Moderation guide

This is a guide/checklist for submission verifiers.

Verification:
— The mods dialog is shown. Only Core and Royalty are permitted to be listed (and Ideology, IF the category allows it — currently there is no category where Ideology is permitted).
— The options dialog is shown, and development mode is unchecked.
— The game audio is heard, music is uninterrupted, sound effects generated from clicks and such are perfectly in sync with screen actions. (A consistent A/V desync of 1–3 frames throughout the run is ok.)
— Incorrect information in the submission is NOT grounds for rejection. Moderator must verify and correct data if necessary.
— Category selection matches submission data. Check the main category, check escape type, check scenario, check difficulty.
— Scenario selection matches submission data. Select 100% peaceful if difficulty is set as peaceful, merciless if merciless difficulty is set, compromise otherwise. Select story teller. Custom scenarios are prohibited. If the submission is Regular but scenario is naked brutality, choose Naked for the subcategory. If the scenario is naked but the biome is sea ice/ice sheet/extreme desert and the run honors the temperature constraints, choose/keep the biome-based subcategory instead.
— If game version is shown on the main screen, enter/correct it in the submission (also recommended to write exact game version (incl. minor number) in moderation comments)
­— World location selection: If subcategory is Sea ice, Ice sheet or Extreme desert, verify the temperature ranges (minimum, maximum from subcategory rules), and for biome (ONLY sea ice in Sea ice, ONLY ice sheet in Ice sheet; Extreme desert and Regular can have any biome)
— Character randomization: pay attention to possible video splices, verify audio sync. If player camera and voice is present, verification is easier.
— During run: still pay attention to possible video splicing. Make sure that all actions make sense, the player doesn’t suddenly possess items they never acquired, etc.
— Music: verify correct pitch & tempo (by ear, or by measuring time between a certain elements in music, compare with reliable source). Do same for sfx if possible.
— Verify that the goal is achieved (someone thinks a room is wondrous, at least 99 beer is selected, …)
— Verify that no prohibited actions happen (such as buying hops in a beer% run)
— In Sea ice/Ice sheet/Extreme desert submission, if the outside temperature *at any moment* falls/rises beyond the required threshold, the run becomes Regular or Naked instead (NOT grounds for rejection!). This restriction applies *only to the primary colony.* On tiles where the player is only caravaning (such as looting ancient dangers) and has not built anything significant (a mortar / fortifications / temporary sleeping spot for clearing an enemy base is not significant), this restriction does not apply.
— Verify that *after* the goal is achieved, everything that the rules require to be proven/shown is fulfilled (for example, end credits automatic scrolling start, panning over ancient danger showing every nook and surroundings, showing the label of the hat).
— If the player used a run timer, verify that the timer runs at same rate as video does. Popular timers are more trustworthy than custom ones. This can be used to help verifying against splices or changing of video speed, but should NOT be the only means.
— In uncertain cases, ask help on #mod-chat on Discord.

Language:
— Use a dictionary if necessary. It is recommended that players using non-English versions put translations of all relevant terms in the submission text.

Timing:
— As a general rule, ignore player’s run timer.
— If watching on YouTube, select highest quality level. When the scenario explanation dialog disappears, rewind to the 1 or 2 seconds before it does, pause video, use "," and "." (comma, period) to frame advance backwards and forwards. Advance to the moment when next full second begins, and keep advancing. Count frames. The frame where the dialog disappears, write count down. For example, if you start counting from exactly when 4:09 becomes 4:10 and the dialog is still visible, and the dialog disappears 13 presses after that, run starts at 4:10 + 13/30 seconds (if video is 30fps), 13/60 seconds (if video is 60fps). Check the framerate.
— Do similarly with the time end condition (doublecheck category rules).
— Subtract the two times. For example, if you have 1:30:20+21/60 for end time and 4:10+13/60 for start time, first convert these times to seconds (1×3600 + 30×60 + 20 + 21/60) and (4×60 + 10 + 13/60) and substract them. In this case, result is 5170.1333333. Subtract hours (divide 5170 by 3600, you get 1, so subtract 1×3600): 1 hour + 1570.1333 seconds. Subtract minutes (divide 1570 by 60, you get 26, so subtract 26×60) ⇒ 1 hour + 26 minutes + 10.13333. That is the run time. Round to milliseconds: 1:26:10.133.
— Enter the corrected timing in the submission.
— Another good alternative is to use a tool such as youtube-dl/yt-dlp to download the video, and do the same frame-by-frame checking in your favorite media player, if it possesses that function.
— EXCEPTION: If the video is low fps (30 or lower) or has lots of lag, and the player has a *trustworthy* run timer and the player’s timer is running the the *entire* time of the timed section of the run, you can use the readings from the player’s timer to improve accuracy. For example, if at 4:10+7/30 when the run starts player’s timer says 0.024, and at 1:30:20+11/30 when the run ends player’s timer says 1:26:10.151, you can subtract these two and judge the time as 1:26:10.127. As a general rule though, players’ own timers are to be ignored.

