Colonists are now smart about when to meditate. It helps both psyfocus gain and recreation.
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Background
In Rimworld a colonist with psylink will attempt to meditate when the psyfocus is less than the target value.
On the other hand, the colonist does not favor meditation against other solitary joy activity, even if they do need more psyfocus.
This resulted in a bad deadlock: the colonist keeps meditating when they are bored about meditation, and further push tolerance of solitary joy up.
When the tolerance is high, the meditation activity gains very little recreation needs, effectively killed a type of recreation.
I found it very annoying to see my colonist 90%+ bored at solitary activity yet still need to meditate.
This Mod Adds
Smart meditation behaviors.
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[*] Colonist with psylink now are more likely to do meditation over other solitary joy activities (the chance factor can be configured).
[*] Colonist, should they become bored at solitary, will not rush to meditation. They will instead wait a little longer until the tolerance of solitary dropped before meditate again.
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F.A.Q
[b][u]Does this mod affect performance?[/u][/b]
No
[b][u]Is this mod safe to add/remove mid save?[/u][/b]
Yes
[b][u]But I want my colonist to keep psyfocus level high?[/u][/b]
You can still do that, in a number of ways:
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[*] Set the target focus level slightly higher
[*] Set the target focus level at max (and this mod will no longer try to stop meditation in any cases).
[*] Set meditation schedule. This mod does not stop meditation if it's scheduled.
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Updates
[b]v0.3.1[/b] Fixed an edge bug: when a child has a psylink, this mod would throw exception due to no joy needs.
[b]v0.3.0[/b] Now supports 1.5.
[b]v0.2.1[/b] Now uses the average of [i]Current Tolerance[/i] and [i]Potential Tolerance Gain[/i] for the purpose of "Treat tolerance as focus". This now allows your high focus target pawn to meditate more when their recreation needs are already satisfied.
[b]v0.3.0[/b] Now supports 1.6.
[b]v0.2.0[/b] Now supports 1.4.
[b]v0.1.1[/b] Adjusted Mod Settings UI. Slightly changed wording in English to make it less confusing.
Credits & Links
Many thanks to the members of the #mod-development channel on the Rimworld Discord server!
If you enjoy this mod, please check out [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/puremj/myworkshopfiles/]my other Rimworld mods on Steam Workshop![/url]
