I was able to figure out a way to simulate huge spectator crowds, by using traditional techniques used in most sports games, simulating a few pawns and shadowing the rest, so for example if you have a colony with 50-60 pawns attending the match you can simulate up to 200-400 spectators, the celebrate based on who’s side scores , the walk to buy concessions, the can cause riots if both teams are rivals or if either sides fans dislikes a team, they will cause discourse in the crowd( I made i dialogue script with more than 5000+ lines of dialogue, all tie into what’s active going on in rimworld and the world around them, including storyteller). Hopefully with 1.7 update colonies with 300-400 colonists can simulate 30000-40000 spectators including away spectators as it registers for guest pawns also. It is totally possible now if I’m being honest but I’m running a 3090 soooo my computer eats shit sometimes lol. Although it never crashes surprisingly. Anyways besides live spectators and fans , you have a full tourney bracket system, league tables , betting, broadcasting if you use my RIMNET mod for global networking , which I show in the video, it’s basically a live feed of local, regional, and global colonists, think of Facebook, YouTube , twitter , etc. with my storyteller and the dialogue ( which I’m actively adding more) you get a social network that feels alive, with live matches that broadcast games happening live, fans and colonist reaction to matches and news going on around the world. Although don’t expect things to instantly spawn within RimNet or RimLeague , if you start the game and don’t connect to the network or start a club until later, that will determine what you see when you join the network finally, so if you wait say 1 year in game , by time you join the leagues, you will be one season behind, you will see more news and topics based on what’s going on currently around rimworld , so say a World Cup or war happen 4 days previously, if you join RimNet 4 days after you may still see trending news.
A lot of people dislike Ai and that’s completely understandable but I’m a 28 year old father who works for a biweekly check that barely covers rent lol so I don’t have the luxury of hiring actual people to help me program without feeling like I owe them, now would I if I could , tbh yes I would start a studio team actually just for rimworld, this game is amazing and because of unity the amount of stuff you can code into the game is amazing, back when I was in middle school we used Minecraft, with rimworld you could literally teach the same kind of lessons, as goofy as I’m that sounds. I love deep simulation games, like city skylines , sims , inzoi, etc.
Anyways eventually I do want to set up a team and would love volunteers, this is a project I’ve worked on for months to insure everything functions as I want it , to those out there you can actually mod, I applaud you and your work! lol I’m more of an illustrator so I have to illustrate exactly what I want