ĭo NPC pawns with psycasts use them in battle? I have not had any opportunities to see this.It is a lot of clicking to maximize the amount of royal favor with a pile of gold. It is possible to overpay the minimum amount of gold necessary for an integer amount of royal favor. I thought he as supposed to go to the stars with the colonists. Stellarch still on the planet and giving quests after the player successfully completely the royalty ascent quest. Other vanilla quests have occurred as normal. Would love if we could pay faction leaders for an item stash for those like we can do with the AI core. Also it has been more difficult to acquire special items like infinite chemreactor, psychic emanator, vanometric powercell etc. I haven’t had one since I started a save with Royalty DLC. This would serve as another incentive to kill the empire, and target those pawns. Maybe psychic pawns that kill another psychic pawn get an entropy bonus. Maybe third backstory for these pawns, because this is a major shift in their adult life. Like being discovered as a cannibal, and this adds the cannibal trait to imperial pawn we already have encountered. These deserters can be former titleholders with physic amplifiers. Sometimes these colonists will be free, with no raid. To incentivize the player to kill the empire outside of memes, enemies of the empire get a higher frequency of imperial deserters quests. “Free” use of psycasts without the title Advertisements.Limited direct gains from being an enemy of the empire.Note you don’t lose already acquired titles if you become an enemy of the empire. It is senseless to turn on the empire late game when you can support the royal needs, and you give up the ability to use royal aid. Even the “free” usage of psycasts/blade link is almost pointless, since the player just lost best way to acquire them.

(See below.) Moreover, giving gold and prisoners to the empire for titles and then sacking the title is the best way to get psychic amplifiers. Specifically, the loss of royal aid and chance title progression is a huge loss compared to the gains from being an enemy of the empire. This is because the player gives up a lot to be an enemy of the empire, and has very little to gain.

It is always better to side with the empire.

Should be a source of psychic amplifiers.

Give empire settlements 3-5 Yeoman pawns.

1.1 mortar nerfs make a single mortar laughably bad.

Empire settlements get 5 mortars, manned by people.

(Like mech drop beacons but for the empire troops.) Not player obtainable/useable. * Give the Empire a variant of each: auto charge blaster turrets, minislug turrets, and empire drop beacons.

Empire should have a workshop led by an esquire, and room(s) that meet esquire requirements.

Empire settlements always have praetor and accompanying requirements.

Increase the size of generated empire settlements.

As the most advanced faction, they should have largest base, the most complicated base, and the best-defended base. The in game settlements don’t match the lore, and match the generation of pirate/outlander settlements. Psychic based faction should occasionally have psychic emanators. Item pool should have more pystrainers than outlander factions too. If you want it, you actually have to trade with outlander factions.

Imperial settlements never have pysfocus apparel either. Post 5 years they should have a greater chance for both archotech body parts and psychic emanator. Trader needs pysfocus apparel added to their inventory, and more pystrainers. Extreme late game they don’t have enough items you can’t produce yourself. They are good source of advanced components, glitterworld medicine, techprints, armor, bionics, and the occasional link weapon. They are very good early to mid game, but meh extreme late game. It could be like tiers, and reach a reward tier by sending enough people. These quests should be tweaked so the player can decide how many to send, and scale rewards appropriately. Sometimes they can ask for more pawns then what you have at settlement, even with a high faction population. Not sure if the colonist lend quests have been fixed to account for multiple player settlements. Throne room sharing was the best rebalance.

Quests/Royal favor and title/pyscast progression. Despite this, there are some flaws about how the player interacts with the Empire. (Including shift queue, psychite tea.) The rebalance changes, quest changes, and bug/quirk fixes have helped a lot. Royalty DLC was the most unexpected, but best Rimworld updates we have had.

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