[DEVBLOG#144] First look at Memes and Structures mod!

Thank you!

Oskar Potocki

will every single one of these affect the ideoligion description?

Edith Strickland

dude if you guys manage half of what's here this will make an amazing mod. And your track record states you don't "settle" so ... my usual comment, hype is real. :D carry on o7!!

Dan Gragert

I've been really enjoying Ideology, but man... Once this comes out, I don't know if it'll be possible to play without it.

i guess the first, makes more sense

Simone Baraldi

This is the kind of variety and gameplay impact I've been hoping for since Royalty! Terrific work, Vanilla Expanded team!

Artemis Martin

Gestalt makes me wanna create the commune from Midsommar

Bohemian Romantic

Can't wait for vehicles now so that my cockaine fuled punk nomads can drive around on their bikes and scrap everything in sight

Kamarsennin

Wow, that's massive! Looking forward to this right up there with Ancients. There's just so many mods I use that will work very well with this.

Lennybolt7

"Ungulate" isn't the word you want under Insectoid Supremacy. An Ungulate is a hoofed mammal. I'm guessing you meant "undulate." "Scrapper" doesn't feel like the right name for what you have there, as it makes me think of someone who Scraps things, so they'd be tearing down old things to make new things out of it. The description almost sounds like the pathology of a Hoarder, if you think that works.

John

More small grammar corrections. The description for Fire keeper: "Fire keepers are immune from mood debuff" -> "Fire keepers are immune from mood debuffs" Insectoid herder description: "Insectoid herder is a new role for insectoid supremacy meme." -> "Insectoid herder is a new role for the insectoid supremacy meme." Body modifications: biological precept: "Flesh only should be" -> "Flesh should only be" Insectoid supremacy meme description: "relentless and brutal insects, we should not" -> "relentless and brutal insects. We should not" City builders meme description: "accommodations of a great city, homes, workshops" -> "accommodations of a great city. Homes, workshops" Aristocratic meme description: should have a period instead of a comma Progressive meme: "Machines, factories, drones, a goal" -> "Machines, factories, drones: a goal" Not sure if this should be a colon, but a comma doesn't feel right. Trader meme description: period instead of a comma Light meme description: period instead of a comma Omnism structure description: period instead of a comma Hedonism structure description: period instead of a comma Good general rule: if two sides of a comma can be a complete sentence on their own, and there are no transition words like "and", "but", "or", and "so", then it should be two sentences.

Brennan Tekulve

Typo in Exalted Preisthood meme, Leader: Moralist precept. "morale" should be "moral". Grammar correction in Blood Court meme description: "Bloodshed, corpses, scars" should be "Bloodshed, corpses, and scars" And a request: I think it makes sense to add a charity: abhorrent precept, perhaps associated with the Trader meme.

Brennan Tekulve

OH WOW. I had heard whispers about the amazingness of this but this is greater than I had imagined. immensely looking forward th this!

Correction: For Gestalt's Mood: Shared, "bare" should be "bear" Jeez, this all looks AMAZING. I'm very excited for several of these!

Well, I sure didnt expect this mod to be so big. I know you said "No questions about mechanics" but I was wondering, with Pain: Dont Care precept, are pawns simply unaffected by pain mood debuffs, or do they also not get the conciousness penalty from pain (until pain shock)?

The ENRGY

I'm just saying, but religious orgies are like.. super a thing and could totally see that as something that ties into communal groups. We do the ritual by sleeping with random partners, ect ect. Sounds pretty hedonistic to me. :)

Tyler Brown

Dude, I know this a rough draft, it looks really ambitious but I've no doubt you guys can pull it all off. Looking forward to seeing more about it all in the future!

Con

I believe building your colony out of stone would help with the fire problem

The ENRGY

I wonder if the Insectoid taming ability only works for vanilla insectoid.. We'll see.

Vaculity

Absolutely!

Oskar Potocki

Mechanoid Supremacy will come with 'Salvaged Mechanoid' sculptures that confuse Mechanoid IFF, making them leave the map if enough of those sculptures are found (2 sculptures for each colonist). Insectoid Supremacy makes insectoids non-hostile.

