I was watching my friend's stream with this MOD installed and I thought, 'Oh, that looks bright and nice.' This might be exactly what my colony needs, since it's completely covered in nutrient paste dispenser pipes right now.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm one of those "plays rimworld like it's animal crossing" types, and I have spent so much time trying to tweak pawns I designed for roleplay reasons to force them into getting along at some base level. I don't need everyone to love each other automatically, but when I create a couple who have run away together and they immediately hate each other, or something like twins who constantly fight to the near death.

Thankyou!

I'm programming today, which is great. I've a solid looking 1.6 native build, removed a few quirks so that Interactions are now all much easier to compare for weighting.

I still don't have Odyssey. I suppose I'll have to give up ice cream for the month or something, but, I've still half a tub of chocolate, and a full one of mint chocolate chip. This, is survivable.

Maybe this will make two of my colonists stop beefing at least once a week LMAO. or that one random Hospitality guest that picks fights constantly. she's great for goodwill bc she gets into fights and gets tended, but it's like peter and the chicken she's my most common guest

@SPOOSER I'm thrilled when I hear this mod has made the game closer to what we might expect, or, hope for anyway - with a group of people struggling to survive together.

@Mc_Dyno in principle, I should have caught most cases where Inhumanized or Psychopath should be the dominating factor. A Psychopath/Inhumanized pawn may still be the target of an interaction, but should receive no benefit from it except possibly the teaching interactions, or, hearing a story?

That's how it should be working, if I did my last build correctly.

I'll be buying Odyssey soon I hope - I don't yet have it so can't playtest against. I won't put a date on it yet because I'm highly unpredictable at present, but, I'll aim for a point release in the next week if all goes well.

Thanks for words of encouragement, both here and on discord from various folks. It sustains us.

Also my condolences, you seem to be having it really rough right now. I am so sorry you have to go through that.

So question? Does this change how abrasive/psychopathic/inhumanized pawns act?

It would be nice if they just kept the vanilla jerk behavior, for inhumanized pawns it should disable social and all the other kind actions normal pawns would do.

I adore this mod, but it has issues with Big & Small Simply Robots - my nonsapient giant robot throws errors whenever other colonists try to be friendly with it.

My pawns are all aquaintances. They live in a ship in close quarters, all work together, very rarely have mental breaks, and all believe in the same ideology.


Look, I get that some of my pawns are going to not get along, not interact with one another, etc. But I refuse to believe only three of my pawns are friends with each other.

The base game only thinks about pawns being dicks to each other or wanting to have sex with each other. I was like, "why don't my pawns try being nice to each other? Ever???" This mod was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!

Hello lovely community! 1.5-1.6 transitional is presently on Steam with minutes to spare before my self imposed deadline of midnight tonight.

There could be regressions - but it looked correct, now that I understand better one of my paid for years ago software tools.

If you have an Apple Silicon Mac, and encounter errors relating to Harmony, you'll need to enable Rosetta in the GetInfo tab.

RW is now native for M1+ architecture but last I checked, Harmony isn't usable if RW doesn't run as an x64 program with Rosetta. This affects lots of mods.

If it generates an error on Positive Connections, you can alternatively just ignore that one error on load pertaining to Harmony, and complain to me to just remove the reference as PC doesn't require Harmony in reality, at present.

Thanks for patience!

thank you for this!! i've been trying to find a mod that makes pawns less rude to each other, and this is definitely something that is missing from other social interaction mods!

Alright - I'm fixing up the edges of a 1.5-1.6 holdover release. I think this will only fix a few text issues and one case where interactions were prevented from firing due to my last tuning round.

Not so easy to remain focused due to a distracting world!

PSA: games are great stress-diverters, and a way to allow the creative part of your mind to do its thing while you try to fix problems that you can understand with your eyes and the tools available.

I'll likely have the update ready before Tuesday if I can complete the tests for it.

Thanks for everyone's patience, and kindness.

stay frosty

its really seldom you see wholesome mods for this game.

Thats rough, I feel your pain insurance companies are basically a scam. Gotta fight tooth and nail to get what owed to you. Hope you fleece them.