Rejected submissions:
— If the rejection reason was trivial, the submission does not need to be edited. Explain clearly in the rejection message why the run was rejected, for example which rule it violated.
— If the rejection reason was complex, such as splicing detected, adding relevant information in the submission text as moderator comments may be a good idea (see below). To do this, first edit the submission but UNCHECK the box “automatically verify the run”. Save, and then reject it.

Accepted submissions:
— Correct the mis-entered fields in the submission.
— If you changed something, or have anything to say about the run, add a comment to the end of the comment field in the submission. Mark your comment *distinctly* so that it is clear that your text is not part of the player’s comments. Use markup. Bisqwit recommends the following: empty line, dash line (------), *bolded* “Moderator notes:” and then the notes. You can also use the subheading markup, maybe.
— Use clear and unambiguous language (do not abbreviate moderator as mod, as mod also means a game modification). Remember that the player or any random person who reads your text might not be a native English speaker.
— In the moderator notes, put all information that you manually checked in case the run needs to be rejudged later (possibly years later, for example if category rules change or if we add more input fields), especially if said information was through non-negligible effort.
— Announce WRs and notable runs (and sometimes even less notable runs on quieter times) on Discord, use previous announcements as pattern.

Overturned decisions:
— Accepted submissions can be rejected (for example, if cheating is detected, or the run is duplicate and there is no good reason to keep the duplicate). A missing video is not grounds for retroactive rejection unless the run is within top-three.
— Rejected submissions can be accepted if the rejection reason was invalid (for example, run uses ice sheet instead of sea ice, but ice sheet is allowed as an exception for the category) or if the run targeted a category that didn’t exist but was later created.
— Overturning is done only with serious caution and by moderators only.
— If the category rules change later in such a manner that existing runs would have to be rejected, as a general principle the category is turned into a misc old category and a new category is created instead. We don’t like to delete runs.
— If a category is about to be deleted, but there exist rejected/pending submissions for that category, the category is turned into a misc old category instead. Otherwise, the rejected/pending submissions would be deleted.

Multiplying your wealth without acquiring new resources

**Idea:** Multiply existing silver by constructing stuff from silver and selling them.

The category factors (trade price multipliers) for various items are as follows:
— Sculptures: 1.1
— Clothing, armors, security items, recreation items, furniture: 0.7
— Weapons (melee, ranged, remote controls): 0.2
— Anything else, such as food, organs, artifacts, stone blocks: 1.0

Pretty much anything except sculptures is therefore out of window.

Sculpture stats:
— Small sculpture: Takes 500 silver, market value 564.80 silver (ratio: 1.1296)
— Large sculpture: Takes 1000 silver, market value 1108.00 silver (ratio: 1.108)
— Grand sculpture: Takes 2200 silver, market value 2434.00 silver (ratio: 1.10636)
Interesting, the smaller sculptures have a better ratio.

Quality factors:
— Awful: 0.5
— Poor: 0.75
— Normal: 1.0
— Good: 1.25
— Excellent: 1.5
— Masterwork: 2.5
— Legendary: 5.0

Social skill factors (assuming 100% health):
— 0: 1.0
— 1: 1.015
— 2: 1.03
— 3: 1.045
— 4: 1.06
— 5: 1.075
— 6: 1.09
— 7: 1.1
— 8: 1.12
— 9: 1.13
— 10: 1.15
— 11: 1.16
— 12: 1.18
— 13: 1.20
— 14: 1.21
— 15: 1.22
— 16: 1.24
— 17: 1.26
— 18: 1.27
— 19: 1.28
— 20: 1.3

Location factors:
— Orbital: 1.0
— Visiting caravan: 1.0
— Faction base: 1.02

Trade factor = 0.6.

