Goonhub
06-08-2014, 01:02 PM
I didn't think this would be necessary at first, but... given that the Arc Smelter seems to explode every other round due to people piling in erebite and plasmastone (and even regular ores, seeing as they're currently bugged to explode for some reason), I have to suggest it:
Please give the Ore Processing room and the Arc Smelter some fucking explosion resistance.
As someone who sometimes likes to play a Miner and get away from it all, I like to do stuff with my mining spoils later on. Bare in mind that mining isn't always a fast job: it can take something like thirty-to-fifty minutes to gather copious amounts of all the available ores unless the Miner has a stroke of luck with miracle matter, so naturally it is massively frustrating to make a triumphant return to the station only to see a gigantic crater where the Arc Smelter is supposed to be. It's a pretty huge pain for Scientists too, as reagents now have all sorts of diverse effects on materials and they would like nothing more than to test them and see what does what, when someone all of the sudden brings in a QM-ordered crate of erebite and blows Ore Processing sky high. And this isn't even counting that ores are currently bugged and go up in a violent fireball whenever the game feels like it, or whenever someone adds a certain chemical (no I'm not saying which one) to make them explode.
Short version: judging from past rounds, there's roughly an 80-90% chance that the Arc Smelter will be destroyed every round. This is way too high for there not to be any relevant blast-proofing in Ore Processing at all.
So, suggestions for fixing it? Well, for one: make the Arc Smelter immune by explosions. This is the main problem whenever someone carelessly handles volatile material, it usually takes the smelter out in the boom and ruins it for everyone else. As for room integrity itself, the reinforced floors under the smelter aren't enough, so perhaps the floors and walls of Ore Processing should all just be made of bohrum (which has high explosion resistance) or something as an example of what smelting can do.
I admit that I'm just spit-balling ideas, but I'm really getting tired of Ore Processing being destroyed so easily because of explosive materials and a bug.
Please give the Ore Processing room and the Arc Smelter some fucking explosion resistance.
As someone who sometimes likes to play a Miner and get away from it all, I like to do stuff with my mining spoils later on. Bare in mind that mining isn't always a fast job: it can take something like thirty-to-fifty minutes to gather copious amounts of all the available ores unless the Miner has a stroke of luck with miracle matter, so naturally it is massively frustrating to make a triumphant return to the station only to see a gigantic crater where the Arc Smelter is supposed to be. It's a pretty huge pain for Scientists too, as reagents now have all sorts of diverse effects on materials and they would like nothing more than to test them and see what does what, when someone all of the sudden brings in a QM-ordered crate of erebite and blows Ore Processing sky high. And this isn't even counting that ores are currently bugged and go up in a violent fireball whenever the game feels like it, or whenever someone adds a certain chemical (no I'm not saying which one) to make them explode.
Short version: judging from past rounds, there's roughly an 80-90% chance that the Arc Smelter will be destroyed every round. This is way too high for there not to be any relevant blast-proofing in Ore Processing at all.
So, suggestions for fixing it? Well, for one: make the Arc Smelter immune by explosions. This is the main problem whenever someone carelessly handles volatile material, it usually takes the smelter out in the boom and ruins it for everyone else. As for room integrity itself, the reinforced floors under the smelter aren't enough, so perhaps the floors and walls of Ore Processing should all just be made of bohrum (which has high explosion resistance) or something as an example of what smelting can do.
I admit that I'm just spit-balling ideas, but I'm really getting tired of Ore Processing being destroyed so easily because of explosive materials and a bug.