[PC Game] Halforums House: RimWorld Character Creation Thread

I think it's fascinating how there's a division between "I'm making myself as a character" and "I'm making up a fantasy" in what people submit.
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.
And so on. My life has been pretty full of "researching not just information, but also how to apply it to make that information do stuff", which seems applicable to the stat.
 

GasBandit

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As for Intellectual: 6, that stat's only real effect is on research.
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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Exactly! NOT inserting myself into the game! That's deliberate, because if I do, and I die (and/or other bad stuff) then it might reflect on ME! But with complete fantasy, no worries! Just speculation on what "not me" would do!
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 :p it's mostly worked out.
 
Absolutely fucking yes to this.

Name: Ronan "Null" Crowe
Gender: Male
Body Type: Fat
Skin Tone: Fair
Head Size: Average
Jaw Shape: Oval
Hair Color and Style: Wavy and Grey

36 (and justifications)

Shooting: 4 (it's been a while but I know how to shoot and practice with airsoft guns)
Melee: 4 (a couple years of Shorin-Ryu and some medieval swordplay)
Social: 2 (I'm kind of awkward)
Animals: 4 (animals are my kind of people) *
Medicine: 2 (taken some first aid courses)
Cooking: 6 (I'm not half bad at cooking) **
Construction: 1 (I'm clumsy with a hammer)
Growing: 3 (I do some gardening)
Mining: Noooope (I get creeped out in tunnels)
Artistic: 2 (I do some writing)
Crafting: 4 (chainmail/armoring) *
Intellectual: 4 (I love looking stuff up and learning about it) *

Traits: Night Owl, Too Smart, Glutton

Equipment: Colt M1911-pattern pistol, Grey jacket, black pants, red shirt (In all likelihood...)
@Charon your Crush Scar - Left Shoulder (Closest I could get to healed fracture) entitles you to 2 more skill points or one more interest point. Which and where do you want?[DOUBLEPOST=1500754750,1500754731][/DOUBLEPOST]
Not any time soon. Probably at least a week or two.
still open?
 
I think it's fascinating how there's a division between "I'm making myself as a character" and "I'm making up a fantasy" in what people submit.
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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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.
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. ;)
 
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GasBandit

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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: 0
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
You get two more skill points, or one more interest point, to compensate for Pessimist.[DOUBLEPOST=1501114441,1501114166][/DOUBLEPOST]
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. ;)
SUPPRESSING FIIIIIIIIIIIRE
 
I was assuming vanilla use of intellect and justified it by saying I was publishing and researching various animal husbandry stuff. If it's going to be mostly managerial in nature rather than research could we empty intellect and put 2 in animals, 2 in melee and 1 in artistic?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I was assuming vanilla use of intellect and justified it by saying I was publishing and researching various animal husbandry stuff. If it's going to be mostly managerial in nature rather than research could we empty intellect and put 2 in animals, 2 in melee and 1 in artistic?
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 :p), 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.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Punchy bashy point please. Thanks for being tolerant of all the changes.
Heh, ok.

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?
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.
 
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
 

GasBandit

Staff member
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....
Then for your sake I hope we land somewhere in the north, but that's not a given :p 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.
 
Then for your sake I hope we land somewhere in the north, but that's not a given :p 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 her :p
 
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! :heart:
 
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