The selling price is: Market value × category-factor × quality-factor × trade-factor × social-multiplier × location-factor.
The buying price is: Market value × quality-factor × (2−trade-factor) × (2−social-multiplier) × (2−location-factor). (The category factor is not used when buying.)
For some items & traders, there may be an additional factor that manifests as a green or red price. I’m not sure how it works, but I have never seen it on anything other than consumable items like food, components and medicine.

**Example:** Good small silver sculpture: Cost to make: $500; Effective market value: $564.80 × 1.1 (sculpture) × 1.25 (good) = $776.60. Use level 15 social person to sell to an orbital trader: $564.80 × 1.1 × 1.25 × 0.6 (sell) × 1.22 (social) × 1.0 (orbital) = $568.47. This is rounded to $570.

Or, as a table: Sell to a visiting caravan, prices for all levels 0—9:
— Awful: 185 188 190 193 196 199 201 204 207 210
— Poor: 281 285 289 293 297 302 306 310 314 318
— Normal: 373 378 384 390 395 401 406 412 418 423
— Good: 465 472 479 486 493 500 507 514 521 528
— Excellent: 558 566 574 583 591 600 608 616 625 633
— Masterwork: 931 945 959 972 986 1000 1014 1028 1042 1056
— Legendary:  1865 1892 1920 1948 1976 2004 2032 2060 2088 2116
Sell to a visiting caravan, prices for all levels 10—20:
— Awful:  213 215 218 221 224 226 229 232 235 237 240
— Poor:  323 327 331 335 339 344 348 352 356 360 365
— Normal:  429 434 440 446 451 457 462 468 474 479 485
— Good:  535 542 549 556 563 570 577 584 591 598 605
— Excellent: 641 650 658 666 675 683 692 700 708 717 725
— Masterwork:  1070 1084 1098 1112 1126 1140 1154 1168 1182 1196 1210
— Legendary:   2144 2172 2200 2228 2256 2284 2312 2340 2368 2396 2424

Orbital traders give the same price as caravans visiting your colony. Wearing a cowboy hat does *not* affect the price.

This means that with a colony full of level 20 artists, who always produces at least “good” sculptures, and with a single level ≥6 negotiator, you can sustainably multiply your wealth without any external resources, i.e. without mining, without power generators, without raids, without growing. (Assuming you take care of your basic needs like mood, food, temperature, health, security.)

Crafting anything worse than “good” quality produces loss. For “good” quality, you need at least ≥ 5 in social to break even for small silver sculptures. For better qualities, any level of social will do, but obviously higher levels give better profit. A level 20 social gives you 30% more money than a level 0 social does, assuming 100% hearing and 100% talking.

Minimal social-factor to break even is given as: (ratio × category-factor × quality-factor × trade-factor × location-factor).
This gives for small sculptures (ratio: 1.1296):
— Awful,poor,normal:  Nothing
— Good: 1.073(level 5) for orbital/caravan, 1.052(level 4) for faction
— Excellent,masterwork,legendary: Anything
For large sculptures (ratio 1.108):
— Awful,poor,normal:  Nothing
— Good: 1.094(level 7) for orbital/caravan, 1.0725(level 5) for faction
— Excellent,masterwork,legendary: Anything
For grand sculptures (ratio 1.10636):
— Awful,poor,normal:  Nothing
— Good: 1.0956(level 7) for orbital/caravan, 1.0741(level 5) for faction
— Excellent,masterwork,legendary: Anything

Your level 20 negotiator, when trading at your colony, gives you about 85% of the market value for sculptures (0.6×1.1×1.3). For clothing items and furniture, they get about 55% of the market value (0.6×0.7×1.3). For weapons (both melee and ranged), they get about 15% of the market value (0.6×0.2×1.3). For any other items, they get about 78% of the market value (0.6×1.0×1.3).

