Goonhub
11-29-2020, 01:08 AM
What has increased the hellburn frequency? Easier and more understood at the cost of killing everyone or making an uninhabitable department?
What is making charburn setups so difficult? What is your expectation of the setup? My expectation is that people should be able to power the station and fully charge the SMES with some periodic interaction post setup given enough time (without the use of solars). I would expect some action by engineering as thematically and mechanically you are providing a resource the entire station relies on. Char burns have little to no risk but consume a resource and solars also have little to no risk. I think the frequency of needed interaction is something worth discussing. I think understanding all of your expectations might help bridge the gap.
Since engineering borgs won’t have a reagent container... they currently don’t have a path to engage with a sabotaged circulator to mitigate the 40% power decrease. I'd rather they had to seek out a silly carbon based life form to resolve the issue in general. As per our side discussion an Oil Can or something similar might be a good alternative as long whatever it was wasn’t compatible with the reagent dispensers. Seems like an interesting thematically and mechanically just not sure of the balance ramifications.
Your points regarding the serial numbers ring true to me. There is a lot there that honestly means nothing at the moment, and that was by design. I'm a little torn about surfacing the specifics like on the chemistry wiki, but maybe a little footnote on the setup instructions to point you in the right direction sounds interesting. “*NOTE: This is an experimental TEG where temperatures are not to exceed 1000K.” Then I could bury a list of different TEGs in a letter/email/etc that is findable for nice fluff. Looking back over the current implementation there IS a lot of noise so I think I’m going to tone that down a bit so there aren’t so many moving pieces and new models won’t possibly re-use previously cataloged identifiers.
Is it only successful if it is the most optimal setup? Are lubricants already the new thing to argue over like Hellburn setups? Were there no successful setups before circulators accepted reagents?
What is making charburn setups so difficult? What is your expectation of the setup? My expectation is that people should be able to power the station and fully charge the SMES with some periodic interaction post setup given enough time (without the use of solars). I would expect some action by engineering as thematically and mechanically you are providing a resource the entire station relies on. Char burns have little to no risk but consume a resource and solars also have little to no risk. I think the frequency of needed interaction is something worth discussing. I think understanding all of your expectations might help bridge the gap.
Since engineering borgs won’t have a reagent container... they currently don’t have a path to engage with a sabotaged circulator to mitigate the 40% power decrease. I'd rather they had to seek out a silly carbon based life form to resolve the issue in general. As per our side discussion an Oil Can or something similar might be a good alternative as long whatever it was wasn’t compatible with the reagent dispensers. Seems like an interesting thematically and mechanically just not sure of the balance ramifications.
Your points regarding the serial numbers ring true to me. There is a lot there that honestly means nothing at the moment, and that was by design. I'm a little torn about surfacing the specifics like on the chemistry wiki, but maybe a little footnote on the setup instructions to point you in the right direction sounds interesting. “*NOTE: This is an experimental TEG where temperatures are not to exceed 1000K.” Then I could bury a list of different TEGs in a letter/email/etc that is findable for nice fluff. Looking back over the current implementation there IS a lot of noise so I think I’m going to tone that down a bit so there aren’t so many moving pieces and new models won’t possibly re-use previously cataloged identifiers.
Is it only successful if it is the most optimal setup? Are lubricants already the new thing to argue over like Hellburn setups? Were there no successful setups before circulators accepted reagents?