RimWorld

RimWorld

gloomy_dress
Value re-balance request
I really like this mod, and all other mod of your but it's seen like it got abandoned. So i like to give some idea for whoever like to continue with the mod and make it better.

The cost and the value of the dresses are way too high unless you play peaceful mode. Or you play with an op mod that you don't care about the pawn got overheated in the middle of spring or need protect armor at all.

It's worthless except the look, but you can't even put it on without other cheat mod.

Price and stats:

- Devil Strand base value: 5.50$

- Loli Dress = 350 DS + 520$ = 2445$ Market Value = 250$

- Mini Hat = 150DS + 20$ = 845$ Market Value = 100$

Same with other. The price cost is as high as the OP armor from royal dlc or the late game gears, but the market value is same as cheap normal cloth.

And so also the stats.

Average temperature in Temperate Forest is 5C to 30C, the easiest biome.
Average temperature the dress give you, 13C to 26C, that why the pawn got overheated in the middle of spring because it 27C outside.

Devil Strand have a massive buff for heat resistance and armor value, but that value all gone when go to the dress, even normal cloth have 3-5% heat resistance when the dress got 0%.

You make it high quality material but you have the quality worse than cotton cloth.

And worst because it an overall dress so you can't put anything on to fill the hole. Even for nudist you can put headgear on them to protect in some point, but putting the dress on it like you're almost naked even though it cost like a late game gear and wear it like an armor.

For armor bonus, it's give you a little more than cloth give you but that few % is like nothing compare to the cost.



Recommend change:

- Remove the silver cost or lower material require, and fix the market value base on actual material cost value. (But i like the idea that the market value is a little bit cheaper than the actual making cost, because, i was a cosplayer and i know the feel, just not too far price different or it's not worth to making them at all)

- Give option to choice between cloth, synthread, devilstand, hyperweave. The appearance won't change so don't require more sprite (still i hope for more) but the basic stat change base on the material used and so the offset bonus:

Cloth: Give no offset bonus at all or just a little.
Synthread: Give little less than Devil Strand
Devil Stand: The current is okay, may need some tweak, but the global work speed decrease a bit too high in the lolita dress. It even worse than Lazy + Slothful combine. And if it happen the pawn have those trait they not working at all, even they just stand at the work and took forever to finish.
Hyperweave: Since it late game material and hard to get, so it remove all the negative buff, and have a little more bonus may be.

- And since it an overall dress, it may considering that you putting and full set of cloth for stats and treat it at a late game armor like other Royal armor, it not OP at all because how hard it need to be made. Unless you planning on making underwear which i would love to see.