I’ve always loved the ideas VE brings to the game, but the balance can get questionable. More than once I’ve started a playthrough to find the new VFE mod that just released is more problematic than its worth.
If you use the VE suite, are there any you avoid? I’m looking to start a new modded playthrough soon, but it’s been a while and I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts.
I dont really like Splits and Schism, find it too much of a hassle
I agree, it just feels frustrating and unfair when you get schisms while everyone has 100% certainty and high mood. I might reconsider it if it only happened with certainty/mood issues and just changed like 1 precept.
Same. I loved the idea of what VE does but playing the game was just a confusing mess for me. I stick to the same 8 mods I always use.
guess I’m the opposite. just checked RimPy and i’m current running a working playlist, not total installed but a playlist of 658. and there totally all quality of life mods i cant play without.
I never use Vanilla Mechanoids Expanded. The rate at which mech ships appear on the world map is nuts. Or the succulents sub-mod, I don’t see the point of it.
Mechanoids is fun for the factories and you can turn the ships off. I tried it with them enabled at first and it was such a pain I haven’t turned it back on since.
Agreed on the Mechs, but I love having tons of plants to put in pots. So I’m a fan of the succulents mod. :)
I can’t wrap my head around VE interface. The UI changes are… not really intuitive for me. Maybe it’s a matter of getting used to it, but I haven’t tried it since the first attempt
The trading module is (at least when I last used it) very unbalanced and it can alter a whole playthrough negatively. I recommend going through the recent discussions to see if the issues were fixed but I’ve been trying to avoid it after it fucked up the economy in one of my favorite playthroughs.
The “Oscar Obnoxious” and “Rimworld Rick” mods are joke mods, so I don’t use those ones. I also don’t use the ones that expand other VE mods with more specific content like the succulents module, the coffee and tea expansion module, or the sushi module. They just don’t add enough IMO.
