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[MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage
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Just tried a pipeburn setup that would normally work and it fizzled. Maybe its still doable, but welding pipes for an hour is not what I'd consider to be fun or engaging gameplay. Engineer is (maybe was) my favorite job because it was literally an engineering problem: You're presented with a system and a goal, and need to engineer a solution, with the PTL existing to quantify how good your solution was.

With pipeburns being practically impossible, now there's really no high-end solution to this engineering problem, and I'm not sure why. I'm not aware that anyone really disliked pipeburns or thought they were unbalanced. It was always fun explaining to newer engineers that yes, farting into an air scrubber for ten minutes is essential to an optimal setup, and that yes, the pipes will explode, and that no, you should not fix them. While a poorly insulated pipeburn could cause the nearby area to be uninhabitable, that's no different from an improperly-setup singulo or a powerful runaway hotspot. If they were overused, that was probably just because it was the single viable way to make a lot of power. The solution there would have been to add more ways to make a lot of power, not remove the only one.

At this point the best TEG strat is to buy a singularity engine.


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[MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by github_bot - 05-11-2022, 09:50 PM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-12-2022, 04:02 AM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Ikea - 05-12-2022, 04:50 AM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Azrun - 05-12-2022, 07:45 AM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Ikea - 05-12-2022, 01:49 PM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by nefarious6th - 05-12-2022, 02:55 PM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Splints - 05-15-2022, 08:58 AM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Confuseddp - 05-17-2022, 06:04 PM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Jakson - 05-17-2022, 06:59 AM
RE: [PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-17-2022, 07:53 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cherman0 - 05-21-2022, 08:15 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cal - 05-22-2022, 04:35 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cheffie - 05-22-2022, 05:15 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Piksqu - 05-22-2022, 10:50 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-22-2022, 11:55 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-22-2022, 03:58 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cheffie - 05-23-2022, 08:09 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by SenExus - 05-23-2022, 09:55 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-23-2022, 10:30 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-23-2022, 12:07 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by SenExus - 05-24-2022, 12:05 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-24-2022, 03:29 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-24-2022, 04:38 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cheffie - 05-24-2022, 02:41 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by SenExus - 05-25-2022, 10:20 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Azrun - 05-26-2022, 10:59 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cheffie - 05-26-2022, 01:08 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Kotlol - 05-27-2022, 03:48 AM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Azrun - 05-30-2022, 12:30 PM
RE: [MERGED PR] Scaling pipe leakage - by Cheffie - 05-31-2022, 04:15 PM

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