Hi everyone,

So it's time to start looking at those expanded backstories I've mentioned. I'd really like to expand on the idea of more personalised backstories for vat-grown kids - as players don't get to see how the kids grow up in-game it gives us a chance to fill in some of the blanks and make them a bit more interesting.

The system I have in place can easily read the current skills and passions of a vatkid when applying a backstory and select a more specific and appropriate story if they reach certain thresholds. That's the easy part.

The hard part is coming up with semi-original and (questionably) entertaining backstories that don't lean too heavily on specifics for each of these possibilities.

That's where I'm hoping some of you players might have some ideas - give me a little write-up for a backstory with the following info: the story title, which learning mode it applies to, the specific passion and/or skill requirement to get it and of course, the story itself.

Example:

Originally posted by MakeItSo:

Title: Vatgrown sharpshooter
Mode: Soldier
Passion: at least 1x shooting
Skill: 10+ shooting
Story: [PAWN_nameDef] spent most of [PAWN_possessive] childhood in a growth vat, where [PAWN_pronoun] spent most of [PAWN_possessive] time in the enhanced learning 'Soldier' suite.\nIn this simulation [PAWN_nameDef] attended a military cadet school on a high-tech urbworld where [PAWN_pronoun] excelled in the use of firearms.

Try and keep them short, too. Don't wanna take up too much space when the tooltip pops up. I don't have a max character limit or anything, just use your best judgement.

Don't worry if you don't use the [PAWN_*] tokens, just write your story for a fictional pawn if that's easier.

Once I get a few good ones together I'll start implementing them into the mod. Credit will be given to the authors in the mod settings page and mod description, of course :)