Hi everyone - health and financial problems got me for a couple of months there.

A bit over a year ago, my apartment (and laboratory) burned down due to a fire in an adjoining building where we (me and the artist who does most of my steam mod art) lost everything except our personal computers and my violin. Insurance tries hard to not pay us, all of my papers were lost complicating my immigration status and so on.

It's been very stressful!

This week though, I got my environment set back up on my new desktop finally so that I might be able to work normally.

I'll first take care of outstanding bugs and issues (there are 3 I knew about and one new).

I've got a few suggestions if you wanna hear them: Hugs (romantic and platonic), and kissing and handholding for romantic relationships.

And maybe a special interaction where two pawns who are good friends bury the hatchet on a specific memory like "insulted" to nullify the negative opinion offset/ delete the memory.

Would be pretty cool and fitting, I think.

Really cool mod, appreciate the work put into it. Was the fix mentioned in february implemented?

@MeatBeatMarv Also, thanks for the Hugslib output - it's great to know what mods people are using when researching a problem!

Apologies to anyone who has been embittered by problems due to the DIL_PositiveConnections.PositiveConnectionsModSettings problem. I had some "surprise" health stuff to take care of the last couple of months and it's hugely slowed down my work.

I do have a fix for this and some tuning (frequency and impact of interactions) almost ready to put up but it requires further testing.

@MeatBeatMarv

Could you give me an example of a ritual where this has happened? I'm guessing it's a ritual from a mod.

Rituals should on their part suppress social interactions if they are problematic when pawns are assigned their Jobs for the ritual. This is something which is under the control of the current Lord of the pawn.

Positive Connections itself doesn't know if a pawn is engaging in a ritual, but will definitely respect it if the ritual job suppresses social interactions as it uses the same rules for spawning interactions as vanilla.

I don't see any obvious reason why any interaction would cause leaving a ritual. Even social fights do not do so if no one is injured.

Having said that though, I'm happy to look at any rituals where you've seen this behavior - there might be something we can do to do adapt, if this is what's happening.

Seems like whenever interactions from this mod trigger during a ritual, the pawns involved leave the ritual early, affecting the quality.

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/c0f94257955fa0a8e93bac16108341c4

Update on my prev comment: If you unsub and resub to the mod, the error seems to be gone

Getting the same error as samdeane and greenshiperhat
Could not find class DIL_PositiveConnections.PositiveConnectionsModSettings while resolving node ModSettings. Trying to use PositiveConnectionsNmSpc.PositiveConnectionsModSettings instead. Full node: <ModSettings Class="DIL_PositiveConnections.PositiveConnectionsModSettings" />

@CEM I'm getting the same error as @greenshiperhat, hasn't gone away despite re-saving. Doesn't seem to be causing any obvious issues though.

@Depraved Arachnophile We're working on things that don't quite correspond with that title, but, include Interactions that do. :)

Without giving away too much detail, Positive Connections is part of an ecosystem, so to speak, of modular components intended to shape pawn development. If you can read source code, please see my github (cemacmillan) for a partial reveal.

But, I'm glad there will be some interest when we finish the unnamed mod.

@n_hanna Adding mid-game shouldn't cause any problems.

Safe-removal ( ~0 errors ) is also possible. I'll try to detail that in the FAQ.

@greensniperhat That's due to the mod having updated after your save. It should go away if you save your game, and reload once.

I should have caught this error (the game will do the right thing anyway). Thanks for reporting it!

@The Bard of Hearts I'll take a look at the current setup before the next release. It's quite possible some moodlets are out of balance. We tune them every time we tune probability, which is partly scripted process. It's definitely not perfect.

As for realism? I dunno. Who knows what pawns get up to after finishing their chat about stone cutting? :p

can you add this mid game?

Now all we need is Negative Connections

Found this error message in my player.log:
Could not find class DIL_PositiveConnections.PositiveConnectionsModSettings while resolving node ModSettings. Trying to use PositiveConnectionsNmSpc.PositiveConnectionsModSettings instead. Full node: <ModSettings Class="DIL_PositiveConnections.PositiveConnectionsModSettings" />

Is this the mod that is giving the "Shared Passion +9" moodlet? If so, I gotta say, that seems pretty intense. having sex is +8. This means someone would rather cut stones with someone else while they work at a smithy instead of doing the nasty with their mate. Just seems a little unbalanced. I like the idea, but maybe +3 would be a better balance?

