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Personality Plus

The point of this mod is to add a little more personality to our colonists. Their personalities affect the way they think of and interact with each other, as well as their thoughts about the colony population at large and the colony ideology.



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There are 32 personalities in total (to start with, perhaps there will be more in the future). They are divided into four groups. Each group have 8 personalities, all of them with it's own combination on the five main axes:

• Sociality: Introvert / Extrovert
  
• Empathy: Empathetic / Callous
  
• Morality: Principled / Self-serving
  
• Impulse: Calculating / Emotional
  
• Outlook: Positive / Negative

The 'personality generation process' is pretty straightforward, while still being complex enough for making it powerful. This is how it works:

• Backstory and trait allocation: The pawn get their backstories and traits as usual. No backstories or traits are added by this mod, and it doesn't mess with the generation of it in any way.
  
  
• Assigning personality: The pawn now has her backstory and traits. Using this data, a personality is chosen. Traits can forbid certain personalities and act as boosters for others. That means no depressed "Charmers" or kind "Manipulators". Booster traits add probability for a personality to be chosen, but there is still a large random element to it.
  
  
• Assigning preferences: Preferences are based on the precepts in the 'Ideology' DLC. Each precept has a database equivalent and depending on personality, some preferences are not allowed. As an example, a "Caretaker" will never have a preference for executions or raiding.

The 'complete package' of every pawn is put together and calculated, giving them a certain 'alignment value'. That value is related to all other pawns in the game, generating an intricate system of 'who I like' and 'who I don't like'.

The sum of a pawns preferences are also put together into an alignment value in relation to the ideologies in the game. Most important, of course, is the alignment with the own faction ideology.

The results of the 'personality generation process' have different sorts of impact in-game. This is how you will experience it in-game:

• Each pawn has a mood modifier for 'colony alignment': Based on the amount of pawns in your colony - and the personalities present - your pawns will feel comfortable and happy, or misunderstood and depressed.
  
  
• Each pawn has a mood modifier for 'ideo alignment': All pawns have an opinion of the ideology of their faction. Feeling well-aligned with the ideo will give them a mood boost; feeling misaligned will give them mood penalties.
  
  
• Fluid ideologies will dynamically change the way your pawns feel about your ideology: You collected enough points to add a new precept? Perhaps you should choose that precept more than half of your colony feel is really important, and see them grow along with your ideology?
  
  
• All pawns have feelings about each other: Personalities matter. Preferences matter. If pawns feel alike, they will have significantly favorable opinion modifiers. And if they don't, likewise significant opinion penalties.
  
  
• Personalities impact other thoughts and therefore mood: There are a few such 'special thoughts' already in place, with a whole bunch more planned. Find them out!
  
  
• Interactions between pawns are more common or rare depending on alignment and personality: Some interactions happen more often if pawns like each other. Some less often if they don't. Some interactions will never happen between pawns with certain alignments.
  
  
• New types of interactions: Pawns who really like each other can seek hugging sessions for comfort. More types of interactions are hopefully coming.
  
  
• Some vanilla thoughts have been altered: Since pawns now have more important things to have opinions on.

Don't add to or remove from ongoing save! Or, you CAN add it to ongoing saves, but it will be pretty wonky. If you really want to, use the DevTool for "regenerating" a personality for an existing pawn. They will get personalities, but many of the systems are made to be running from the start of a save and might be pretty weird.

I think it's a very bad idea to remove it from an ongoing save.

• Show ideology alignment with player ideology for pawns of other factions: If on, you can see the pawns 'future alignment' with your current ideology if the pawn was to join you. Default off.
  
  
• Sexuality: Show sexuality in the 'Personality window' instead of as 'trait tags' in the trait list on the Bio tab
  
  I haven't tested this at all myself, more than making sure it's actually turned off. If it will properly work with this or that mod I do not know at this point.
  
  
• Colony size: Some parts of the systems in the mod is tied a bit to colony size. In general, having it set on 'Small' while having a huge colony will give more and better mood boosts than intended. Recommended sizes:
  
  Small: up to ~ 12
  Medium: ~ 13-25
  Large: ~ 26+

I have already used traits from a bunch of sources (vanilla and mods), as part of the 'personality generation system'. I will add even more going forward.

Supported mods right now:

• Traits Plus (my own trait mod, absolutely recommended alongside this mod as it has lots of meaningful traits in terms of personality generation)
  
• Vanilla Traits Expanded
  
• RimTraits
  
• Fallout Traits
  
• Consolidated Traits
  
• Additional Traits
  
• Way Better Romance
  
• Bundle of Traits

If you want traits from specific mods to be used, please let me know!

I guess it should go without saying: but any other mod doing pretty much the same stuff. It might work in purely technical terms (as in not crashing etc), but in-game it would of course be non-sensical.

That goes for mods doing personality stuff, such as already mentioned 'Psychology' or '1-2-3 Personalities'. Mods adding more interactions should work I guess, but in detail that remains to be seen and tested going forward. Let me know if you find something strange!

Length limit of this description mean I will find a way to upload more details in some way later on.