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It’s hard to manage the expectations of those doing the best in society, which applies as much inRimworldas it does in real life. It’s just a fact that the better off your citizens are doing or the more you have provided, the more they’ll come to expect from you.
While the inhabitants' expectations used to be as high as the sky, they have only grown with the addition of the Idealogy DLC. Now, if you’re doing too well at your base, your villagers will have their moods reflected by this new status as they start to expect more.
What Are Expectations?
When you first crash-land or begin your base in Rimworld, yourstarter settlers won’t expect muchout of their situation. Due to this, they’ll get a buff you canview in the ‘Needs’ sectionthat improves their mood based on how low their expectations are.
Once your settlers' expectations have increased, you’re stuck with it unless your society suddenly does worse.
If their expectations are lower, it means they’llget an additional mood buffthat is meant to balance out any negative factors when you’re starting out. However, this also tips in the other direction and candecrease your inhabitants' satisfactionas you start to do better. In the base game, it will stop providing the buff.
The standard expectations arebased on wealth and base progress, and if you can accrue more of it, you may begin to see your settlers' mood dip. The lowest expectations in Rimworld have since beenincreased by the Idealogy and Royalty DLCs, although they can only be seen with the DLC.
What Are Elite Expectations?
Elite Expectations were introduced in the Ideology DLC and can only be acquired by certain members of ideological jobs. To counteract the buffs provided by these roles,two additional negative expectationswere added, with ‘Elite’ being the lesser extreme of the two.
Similarly, ‘Noble’ and ‘Royal’ expectations were added in the Royalty DLC for royal roles, with the debuffs being similar.
Getting to the ‘Elite’ or ‘Supreme’ expectation levels can start todecrease a settler’s mood, so you’ll want to make sure that they have plenty of recreation types to maintain happiness. Thanks to the addition of the new content in the DLCs, you should be able to do this without too much trouble.