Ah, so it updated. I was wondering why the positive connections messages where fancier and colorful now lol

Updated!

- Somewhat reduced messages and, now they vary!
- Interactions now pay attention to a pawn's Traits and Skill Levels.
- Fleshed out Storytelling.
- French translation.

There is some weirdness with Better Pawn Control, text labels at the bottom of the BPC page will have funny characters. We're working on a way to patch this.

This was a lot of work, and my personal life has crazy ups and downs so it took a while.

We'll do a few small (unannounced) updates to patch for BPC and improve Storytelling as time permits.

Enjoy!

@nikita150u Hmm. By default the mod displays messages, in the upper left-hand corner.

Some people like this, and others do not. "Hardcore Mode: Disable all messages from this mod (but enable all other effects)" does exactly what it says: it disables messages.

If you've seen some other behavior, please mention it the bugs discussion. I'm wrapping up the next release now, so if there's some unexpected behavior I would like to hear about it.

Tf you mean "hardcore"??? Went spamming in notifications instead of social tab IS harcore (and a bit annoying)

@kyrambox Hi! Neither of these switches are being used in the current version. The first is related to some interaction type we've put on hold, the other was meant to relate to interactions involving other faction members

I expect to repurpose both switches in the future, thus they've been left there.

What "Enable rare connections" and "Disable certain interactions" in mod settings does?

The most recent Positive Connections update has been released.

We've added storytelling in a slightly different matter than expected.

I've made a new release, implementing storytelling in a more Positive Connections oriented style, using a lightweight Interaction, instead of a Gathering.

Some other interesting features are in the pipeline or being tested as I write.

Thanks for reading and being here.

Alright, finally I think I've got a better fitting way. I'll release tonight (for me). This will fit better with how Positive Connections works, than my previous idea, while still getting us what we want.

I'll separate some more complex ideas, into a separate different mod but, we'll still get the new things some have mentioned, in Positive Connections (and mostly, tonight).

If anyone has a bug, or little fix in mind please mention it in the forum and deal with it tonight if possible.

Thanks for your reading!

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the help.

@gRaveyard Sorry for the mod-identifying troubles. The point of Positive Connections, is to balance the 8/9 negative tendency of vanilla RimWorld social interactions. It has message/notification reducing mod options:

* HardCore Mode doesn't generate notifications or messages.
* Interaction frequency and "stop all interactions", the latter leaving the mod enabled while stopping the interactions themselves.

I know you weren't asking for a solution to too many messages from the mod, but rather mod identification.

I see these options aren't mentioned in the FAQ and I will bold tag in "**Social Interactions**" prominently to the description. The title was chosen to avoid the word _interactions_ for pragmatic reasons and ease of search from other languages.

If though, there's anything else I can do to help you identify this or the stack of mods I am about to release, you (or anyone) can reach me at https://discord.gg/VtshGZmH .

ah, looks like steam's comment section is incapable of using code formatting. Please ignore those tags. :D

Tiny request, @CEM
Could you add [code](Social Interactions)[/code] to the title? I have a modlist of over five hundred mods, and I was looking for which mod was causing the ping spam in the messages. For the life of me, I was unable to figure out which one. Neither "positive" nor "connections" are terms I'd search for while I'm trying to sort out social interactions.^^

Thanks. Always good to learn :)

@Linnun The SW corner thing was caused by invalid coordinates, due to a misassumption Gatherings work like every other multi-pawn interaction. Not so.

Planning to finish up with this problem tonight.

Out of curiosity, I did read the code of your storytelling lordjob before this update and I couldn't find out what was causing pawns to run to the SW corner of the map. What was the issue?

A point fix. I think I activated the Letter alert by mistaken. I'll correct this shortly, once Steam authorized the previous update.

But goofy behaviors around Storytelling should be fixed. The desired behavior, of the pawns clustering like I want them to, isn't yet achieved, but should be RSN.