Request for separating darkness event from core

[freijie]

While being cool from coding point of view, Darkness event is really bugging me, there are several issues with it happening during early colony stages.

• Duration is so long that drafted pawns disable drafting automatically, making this event a micromanaging nightmare < biggest issue, colonists often decide to take a nap and die in a hallway with a couple of unlit tiles, and they run away from enemies to unlit areas sometimes as well.
• Audio effects sound out of place in rimworld, especially the sfx for event end.
• For me it bugged once by pausing the game after each tick, I coudlnt reproduce it to get the log, though.

Basically it forces you to design the whole base with the main focus of countering this event's effects, which i find quite annoying considering how out of place this event is and how discruptive it is during early stages of colony expansion.

Would be nice to have it as a toggleable feature via hugslib menu or make it a separate mod. Together with super-animal events, actually - they are cool but still feel somewhat out of place in rimworld's sci-fi setting as well.

[k4iser88]

I disabled it in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RimWorld\Mods\Core_SK\Defs\IncidentDefs

in the "Incidents_SK_events" XML file you can actually set to "0" the chance of certain events, basically making them impossible to happen.

-<IncidentDef>
<defName>Darkness</defName>
<label>darkness</label>
<targetType>BaseMap</targetType>
<workerClass>SK.Events.IncidentWorker_BlackVoid</workerClass>

**<baseChance>0</baseChance>  <--- THIS IS THE PARAMETER YOU WANT TO CHANGE TO "0"**

<category>ThreatBig</category>
<minRefireDays>45</minRefireDays>
<earliestDay>60</earliestDay>
</IncidentDef>

You can do this for other events you find out of place (super animals) or others, just search them in the events files and set their chance to "0".

[freijie]

Yep setting it to 0 or commenting out works, but updating from git is a pain this way,

[SmokeyUnicycle]

It breaks immersion and really just isn't very fun IMO.

I just sigh when it occurs.

[Blothorn]

At the very least, it should have the description updated to specify "indoors in a lit area"; I recently got it for the first time, dutifully pulled all my pawns indoors, and suffered an immediate total colony wipe because I have been sloppy about indoor lighting.

Another thing that bugs me is that it is a death sentence for pawns far from base if they are slow or the map large. I can live with events like the razor rain that substantially threaten isolated pawns, because they are a bit random and you can at least minimize the risk by clever movement, opportunistic tunneling, etc. The darkness is a simple "The storyteller has decided that this pawn must die. So sorry."

[Rhyssia]

It shouldn't be too hard to separate Eternal Darkness and Darkness into the "Darkness_SK" mod

I agree that in most scenarios Darkness is a death sentence for a colony.

[SPomelov]

Agreed, it's an unbalanced trash not fitting the world. This is ok sometimes, but must be optional and even disabled by default.