Atmospheric Pipe Changes Megathread

[Lord_earthfire]

It might just be my personal preference, but let's try not to normalize lowering benchmarks.
I have heard singularities made in massive sizes and due to the new HPD, could make ultra-cooled plasma that could give you terrawatts of energy
I heard nuclears making gigawatts with the correct rod configurations and resource.
Geothermal can easily achieve gigawatts with a savvy enough engineer that could stack them and willing to dig inside the trenches.

These methods were also equally as hard and rightfully so. There are a sub-community of people trying to code-dive and optimize their setups: How many shields and arrays to build around a massive singulo? What's the behaviour of emitters? How many singulo would you need to stack? How to make the ultimate fuel rods for nuclear? What's the best configuration so neutron doesn't end up flying everywhere? How do I read the doppler shifts? How to stack the hotspots without mucking up the station? Given enough time, they too can (and will someday) break beyond terrawatts.

I agree, but here's the catch: these methods don't scale infinitely without you expending recources. Or are even capped. Stacking hotspots? Keep on printing those vent generators. And that doesn't go infinetly higher. Nuclear reactor? Hope mining does their job and the output is soft limited by the reactor exploding. Singularity? Most feeders require manual work and the ones that don't (e.g. PTL, trip wire laser, thermal paper printer) got nerfed/fixed.

The pipeburn? Once set up, it keeps on scaling. Without the welding, all you need to do is keep supplying it with oxygen. And the soft cap here is the pipe failure pressure. I personally don't like time through welding being the upkeep, though.