The hybrid storyteller looks like what I've been after for years now - time to see if it works.

Could this still work in 1.5?

Please update this its an essential mod for me

this is one of my fav mods its a nice mix of both of them

But who knows, its possible.

I don't think its the gn crash as ive never actually had a crash on raid landing before, the framerate tanked when they spawned around 45-60 raiders in pods. It was the first major raid so I don't think it was memory leak related either. There was no log either, just a full ctd.

@NotoriousNix

Actuallly, the relevant bit of code for what you describe is here:

<li Class="StorytellerCompProperties_OnOffCycle">
<category>ThreatBig</category>
<minDaysPassed>12.0</minDaysPassed>
<onDays>0.12</onDays>
<offDays>14.85</offDays>
<minSpacingDays>0.005</minSpacingDays>

"Minspacingdays" could be bumped up for sure, as well as "onDays" I will do this in the next update.

@empressgray I moved it to a patch for better compatibility. It looks like:

<points>
<li>0, 8.0</li>
<li>6, 2.0</li>
<li>9, 1.0</li>
<li>13, 0.35</li>
<li>17, 0.0</li>
<li>20,-1.0</li>
</points>

Basically, the first number is your colony's current population, and the 2nd number is the population "factor" that determines how many population boosting events you get. As an example, you can change it to:

<li>0, 8.0</li>
<li>6, 2.0</li>
<li>18, 1.0</li>
<li>30, 0.35</li>
<li>40, 0.0</li>
<li>50,-1.0</li>

@NotoriousNix Are you getting the "gc" crash? Yeah, the causes of that are unknown other than "too many mods," and it may start happening with single raids as your colony progresses.

This just happened with two raids at the same time, so they all tried to land and open pods at once. For performances sake it may be a good idea to see if you can offset raids so they cant trigger two at exactly the same time staggering them slightly. A 30-50 second delay would work, or make it that they can only drop pod in and others have to take a different method, ie walk in.

So even with a decent computer im getting crashes when the clustered storyteller does pod drop raids. something about that many pods coming down at once and trying to open just nukes the game.

I want to change the population limit to around 50 how would i do that? I dont see an option in the storyteller def's in the file

Now that biotech is out. I cant unsee the image in my head of cassandra and randi having a clusterphuck child, a very chaotic lawful abomination. to give you an idea of that image, imagine a baby born with a bionic eye and a smiley tattoo.

So clustered sends fewer raids overall, correct?

@T1isbae

- So the vanilla game sends more prisoners, refugees, downed people from pods and such when your colony population is low, to try and "fill up" the colony. You'll just get a few more of those events (especially very early in the game), but the buff is mild, and you don't have to accept them!

- For the Hybrid storyteller, that's correct!

- For Clustered, technically its "Cassandra but she only sends infrequent double raids instead of frequent regular raids + heavily nerfed Randy"

- Clustered Hybrid raids often end up fighting each other, so that makes it "easier." On the other hand, sometimes they don't, which makes those infrequenty situations harder.

If I want to keep my population on the low side, is that going to cause issues with the mod?

Also, would you sum up hybrid as pheobe+nerfed frequency randy and clustered as cassandra+some double raids+nerfed frequency randy?

From my perspective, as a newer player, it looks like hybrid is just an easier version of clustered hybrid, right?

@Legimimi

Right, done.

I would recomment that you inherit from the base vanilla storyteller so that modded quests and so on can be more compatile with this mod

Also, this may need a revisit for Biology if it adds new quests like Royalty did.

Updated to 1.4, feedback welcome.

@tw_boring Didn't see this till now, but mechanically RF is like Cassandra with much shorter intervals. The pause between events is shorter, but there is still a pause between them.


The Hybrid Storytellers are a bit different because Randy is running in the background, hence the event density will vary more depending on the Randy RNG.

(Also I intend to update this when I start testing other mods in 1.4).

What is the difference between Hybrid Storytellers and Rainbeau Flambe ? What is more aggressive ?

@Milenier yeah, sometimes raids are brutal because the game sends 2 normal raids at once. I generally play with a lower raid difficulty than the vanilla storytellers with it.

so currently, the game with the hybrid storytellers feels like randy random had baby with cassandra, which was bullied, tortured and left alone on sea ice with only hay to eat for 3 years. (or nuclear gandhi if you wish)

i got constant mechanoid raids of size that resembles fun to loose cassandra (but on steroids). the mechanoids attack was the size of 4 centipedes, 2 thermites, 15 lancers and 17 scythers. i did tried to replicate that raid with "fun to loose cassandra" and i had to use 7500 points to get as close to that raid that i was sent around 3 times within one in game week "adventure story" cassandra and randy hybrid. also some quests were absolutely brutal aswel (sometimes multiple raids of the same size [same units] spawned to "asking for help - join you" quest.

i mean. i cannot say it wasn't challenging and somewhat fun. but you will not last too long.

@viriais I've gotten some pretty bad RNG from the clustered hybrid, but nothing quite like that.

I will push a small change to try and mitigate it.

Idk if it's a deal of this mod or it's an incompatibility with another one, but as of 1.3 playing with the Hybrid one, the storyteller sometimes enters a loop where he's sending me exactly one raid a day. Like literally one raid every 24 ingame hours, can even send 4-5 in a row (couldn't test more cause usually it's the 4th or 5th that totally wipes out my colony and my willing to keep playing). Any feedback on that?

-Cut back the Clustered Hybrid's trade caravan spam a bit

Thank you very much!

@TurtleShroom

Updated to 1.3. Custom storytellers are now in line with the 1.3 storytellers but otherwise unchanged, DDS textures were added.

I will probably make some adjustments as I play, once I get a stable mod loadout.

@TurtleShroom Sorry, I was hibernating :P. I will update this in a bit.

I have never gone back to any other Storyteller since I got your Mod. I hope that you will please consider updating it.

This is one of my favorite Mods. It actually makes Events occur and gives me more of a challenge. Do you plan on updating it for V1.3 ?

too much to read. i'll just upvote and subscribe.

Made a small tweak to the population factor

I kinda like it not gonna lie

"Yo Randy you mind stepping back and giving me a little personal space?"