Brief Real Life Update & Next Rimworld Series Update

Good afternoon always patient and noble and so nice Patrons,

I just wanted to give a brief update on my real life struggles, and what I hope to be a really really great Rimworldd modpack coming out tomorrow.

Contents:

1 - What's going on with me
2 - What's going on with Rimworld
      2a - New Modpack Conceit
      2b - The Legendary Sarg Bjornson
      2c - My Spreadsheet of Evil Mods
3 - Other channel things
4 - A thank you

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1 - First things first, ME!

Or, more specifically, some vague non-descriptive and thoroughly unhelpful information about me, and what's going on.

So for the last month or so now, I've been dealing with a lot of solicitors, paperwork, big expensive legal fees, and other such things that will make my life a lot easier going forwards.

I can't go into detail as it's an ongoing legal case, and to keep things vague, it started positive, became very suddenly negative, then became positive but very risky again over the last week. You'll have to use your imagination, and it's not a straight forward single-thing scenario, and became pretty quickly multifaceted, but there will certainly be a very long drawn out tea review over on the Elise and Sam channel very soon!

So tragically between the meetings over the phone, across town, in the city, etc my time has been absolutely decimated, BUT that's not the reason why the next modpack is taking slightly longer than usual!

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2- Now I made an announcement recently that Generations II would be postponed indefinitely until all of the above stuff is sorted - I want to be able to dedicate all my time and effort to not only delivering a unique modpack, but also a well edited, highly polished series. More so than usual.

The new series isn't Generations II, but honestly, at this stage, I think it might be better.

Next series I'm calling Pharaoh Dynasties, very heavily Ancient Egypt inspired, with some pretty fun twists.

2a - The founding Pharaoh is a roboticist from a glitterworld planet who was exiled, so wants to use his smooth words and robot guards to convince some more primitive cultures that he is magical and should be worshipped and get a cool pyramid, afterall any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguisable from magic.

If the people realise he's not actually magical and just using technology they might rebel, or not respect him as much, so it needs to be the most low-tech high-tech colony possible. Are you following me so far? If not, think highly advanced robots using pickaxes in a quarry, instead of deep drills, or highly advanced robots running on hamster wheels to power the secret pharaoh labs of the pyramid, instead of big reactors.

There were many suggestions on Discord for other Ancient Egyptian themes to try and carry through the series. Building a great library of Alexandria and filling it with books from VE Books. Getting all of our natural resources from trading and the Empire mod, or the grand river itself. Using a cut down Children, School, and Learning along with Sarg's new Smart Ageing mod to create dynasties just like the Pharaoh's used to (except with less inbreeding).

And with some clever application of Yayo's Nature mod, by limiting it to Extreme Desert, Desert, and Oasis, on a 20 day cycle, we can experience the closest thing possible to the Nile flooding yearly, as it did in Ancient Egypt, and all the extra farmland and bounty that it'll bring with it!

It's not Generations II, but it's bloody close.

Then I've crammed the modpack with as many carefully selected theming mods and era-specific items and furniture as possible. Medieval overhaul, Vali's Charged Arsenal, VE: Desert Animals, Giddy-Up, VFE: Classical, Alpha Memes, and much more.

2b - And, on the subject of Alpha Memes, the incredible Sarg Bjornson of Vanilla Expanded, Alpha Memes, Alpha Animals, Genetic Rim, the Joris Experience & many of your favourite Rimworld mods, graciously and incredibly volunteered his time to add in a whole bunch more Kemetic themed weapons, items, and apparel to the Alpha Memes Kemetic style.

Without Sarg and his Alpha Memes mod, this series wouldn't only be a shallow, empty desert, it would be entirely impossible. So if you'd like to support someone with actual talent, one of the many modders who lay the foundations for my series to stand on, I'd highly recommend taking a look at the link above for Sarg's Patreon!

2c - I've been trying to be a bit more of the computer scientist my university lecturers sadly failed to create, and I've been focusing more on optimisation and remove of bad mods, unoptimised code, and unnecessary features. I've put together a pretty sizable spreadsheet with problem mods, reasons, and solutions (massive thanks to Scorpio here on Patreon as well who contributed greatly!)  to not only help create better, more stable modpacks, but also try and help some of you as well.

In addition, I'm going to start packing up the mod config files as a full on mod for each series, so that if you want to play along its as easy as important the modlist into RimPy, then hitting play. No more copying files over manually, or download big zips of configs. Everything be preconfigured and ready to go at the touch of a "subscribe to all" button - presuming Steam is working.

I've not been this excited for a modpack in a long while - the catgirls were a weird departure from what I've been doing recently, but this modpack has the potential to be one of the most tightly themed and carefully designed, and fantastically stable, packs we've had in ages.

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3 - As for the other series on the channel, the response to Terraria has been beyond what I expected. I figured maybe 10k views on a good day, but it's far beyond what I expected for a second series on a channel that has had exclusively Rimworld for over a year now, and I feel far less afraid of jumping into other games and series after Terraria has ended. A return to CK3 is absolutely on the card, and I have a few Rimworld-esc clones to take a look at as well.

Granted, I couldn't have picked a worse time to try and upend my real life, along with two edited series on the main channel, an extra series on the second channel, and a return to the Elise and Sam channel. Tragically scientists in their fancy coats haven't invented that 30-hour work day yet.

On the subject of CK2, unfortunately the mods I selected for the Game of Thrones playthrough were a bit poo-poo - the majority were buggy and the rest were out of date, so I'm pausing it for now and will be returning to it with a slightly different scenario!

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4 - And of course, as always, your support is tremendously appreciated. Not only would I not be here without it, but it gives me a unique position as a Youtube to take a bit of a gamble on the content and always bounce back from it, which is a privilege I plan on using much more frequently when all this real life garbage is out of the way.

I hope you've been enjoying seeing your names in game far more frequently with the incredible Patron faction mod, and hopefully this series will allow me to give you more of the colonist that we've been sorely missing from the last few series!

Tales of your misdeeds are told from Meowskar to Magic Marge,

Sam
Mr Samuel Streamer
Formerly Roll1D2 Games
Currently melting in a 40C room, I mean my god, how long can summer last for.