[MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage

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If temperature can rise exponentially I don't see why a constant upper bound is necessarily warranted.

Are you saying that overcoming the proposed upper bound should be rewarded by not having to interact with the engine further?

I fully agree with what the others responses to this is.

As mentioned I am confused as to what you mean by that the engine does not need interaction further. It is completely viable to work on the engine all round tweaking and experimenting with it on a normal pipeburn to either maximize power or getting up to other shenanigans, as I said in an earlier post the TEG has so many more uses than simply generating power.

And even if you set a pipeburn up in a way that gives exponential gain without having to babysit it, and choosing to go about maybe repairing the station instead for example, how is that a bad thing? In any way at all how could that be a bad thing? It gives freedom to the players of an incredibly open game, not restricting you of having an enjoyable experience in whichever way you want. And all that is not even mentioning how you've always been able to fire and forget with the char burns, those burns take like 30 seconds to setup for goodness sake! The pipeburns take a lot of experience and a fair amount of time on a good day. 

I don't know if my perspective is flawed or not but to me personally, it feels like even if the intention was to make the experience better with the nerf, it has only made it worse for the people affected by it, and I know others feel the same, that's why I don't understand why nothing has been done to at least hold a vote, or an actual discussion about unmerging this. 

So far there are only 2 posts from you on this discussion, a discussion with almost 50 individual posts, and your first one was even before the merge itself if I recall correctly. Now a week later you respond here which I do appreciate, but your response is 2 sentences, of not really anything that will let us see your perspective on this at all. I think that communication is really important always, especially on here and when there is a fair amount of players frustrated with this change. I'd like to believe that you at least take our point of view and our responses to this merge into consideration even if you don't respond too much, but this question made me concerned:

"Are you saying that overcoming the proposed upper bound should be rewarded by not having to interact with the engine further?"

Many previous posts on here make it really clear that there's is so much more to pipeburns than setting it up and then forgetting about it, but you asking this question makes me feel like you haven't read through a pretty large amount of them, I could very well be wrong but if I'm not then man, come on.