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Instead of describing what I'm talking about I'll just list mine:

The Three Nopes

Three glitterworld residents crash land on a RimWorld. They look around and immediately say "nope" and work tirelessly to escape.

-Crashlanded Scenario

-No Recruiting

-No Trading

-Spawn in AI core when needed

I like to play this on 500% and treat it like a race. I use Prepare Carefully and mostly stick to the point limits, but its ok if you go over, they are fancy-pants glitterworlder's after all

The Lonely Incel

Disgusted by the cyber-orgies and desperate to meet a more traditional woman, one young man flies to a Rimworld to win the heart of a fair lady.

- Rich Explorer Scenario

- Recruit 1 female pawn only (no males)

- Boosted research

- Max melee stat and longsword on spawn (he's studied the blade)

- Very low social

This one is tough. I've only ever won on 500% once. I had to abuse/get lucky on calling in friendlies

That's my Personal Space

Three nepo-babies in-route to their private trust-fund planets crash land on a Rimworld. Private-schooled and exceptionally educated, they are each extremely proficient at one non-combat skill (you can do two skills like construction and crafting and I won't call the cops). They have an extreme distaste for the local poors and will not live with them

- Starting pawns are full of negative social traits (abrasive, volatile, etc)

- Starting pawns can live in a bunker, but all recruited pawns must live outside of the bunker

- Starting pawns will never help recruited pawns

- Starting pawns only defend their bunker during raids

Cranking the difficulty really helps this scenario. My favorite was when one of the starting pawns somehow fell in love with one of the poors so they were exiled into their own living situation. Later the two remaining starting pawns were killed during the finale and the rest used the spaceship to leave, except for the couple from earlier who remained to live happily ever after

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What are your personal scenarios?

Anyone know why influenced bases are a whole ass Div this league? Are people doing something new or did the drop rate get nerfed?

Anyway here it is:

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skills supported by level 20 crit strike, % increased crit strike chance (Shaper mod)

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I tried allflame fracture orb but can't on an influenced item so womp womp

S1E1

Julie kills Norman in the RV. She refuses to change the story, stating that Ethan needs to grow up. His childishness is weakness. Tabitha comes over and does her "good mom" routine while Julie rolls her eyes.

MIY kills Jim

He says he always liked him and he "always tried so hard." While Jim is far from perfect its easy to assume from Julie's point of view that he's putting in more effort to be a good parent and keep the family together than Tabitha is. Also girls her age often favor their father

Julie Confronts Tabitha

Not long after Jim's death, Julie calls out her mom for lieing to Ethan while doing nothing to protect him. She mentions the absurdity in keeping him in a bubble of ignorance when they're in a nightmare world.

Julie Does Drugs

It sounds a bit silly now but in the 80's and 90's this was a signal that this person deserved to be murdered next or that they were secretly the bad guy

"Its me, Thomas"

The MIY loves referring to himself as Thomas, even when shock value is over. Julie has already confronted her mother about caring more about the child she lost than her two living children. The MIY calling himself Thomas almost feels like a jaded teen taunting their mother.

The Pictures on the RV

The last time the MIY calls is right after Julie's confrontation. This was right after Tabitha promised to Ethan that she would always take care of him and always protect him. What does she do? Runs off to the RV without him. The MIY collects the pictures Ethan drew and attaches them to the RV to taunt Tabitha. From what we can tell she doesn't even pick up on the connection. Someone murders her husband, walks into her house and collects her childs pictures and her main concern is the Anghkooey kids.

The Ritual and Jade

The MIY has had a suspicious lack of interaction with Jade. Besides picking on "weaklings" and sowing a little chaos he seems solely occupied with Tabitha and her family. While its impossible to say, I think the "catch" in the ritual wasn't that it was missing a child, but it was missing a parent. Jade couldn't go through with it, nor did he have the courage to stop it.

Lets go back to the line the MIY delivered to Jim. "You always tried so hard." Despite his faults, Jim would never abandon his children to be sacrificed.

"Don't you remember me, Julie?"

Delivered by a Frombie close enough to eviscerate her. While the act is too difficult to speculate on, I think something important here is the concept of remembering. People have pointed out how little the characters seem to care about who they were. Tabitha, Jade, and Victor are the only ones who have memories that seem important.

Conclusion

Julie storywalks to the very beginning and sees then-Tabitha do something horrible. Through storywalking she also realizes that the Town is a sort of game set up to punish Tabitha for what she did and Jade for what he failed to do.

She shrugs off actions we see as evil because she knows its all a game. The "side characters" will either respawn once the game is done or she considers them already dead.

Importantly the storywriters have already mentioned that the characters are very much alive and this isn't some sort of purgatory, however if Julie has seen the same cycle play out over a dozen times and knows everyone always dies in the end, then killing a random like Elgin a couple days before he gets Frombie'd is easy to justify.

