Goonhub
06-23-2014, 11:51 PM
To be perfectly fair, there are a lot of reactions that react by heat, and thus a lot of reactions that Pyrosium would be good for.
The real problem, and reason it doesn't see that much use, is that BYOND hates it; most heat-reactant chems are best used in foam and smoke, which would naturally seem like a top candidate for Pyrosium, but using Pyrosium in foam and smoke causes server-stopping amounts of lag due to all the heat interval checks on what it hits constantly happening all at once. If this could be fixed, Pyrosium would be amazing, but due simply to the nature of BYOND I'm not holding my breath for it.
If you want to be all smartass-y about it, you could say that BYOND can't handle the amount of awesome imparted by properly-applied Pyrosium.
The real problem, and reason it doesn't see that much use, is that BYOND hates it; most heat-reactant chems are best used in foam and smoke, which would naturally seem like a top candidate for Pyrosium, but using Pyrosium in foam and smoke causes server-stopping amounts of lag due to all the heat interval checks on what it hits constantly happening all at once. If this could be fixed, Pyrosium would be amazing, but due simply to the nature of BYOND I'm not holding my breath for it.
If you want to be all smartass-y about it, you could say that BYOND can't handle the amount of awesome imparted by properly-applied Pyrosium.