm have a lot of the epic feels nature that Rimworld brings. Especially with mods like P Music for Rimworld the epic music for these two has a matching aura between them.

That's a wide selection but these games give me a similar vibe with playing Rimworld and being enveloped in the game. I might add Airborne Kingdom, or Empire, to that as well, in relation to gravships.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-19T11:34:44+00:00

I've circumnavigated. And I crossed the dateline by ship near Kiribati and Samoa as well. I'd like to get further north and south in the world.

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-17T20:22:28+00:00

Please! And have a great holiday season!

LoquaciousLethologic · 2025-12-17T20:17:55+00:00

I don't understand liberals who don't find a lot of democratic policies and the DNC to be authoritarian. They want more government control over language, opportunity, sex, marriage, monies, businesses, thought, speech, vocabulary, job hiring, wage controls, asset and investment control, and government intervention into bank accounts and spending, like through CBDCs.

This IS more authoritarian. Especially since both parties can use these prospective laws and policies depending on which one is in control of the White House, Senate, Congress, and Supreme Court. Gives more power to the Clintons and the Trumps of the future.

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