Awesome! I'll see if a certain hobo is interested as well.
[PC Game] Halforums House: RimWorld Character Creation Thread
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GasBandit
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If he is, also decide if you want to start out married or strangers.
Ooh the intrigue!!
My character is loosely based on young me. If I had a smidge more points to spend, I might've put more in melee to make it closer.
But definitely not the hair
As for Intellectual: 6, that stat's only real effect is on research. So, it implies, to me, a deep interest in learning and figuring stuff out. So I gave myself a 6, based on a few factors:
- When I was a kid, there was no internet. So, I didn't go out and play ball for fun. I read the Encyclopedia Britannica, every article, every volume from A to Z. For fun.
- When I was 9, and we got an apple ][+, I taught myself applesoft basic, integer basic, and machine language via opcodes (as I didn't learn about the LISA assembler until a couple years later).
- In 1992, when VB2.0 came out and I was learning it for a job, I took the manual home (because it came with a paperback manual back then) and read it cover to cover. And I enjoyed it.
- Back in the day, I dabbled in blue boxes, black boxes, beige boxes, etc. Not so much as to rip off the phone company, but to learn how that stuff worked.
- To this day, I still like to learn how to do something myself rather than paying someone to do it for me over and over.
GasBandit
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Vanilla, that would be true. However, I'm using the Colony Manager mod, which allows the colonists themselves to assign tasks that normally would require direct player intervention (selecting animals to be hunted, trees to be chopped down for wood, wild animals to be tamed, wild fruit and veggies to be picked, etc, all based on maintaining a given level of their products in storage). However, doing so requires a time-consuming "task" at a special workstation called a "manager's desk," and a pawn's speed at processing what needs to be done and flagging things on the map appropriately is mostly intellect with a dash of social thrown in. As these tasks need to be updated several times a day for effective management, I suspect a lot more people will be managers than researchers
GasBandit
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Well, also, the original halforums house serieses, done in various Sims games by Gusto, the point WAS to make yourself (or at least a representation of your online persona, if not your real life one).
I play a little faster and looser
it's mostly worked out.
Yeah, I don't know if people are aware of this, but I'm not actually a cannibal.
still open?
GasBandit
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Yeah, I'm calling sunday the deadline.
My first run of most games, I try to approximate myself (as I see myself) as much as possible. Subsequent playthroughs are another story. I was actually quite surprised at just how closely my character in HFA's experience paralleled my own.
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I think I took home the entire DEC VAX/VMS manual when my college threw out the outdated version. I had it for a looooong time. And we're talking about a manual that probably stood three feet high/wide depending on whether you just stacked all the individual volumes in a pile or actually mounted them on the wire frame that ran the length of the table.
--Patrick
NAME (First/Last): Matt "General Specific" Brice (shortening the nickname to GenSpec or the like is fine)
GENDER (M/F): M
BODY TYPE: Average
COMPLEXION: Pale
HEAD SIZE: Average
JAW SHAPE: Oval
HAIR STYLE and COLOR: SPSLeon, Brown
Shooting: 2
Melee: 4 (+1 interest)
Social: 3
Animals: 4 (+1 interest)
Medicine: 4
Cooking: 0
Construction: 4
Growing: 4
Mining: 4
Artistic: 0
Crafting: 5 (+2 interest)
Intellectual: 4 (+1 interest)
AGE: 18 is fine
HEALTH ISSUES: none
TRAITS: Hard Worker, Pessimist, Healthy
EQUIPMENT: dark blue jacket, black shirt, blue pants
knife
Animal - Female Labrador Retriever
Edit: Got it, Gas. Added 2 to shooting since I am just a really bad shot and not an imminent threat to anyone standing around me when I pick up a gun.
GENDER (M/F): M
BODY TYPE: Average
COMPLEXION: Pale
HEAD SIZE: Average
JAW SHAPE: Oval
HAIR STYLE and COLOR: SPSLeon, Brown
Shooting: 2
Melee: 4 (+1 interest)
Social: 3
Animals: 4 (+1 interest)
Medicine: 4
Cooking: 0
Construction: 4
Growing: 4
Mining: 4
Artistic: 0
Crafting: 5 (+2 interest)
Intellectual: 4 (+1 interest)
AGE: 18 is fine
HEALTH ISSUES: none
TRAITS: Hard Worker, Pessimist, Healthy
EQUIPMENT: dark blue jacket, black shirt, blue pants
knife
Animal - Female Labrador Retriever
Edit: Got it, Gas. Added 2 to shooting since I am just a really bad shot and not an imminent threat to anyone standing around me when I pick up a gun.
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GasBandit
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You get two more skill points, or one more interest point, to compensate for Pessimist.[DOUBLEPOST=1501114441,1501114166][/DOUBLEPOST]
SUPPRESSING FIIIIIIIIIIIREEdit: Got it, Gas. Added 2 to shooting since I am just a really bad shot and not an imminent threat to anyone standing around me when I pick up a gun.
