Suggestion - Allow synchronising certain events between players

[XHawk87]

The aim is to allow players to feel like they are part of the same world or region.

It would be useful to be able to choose from a list of events that should be synchronised. For example they could choose to share weather events between colonies but raids occur on an individual basis.

[Longwelwind]

Cool suggestion.
I'll need to check further in RW code to see if I can prevent normal events from happening and trigger them when I want to.

[Oufz0r]

Hi, is this event sync will be done ? I love the concept, could be so fun to share the weather! Or add a menu to share between who want it online. And why not a button to make a raid appear in friend colonie :)
(exchange money for this and need 10 days ingame or 10 irl minutes between each availability)

I try to know how to share my weather with my friend, because we don't want to use god mod menu to select the same weather simultaneously

[Longwelwind]

(Sorry for the late response)

I really want to do these kind of features, but unfortunately, it is really hard to influence these mechanics due to the lack of real modding API for Rimworld.

AFAIK, to circumvent the script of the game that controls weather/raids/events, I'd need to deeply modify it and possibly break other mods that changes these mechanics.

[Oufz0r]

I imagine that Rim is not easy to mod in multi-users things. Don't worry for the delay ^^
I hope you will find something to improve Phi in this way a day :) thanks a lot for your work, we have fun with friends in sharing stuffs and colons :D
We like to play with a Lord, request tax (money, food, medical, etc..) sometime he want colons as slaves.. Phi mod allow us to play Roleplay so much :D

[XHawk87]

Perhaps a custom Phi storyteller would be the best way to approach this? Almost all events are triggered by the storyteller after all, instead of randomly generating them, the server determines what events are to take place and when and sends them to the client storytellers. This should have minimal impact on other mods and would give player's the choice of whether to use this event synchronising feature.