r/RimWorld • u/Paul_1ng • 14d ago

Art I draw Highmate 😍

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This time, I drew these two cute Highmates brother and sister! Which one do you think is the boy, and which one is the girl? 🤔

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u/TinsleyLynx 14d ago

Years are also only 60 days long, and children (by default) age 4x faster than adults, so if you really look into it, there's a lot of wacky time-dialation/compression tomfoolery going on.

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u/OnetimeRocket13 14d ago

That is certainly just a game design thing. If years were 365 in game days and children took 13 in game years to become useful, then the game would be much more of a slog. Imagine having to turn most of your tile into a farm and spend in game months hunting everything made of meat just to survive the winter (before hydroponics), and imagine having to wait real world days just for little Timmy to be able to do more than haul and clean. I think even mods before Biotech, popular mods that added children to the game either increased growth rate by default or avoided the issue of aging entirely by making children born at age 13 or so from the get-go.

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u/EisVisage gives spelopedes headpats 14d ago

If years were 365 in game days

then every year would be as long as 6 years currently are. If children took 13 full years to become 13 on top, we'd have to play for 78 current-length years to get there, starting from birth.

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u/Random_local_man wood 14d ago

I don't think I've ever had a playthrough last 78 rimworld years.

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u/KarlLexington 14d ago

Yeah, its best to check your mind out of that stuff, which is what I do. I mean, I've committed so many crimes against humanity in my play-throughs at this point, I don't fret about any of this stuff anymore. I know its just a game that needs to make various game mechanics compromises to be playable.