Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by shadain597:

Okay, that I might be willing to try. Losing a few hours of mostly combat-related play isn't nearly as daunting as losing however many hours of base-building and resource gathering.

IMO, base building, aside from the necessary temporary bases, is not what you should be doing in PD. Everything else is just part of the game, and PD teaches you how to be efficient in resource gathering and figuring out what you need to survive and what you just want, for whatever reason.

Oh, if I were to do a permadeath run, I'd definitely avoid any sort of elaborate base-building, though you still need some stuff. And all the gathering. In the normal game, progression involves a lot of non-combat stuff. And, personally, I don't care for doing all of that, then throwing it away because of one little mistake or some bit of RNG. But, y'know, to each their own.