Goonhub
10-31-2023, 12:07 AM
Departmental interdependence is nice, in theory. However the design of other engines doesn't really lean that way.
Geothermal is 100% engineers. Nuclear, on Nadir, is again 100% engineers, via the siphon. On Clarion they fully rely on mining for materials, but it stays within the CE's territory.
The singularity only craves usage of Sci's gas coolers. Otherwise, it's 100% engineers, who expand the singulo, build more collectors, set up feeders, collect food. Occasionally mining or cargo are sources of engine food.
Then there's the TEG. TEG's power output without the help of other departments is BAD. 5 to 25 MW before the entire hot loop bursts into flames. Or you can begin a pipeburn and accept that the rest of your life will be babysitting pipes. (Nuclear is the only other engine that explodes if you leave it alone, by the way - and only if you set it up to.)
The ideas in my OP are mostly with the combustion chamber in mind. More resource abundance leads to more experimenting. It's sure to make pipeburns easier too, but I don't know why anyone sane would volunteer to do a high power pipeburn more than once.
Geothermal is 100% engineers. Nuclear, on Nadir, is again 100% engineers, via the siphon. On Clarion they fully rely on mining for materials, but it stays within the CE's territory.
The singularity only craves usage of Sci's gas coolers. Otherwise, it's 100% engineers, who expand the singulo, build more collectors, set up feeders, collect food. Occasionally mining or cargo are sources of engine food.
Then there's the TEG. TEG's power output without the help of other departments is BAD. 5 to 25 MW before the entire hot loop bursts into flames. Or you can begin a pipeburn and accept that the rest of your life will be babysitting pipes. (Nuclear is the only other engine that explodes if you leave it alone, by the way - and only if you set it up to.)
The ideas in my OP are mostly with the combustion chamber in mind. More resource abundance leads to more experimenting. It's sure to make pipeburns easier too, but I don't know why anyone sane would volunteer to do a high power pipeburn more than once.