GasBandit
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Basically, it'll probably break down to 2 or 3 managers for every researcher. No guarantee which you will be on any given day, and it will most likely change day-to-day (research and managing are both low-priority assignments). Research usually goes to whoever calls "dibs" first in the morning who doesn't have anything else more immediately critical to do (like harvesting, cooking, or crafting), and then they stick with it until they get hungry or tired, and then someone else will jump on the workstation when it goes vacant. Managing, on the other hand, can take 10-30 mins per task assignment, after which the manager(s) will then leave their desks for 2-4 hours to go do real work. So, there will be more managers than researchers, but more time will be spent on research than on managing.
Given that you have no passion for intellectual work (you didn't put ANY interest points in it, you must hate your research job
), you'll most likely end up doing a little managing every so often, but probably no research. I can move your points, but your math is off. You're currently 6 in intellectual skill, not 5, so you need to assign one more point.
I seem to only have 4 interest points on my sheet instead of 5. I did list crafting as +2, is that just not represented on the sheet?
GasBandit
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Heh, ok.
Ooops, I'll fix it.[DOUBLEPOST=1501125047,1501124667][/DOUBLEPOST]Revisions
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Miss Squidley Bits reporting for duty and creating her profile as a single lady. No hobo husband.
He declined to join me on this adventure.
He declined to join me on this adventure.
Here I am! Please let me know if I missed anything. I want a polar bear!! I took those animal handling points just for that dream....
NAME (First/Last), Squidley Bits
GENDER (M/F): F
BODY TYPE: Average
COMPLEXION: Pale or Fair (whichever is pastier - I pretty much glow in the dark lol)
HEAD SIZE: Average
JAW SHAPE: Heartshaped
HAIR STYLE and COLOR: AHShalf-cover-face/hot pink please if available or medium blonde if not
Shooting: 4
Melee: 2
Social: 6
Animals: 4
Medicine: 6
Cooking: 2
Construction: 0
Growing: 4
Mining: 0
Artistic: 6
Crafting: 4
Intellectual: 0
For a grand total of: 38 (36 plus two for the scar)
INTERESTS:
Social: 1
Medicine: 1
Artistic: 2
Crafting: 1
AGE:
18
HEALTH ISSUES: (Just adding one here because if I made this realistic you would be up all night adding it into your game and I would feel bad lol)
Scar right arm
TRAITS:
Industrious
Sanguine
Silver-tongued
EQUIPMENT:
White shirt, black pants, hot pink jacket please
pistol
NAME (First/Last), Squidley Bits
GENDER (M/F): F
BODY TYPE: Average
COMPLEXION: Pale or Fair (whichever is pastier - I pretty much glow in the dark lol)
HEAD SIZE: Average
JAW SHAPE: Heartshaped
HAIR STYLE and COLOR: AHShalf-cover-face/hot pink please if available or medium blonde if not
Shooting: 4
Melee: 2
Social: 6
Animals: 4
Medicine: 6
Cooking: 2
Construction: 0
Growing: 4
Mining: 0
Artistic: 6
Crafting: 4
Intellectual: 0
For a grand total of: 38 (36 plus two for the scar)
INTERESTS:
Social: 1
Medicine: 1
Artistic: 2
Crafting: 1
AGE:
18
HEALTH ISSUES: (Just adding one here because if I made this realistic you would be up all night adding it into your game and I would feel bad lol)
Scar right arm
TRAITS:
Industrious
Sanguine
Silver-tongued
EQUIPMENT:
White shirt, black pants, hot pink jacket please
pistol
GasBandit
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Then for your sake I hope we land somewhere in the north, but that's not a given
You might have to settle for a regular bear, otherwise. Presuming it doesn't claw your face off while you're trying to tame it.
Well, I assume she's used to that, given the....creatures she's managed to tame to live with herThen for your sake I hope we land somewhere in the north, but that's not a given
GasBandit
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More mod changes:
I have replaced Headgear Frame with Show Hair With Hats because the former didn't work right with the multiple new layers introduced by Apparello.
I have replaced Headgear Frame with Show Hair With Hats because the former didn't work right with the multiple new layers introduced by Apparello.
Did you add Outfitter?
Okaaaaay. Changes. Thanks for giving me my red hair by the way.
Growing: 3
Crafting: 5
Intellectual: 2
Interest:
Melee 1
Crafting 1
Take off intellectual entirely. THANK YOUUUUU!
Growing: 3
Crafting: 5
Intellectual: 2
Interest:
Melee 1
Crafting 1
Take off intellectual entirely. THANK YOUUUUU!
GasBandit
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Yes. I've added Outfitter and Save Storage and Outfit Settings. For some reason I thought I posted I did, already. Whups.[DOUBLEPOST=1501179216,1501178787][/DOUBLEPOST]
Okaaaaay. Changes. Thanks for giving me my red hair by the way.
Growing: 3
Crafting: 5
Intellectual: 2
Interest:
Melee 1
Crafting 1
Take off intellectual entirely. THANK YOUUUUU!
I am a researcher and now also the chair of the department, soooo...either role is going depict me just fine. :-\
