Odd colonist deaths

[SoftwareSamurai]

So I've got over 1000 colonists now. I'm in the "end game" phase where I'm just maintaining my colony. I've been seeing, occasionally, odd deaths. When they're reported, I look at the colonist and I see nothing wrong. (e.g. Sanity 100. Comfort 95. Moral 67. But health 0.)

The last entries under health are:
"Well rested +10"
"Well rested +10"

The last entries under morale are:
"Living in luxury +5 (Comfort)"
"One with the universe +5 (Sanity)"
"Struggling to survive -10 (Health)"

Huh? How could a colonist be "struggling to survive" with tons of food, comfort, services, etc.?? Oh, and these are usually youths, not seniors.

Has anyone else noticed these?

 

[SoftwareSamurai]

Hey! During an electrical dust storm, can a lightning strike right at the entrance/exit of a passageway KILL a colonist right there??
I think I just saw that happen! That would totally explain these odd deaths.

EDIT: Yep, that's what's happening. I just saw it happen in front of me.

 

[wutsdis]

Yes, it is possible to die from a lightning strike in the game.

 

[SoftwareSamurai]

I can certainly agree that if a colonist is outside at the time of the strike, that would make sense. But I'm a bit perplexed as to how a colonist can get hit/killed while inside a dome (or passage). And in fact, I've seen a dome take a direct lightning hit and nothing happened to the nearby colonists. So that why I couldn't believe it at first. I guess there's some vulnerability for colonists that are on the passage connection platforms when lightning hits?

 

[wutsdis]

Oh, so your colonists were not walking around outside? Then this seems like a bug.

 

[Timjames]

I got an event where one colonist snapped, went into a drone hub, and set it to self-destruct. I had a choice to save the drone hub or save the man, and I chose the hub. It was in the early game, necessary repairs were underway, and if I lost that hub then all my other colonists would probably have died.

Since this was the first colonist death, I got an event eulogizing this guy who almost doomed us all. It felt disingenuous, like I was lying by giving a speech about how heroic this man was. I know he was probably insane, and couldn't control or comprehend his actions, but at the end of the day he almost killed us all.

 

[VATROU]

I got an event where one colonist snapped, went into a drone hub, and set it to self-destruct. I had a choice to save the drone hub or save the man, and I chose the hub. It was in the early game, necessary repairs were underway, and if I lost that hub then all my other colonists would probably have died.

Since this was the first colonist death, I got an event eulogizing this guy who almost doomed us all. It felt disingenuous.

Oh man. That sounds horrible. Though I would have made the same choice, drone hubs are more important. I nearly lost all my founders in the evaluation stage due to sabotage. Scanned a planetary anomaly and discovered some ruins. Some other rival colony wasn't happy and I lost ten colonists.