Neuro-sama Rimworld storyteller.

[bleak pelican]

Soo, a couple of days ago Baa made a comment about integrating Neuro into Rimworld (<#neurotic-neurons message>).

I'm not quite doing that, I'm building a mod to add a new storyteller to the game (and a few more things) all themed around Neuro.

Currently Neuro is just a copy of Randy Random but I plan to change her behaviour to fit more Neuro's cute/wholesome moments and unhinged moments, its going to be a quite random storyteller which will have difficulty spikes and moments where not much is happening.

To theme it better towards Neuro, I'm adding custom events and factions to the game (like the Swarm)

Feel free to give me suggestions, ideas, feedback and what not!

(mods if this shouldnt be a suggestion or discussion feel free to bonk me)

I already managed to add a few things, but still very much a WIP

[bleak pelican]

I'm starting to implement events, one of which is a cute animal joining the colony, my first test however had to be

[celest pecan]

hmmm, it's been a while since I played/messed around with Rimworld but here's an idea for the neuro storyteller (if you haven't done anything about it already of course)

The description says schizo so maybe the good/bad event distribution looks like this:

Num| Good | Bad | Major Threat
0 60%. 40%. 0%
1 45%. 45%. 10%
2 35%. 50%. 15%
3 20%. 60%. 20%
4 20%. 55%. 25%
5+ 20%. 40%. 40%

Where NUM is the amount of consecutive bad/major threat events.
This distribution would mean that the colony can quickly dive into a death spiral only to be saved by a single good event that gives some time to recover

Or if you want it to be slightly more forgiving/fair, have NUM only be bad events, so inconveniences spiral into a final raid/infestation before letting up on the difficulty

I might see if I can learn some Rimworld modding for this

[bleak pelican]

i havent messed with difficulty yet, but ill definitely keep it in mind, been mostly creating the new faction and events for now

[celest pecan]

Fair, if I coded something would you take a look at it?

[bleak pelican]

sure

ill definitely be glad to get any help i can, its my first rimworld mod and its quite ambitious but thats almost anything i do

[celest pecan]

same

oh dear Lord it's C# not python

[bleak pelican]

yeah C# and XML

also imo the documentation is quite poor

"decompile the source and look through it"... yeah thanks

[celest pecan]

oof

[bleak pelican]

first step on the wiki is: "look if someone else made it first", like why would you ever want to make your own!

[celest pecan]

hahahahaa

[celest pecan]

Thinking new events:
100/0 bits!: Drops 100/0 silver on the colony (technically good but practically raises threat level for more FUN)

[bleak pelican]

ooh thats a good one

i added a random cute animal joins, vedal joins and im working on vedal is mad (where a angry tutel spawns with a ton of hp)

[celest pecan]

Vedal I'm starving: Everyone gets inflicted with a 200% hunger rate illness

should be able to re-use the food poisoning event

[bleak pelican]

yeah for animals joining im reusing the taming event

i pick a random member and make him "tame" it

[celest pecan]

I'm just following the beginner tutorials rn

at least it's pretty thorough

[celest pecan]

I already hate xml

it's all just <><><><><><><><><>

[bleak pelican]

you should have seen what i went through in CS

[celest pecan]

I can feel the struggle already

[celest pecan]

Does Vedal even play Rimworld?

[bleak pelican]

DUNNO

whoops capslock

[runic marsh]

He will once camilla buys it for him

[celest pecan]

True

[celest pecan]

Anyway, if Kaz is going to focus on storyteller/events here's what I hope to do:

New research:
(spacer tech):
Cake Production --> CopyPaster/ChatBot --> Advanced Cake Production --> V3 Model

Cake Production: Alloys you to produce Cake at kitchens
CopyPaster: A 5x research table that requires Cake as an upkeep
ChatBot: Produces silver passively, requires cake to build
Advanced Cake Production: Allows the production of advanced cake at a kitchen
V3 Model: Consumes large amounts of cake and power to produce quest type items, requires advanced cake to build

Items:
Cake: Basically a more expensive lavish meal
Advanced Cake: An extremely expensive lavish meal requiring human flesh, vegetables, uranium

The idea for these cakes is that they work as chemfuel/components for the modded buildings (and to maintain modularity so it doesn't conflict with anything)

CopyPaster: A 5x research table that either requires cake as upkeep or just to build, funny joke but also lets Vedal get through the grindy tech faster (perhaps even in a single stream)
ChatBot: Probably the weakest of them all, I have no idea how I'd code this or if it's even worth it, Produces Silver slowly using power/cake

V3 Model, 2nd weakest idea of them all, used to turn advanced cake into quest items so Neuro can smite her enemies with overwhelming firepower AND to produce reviving/healing mechanites (so we don't lost Anny/Vedal/Neuro to a stray meteor)

[bleak pelican]

yo thats dope

[celest pecan]

That's the idea at least

I'm hoping to steal a vast majority of the fueled kitchen table code

just replace the wood refueling function with cake

[celest pecan]

still learning of course so very much subject to change as I find limitations

[runic marsh]

Don't forget to add the Secret Chicken Nugget Recipe as end-game research

[celest pecan]

Chicken Nugget recipe? I'm afraid I don't know that lore

[runic marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zdYz1RN_kA

This audio is entirely unedited

[bleak pelican]

its basically a duplication glitch isnt it? infinite food

Temmie

[celest pecan]

Now that

would be hilarious

2x chicken nugget for 1 chicken nugget

that's feasible

[runic marsh]

I think it's the opposite, she ends with 0 nuggets it's an item deletion glitch

Anyway it's your mod

[celest pecan]

inb4 it just blows up my computer

[clear heath]

@celest pecan has leveled up! (5 ➜ 6)

[celest pecan]

Thank you Tatsu

I wasn't even aware I was 5