Oskar Potocki

Wow! I hadn't realize how large the scope of this mod was. I've been looking forward for this mod so I'm happy with all the choices though I know this probably will not be available for little while .(Which is fine, I'm patient :) )

The vanilla expanded teams just keeps amazing me with there high quality work. I've been wanting to make a colony with an ideology that reflects that of the church of the broken god from the scp wiki and with this it will be so much more feasible.

Polarbits

You and everyone else that has worked on Vanilla Expanded are amazing mod makers and I can't wait to see what else you have in the works.

CryoAnubis7

Salvaged mechs, as it written

Артем Архаин

wait...that mechaker role, does that mean we'll be able to build our own mechanoids? oh oops i guess thats not a general question

John Labuda

If "corporate" doesnt come with special "necktie" required leader apparel and special ritual "meeting that should have been an email" then is this going to even be worth the MBs?

Venusgate

Thats amazing! Just wanted to add, fire worshipper colony will be viable only before first fire... Especially without slaves. I suggest to remove debuff for fire extinguishing, or replace it with fire starting spree chance on all worshippers, or at least allowing to have several fire keepers. Or this will truly be a rebuild-colony-once-a-week experience

Артем Архаин

Wow this is an amazing piece of information. I'm so looking forward to this. So, you said to not ask question about mechanics, but I want to ask something that's not about mechanics. Are you planning to coop these ideologies with other Vanilla Faction Expanded mods i.e. make certain factions always spawn with certain ideologies or memes?

Qianli Ma

Looking at the memes that penalize fighting two of the most common late game enemies I have to wonder, do they make their respective enemy type passive towards pawns with corresponding "X supremacy" meme? If not, I fear we could end up in a similar situation as pre-1.3.3087's replanting update tree worshippers, either having to exclusively make decisions to avoid the very thing that your pawns should worship, take the massive mood penalties, have designated slave force for abhorrent tasks or trying to find weird meta workarounds. I'd like to know your stance on those particular two memes.

ZenoLord

How will Mechanoid Supremacy work I'm really curious?

Pyroshine

I am absolutely looking forward to using the City Builder meme! It's the only way I like playing this game so I immensely appreciate it! Thank you!!!

Sour Lime

Automation-loving hedonists that worship mechanoids because they admire their ability to party 24/7 without mortal constraints? Yes, please.

Phraxius

Damn, this is gonna add way more than it says on the tin. Can't wait!

Thomas Pyke

Once more i get to see that it was a wise decision to support passionate mod makers.

All in due time, probably by the end of the month, we will see!

Oskar Potocki

This preview is amazing. I only found 1 spelling error: "Pestilance" should be spelled as "Pestilence" in the eschatologist symbol description. I'm so looking forward to this mod.

Zac

When will you make devlog about vanilla expanded outpost?

Mafelusz

For mobile users, download the original image then you can zoom in on it and read it

Runehkt

What the hell, this is amazing. One or two memes already make a fairly large change, this pretty much doubles down on the value of ideology. I have a few suggestions: I absolutely love the gestalt/corporate ideas. I feel like they include a *lot* of awesome content. Is it possible to expand on these? The corporate one could go as far as demanding the player to pay pawns monthly in exchange for additional mood/productivity and maybe additional "hired" workers. I think this one has so much potential it could even become a mod of itself. For gestalt the ability to "sync" with other pawns to share pain, skills and others might be interesting. Thank you once again! You guys are awesome.

Never Sink

Yeah I'm on mobile so that might just be it

michael Wrightson

Hmmm weird, looks fine for me. Could it be that it not loaded it correctly? I assume you’re on mobile?

Oskar Potocki

It’s all on my YouTube channel!

Oskar Potocki

This is so cool. I know you did a video walk through of making a storyteller artwork; have you done one on smaller items etc?

Personally the image is too pixelated to read the details but it does look super exciting with so many new memes

michael Wrightson