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Rimtroid: Evolution (obsolete: 1.3 available!)
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SepphorisVT  [developer] 15 Mar, 2021 @ 9:31pm
Getting Started/ QA
Rimtroid: Evolution has a different way of operating than many other creature mods, mostly due to the design and features of metroids within the official canon. Therefore, many things may not be straightforward about them. Here is some very important information you'll want to keep in mind about metroids:

  • To get a tamed metroid, you'll want to find an egg, Larva, or Bantee, or hope that an Exotic Trader has one available. The older ones are simply too wild to be tamed, so starting small is necessary.

  • Metroids require a constant food supply. If their food bar gets too low (generally 30% or lower), they have a chance at throwing a fit, and berserking. Avoid this by researching and creating Metroid Pylons as soon as possible!

  • All metroids have unique abilities. This can range from the standard ability of draining the life force from living targets, all the way to generating fields of electricity and unleashing devastating beams fire. The best thing is, all these abilities can be controlled by the player!

  • Metroids "evolve" into further stages as they grow older, with the ranges being decades, if not centuries, apart. However, there are three ways metroids can rapidly gain age: the energy drain ability, attacking living targets, and an age injection called "Aetas". If you are trying to power-age a metroid, Aetas is the most efficient.

  • If a metroid evolves in to a certain stage that you like, you can use an item called a "Metroid Growth Suspender" to lock them into their current stage, even once they reach the needed age they would normally evolve at.

  • Metroids are nearly immune to fire, but extremely weak to the cold, and will quickly perish when the temperature is around 0. If you want good defenses against them, research the Metroid "Cryolauncher" or "Cryorifle" to put them down easily, and consider lowering the temperature of killboxes. Patches for other cryo weapons will follow!

  • All metroids are intended to have a role. The goal is to make each one special in their own right, instead of having one that is best at everything. Bantees, for example, are your best house pets, but incredibly weak. Gammas are intended for farming animals, and Zetas are your quick hunters that can easily chase down any target.

  • Metroids send raids against the player based on several factors. One of these is tech level. If you start off as a tribal colony, only the weakest raids will be sent against you. This can be circumvented if you have a mod that advances the player's tech level.
Last edited by SepphorisVT; 18 Apr, 2021 @ 1:52pm