Visiting a faction base gives you a small 2.0% boost to the sell price (e.g. sculptures go at 0.6×1.1×1.3×1.02 = 87.5% of their market value, if you use a 20-social person).

Ship ingredients

To build the minimum viable ship, you need:
— 2750 steel
— 1075 plasteel
— 420 uranium
— 95 advanced components
— 35 components
— 105 gold
— 1 AI persona core

You can craft advanced components from 1 regular component, 20 steel, 10 plasteel, and 3 gold.

You can craft *regular* components from 12 steel, but you need a Component assembly bench for it.
You also need a Fabrication bench for crafting advanced components.

So, assuming the worst case, where you have to craft & dig everything yourself, you need:

— 2750 + 95×20 + 95×12 + 35×12 = 6210 steel
— 1075 + 950 = 2025 plasteel
— 420 uranium
— 105 + 95×3 = 390 gold
— 1 AI persona core.

Or if you can procure components without having to craft them:

— 2750 + 95×20 = 4650 steel
— 1075 + 950 = 2025 plasteel
— 420 uranium
— 95+35 = 130 components
— 105 + 95×3 = 390 gold
— 1 AI persona core.

Specifically:
— Reactor: 500 steel, 400 plasteel, 100 uranium, 20 advanced components
— Engine: 400×3 steel, 200×3 plasteel, 100×3 uranium, 15×3 advanced components
— Structural beam: 400 steel, 75 plasteel, 10 components
— Core: 250 steel, 100 gold, 10 advanced components, 1 AI core
— Sensors: 200 steel, 5 gold, 15 components, 15 advanced components
— Casket: 200 steel, 20 uranium, 10 components, 5 advanced components

TODO: Add costs of Component assembly bench and Fabrication bench

Tip: Choose your world seed carefully, and remember to reuse it.

It seems pretty straightforward, but you might not think about it when you're starting out.

A lot in Rimworld is random luck, but like most games, it is possible to control it. The easiest way to do this is to always use the same world seed when practising and executing runs. Pick a word to use as your seed, and then use the same location tile every time. What you will find is, for the most part, the map will generate the same every time you land. Find a location tile that has what you need in easy access. For example, when I was doing my human hat run, I knew that there would be a mostly intact structure just south of my landing spot. This enabled me to always pan to and set up my production indoors without searching around every time. I could also generally predict where my random spawn resources would be every time. When I was doing Any%, I always knew where to a settlement with the best roads would be, and I also found a seed that generated the least amount of mountains and most amount of highways.

And always remember to experiment and don't be afraid to try something new!

Bisqwit

IronOreAgate

RimWorld

eren_king_159

Tadeam

angelgggg

Tribe (5p)

Crashed (3p)

Rich (1p)

Alpha 16

Alpha 17

Beta 18

Yes, Cassandra

Nope

Yes, Randy

Sea Ice

Regular

Naked (1p)

(Unstable, do not use)

Beta 19

Any%

Build%

Naked Brutality

Extreme Desert

100% peaceful

100%

Unknown

Compromise

Merciless

1.1 + Royalty

1.2 + Royalty

Ascent%

1.2 + Royalty + Ideology

1.2 + Ideology

1.3 + Royalty

1.3 + Royalty + Ideology

1.3 + Ideology

lazy

regular

Ice Sheet

1.4 + Royalty

1.4 + Royalty + Biotech

1.4 + Biotech

1.4 + Ideology

1.4 + Royalty + Ideology

1.4 + Biotech + Ideology

1.4 + Royalty + Biotech + Ideology

1.5+Biotech 

Scenario

Ver.

100% Merciless?

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (BLD%)

Escape type (OLD)

Escapees (OLD)

Escapees (β18)

Difficulty (OLD ESCAPE)

Type

Difficulty-any%

Difficulty-build%

Difficulty-ascent%

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (HLH)

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (GOLD)

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (WOND)

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (DSTR)

Secondary category: Biome & scenario (check rules!) (99BO)

I revamped the categories today. Changes:

* The Escape category has been split into three separate main categories: Escape-any%, Escape-build% and Escape-ascent%. Previously the Escape category had four subcategories: any%, build%, 100% and ascent%.
* The Escape-build% category now has a ~~subca

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Moderation guide	Bisqwit 1 year ago
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