There's probably a million holes in this but its interesting

Oh and there's a little bonus. With this point of view Season 4 MIY is not a totally underwhelming mastermind, but a teenage girl who thinks she's slick

"There's no such thing as monsters, honey, and if there's no such thing as monsters, then that means that Norman's still alive"

A nonsense line delivered by an exacerbated Mom who's tired of mothering. And if a better description of Tabitha exists...

But that makes it stand out. It also stands out when Sara, Marielle, and others make comments about people who die never leaving. Lets keep that logic and see where it takes us. When people are killed in this game, or story, they respawn back in the real world after the story is done or perhaps immediately. Why not?

The first issue we have is not everyone has died by monster. Abby, Nathan, Tilly, the guy in the car with Jade. Sadly I believe they have actually died. My reasoning for this is the Man in Yellow.

The Man in Yellow is mysterious, but if we know two things about him its that he likes to "turn the townspeople against themselves" and he has a disdain for people. Not in an inhuman way. He even seems to like Jim. But he hates weakness. What stops him from walking around touching people and exploding their hearts is that he knows they won't really be dead. He is a monster after all.

Speaking of Jim, The MIY speaks friendly with him then rips his throat out. Through our current lens this is a mercy. He removed him from the game before anyone else could. He even tells Tabitha something close to, "Don't worry, I was the one who killed Jim." He is unsure of what she remembers so its almost like he's reassuring her that he isn't really dead.

Its a stretch, but we're all a bit dumbfounded by Donna's heart attack. Its hard to say because she's constantly drinking something, but perhaps Sophia did something to her, taking another person the MIY likely respects out of the game and making it even easier to purge the weaklings.

What do you think? Did I miss something? This is obviously a Sub-Theory, it doesn't explain the entire plot but it could be important.

EDIT

One more thing, if we see the Boy In White as a monster, then when he pushes Tabitha out of the lighthouse he doesn't yeet her through a portal, he just kills her. This might explain why he apologizes so deeply before he does it. Even if its not technically a murder it feels that way

There are two types of barren women. Those who can't conceive and those who can't carry. A friend of mine is the latter. She was told as a teen she would never have kids. After she became active and starting having issues she spoke to a specialist who told her she was having miscarriages.

Its possible that Fatima is the same, so lets walk through a rough timeline, including the likely plot that they dropped

Fatima is pregnant, Smiley is still alive

Fatima is not doing well, which is expected for women who cannot carry

Tilly tries to help with the Tarot cards. Fatima is reluctant but humors her. Crow flies through window

~~~~~~ (Dropped Plotline)~~~~~Tilly remembers a ritual that her grandma taught her. Fatima agrees and they light candles and rub essential oils on her belly or something like that. Completely harmless, except they are in a place where rituals are dangerous. Fatima unknowingly sacrifices her child~~~~~

Smiley dies and his immortal essence is set to be born again. Typically this would be from one of the Frombies, except now Fatima is a Frombie who just hasn't fully converted. This is why Smiley is so surprised

~~~~~Someone tells Ellis or Boyd about the ritual. Tilly is murdered.~~~~~

The narrative purpose here is to add complexity to the Frombie/Ankooey kid plotline and it still fulfills that, but most of us are scratching our head as to how it happened.

This was cut mid-production, likely for the best. Also this explains the random Tilly murder, the character was no longer needed.

Dropping a little edit here. I'm sorry if I made anyone think they were getting information from one of the writers of the show. I still believe this is a more sensible and satisfying plotline, that the writers had something similar, and it was not only dropped but dropped at the last minute so we still have unexplained vestiges.

Picture not necessary, its a platform with stairs. The only flourish I add is a moat, 2 blocks deep 1 block wide. I've been using this for years

3 months ago I made it until 2am until the zombies collapsed it

Last night I swapped out the "stairs," which were just ascending cubes so the zombies had to jump, with a clean ramp. This base only lasted 2 hours into the horde

The only game setting I have changed is 16 zombie horde nights because in the past I'd get bored waiting for more to spawn

Theories:

Connected path vs Disconnected path - The ramp strategy is a connected path. When 2 or 3 zombies are on this path it is considered blocked and the rest target structure. The jump blocks show a disconnected path so that even if there are 3 zombies at my stabbing window the rest still want to use the disconnected path to get closer

Cobblestone disrespect - I've never seen the math laid out, but I think we all know about how the zombies will attempt to smash through a wood block instead of taking a long path around, however a concrete block will deter them. Maybe something was changed so that when they see a structure supported by 4 cobblestone pillars they decide that smashing two cobblestone blocks is a short enough "path."

After the first blood moon I use a completely different base with electrical traps. Also I know there's a million base designs on youtube but I'm trying to go minimalist with it.