The state of Engineering

[Decarcassor]

Yeah, that was my point. I agree that we should try to remove lag machines from the intended gameplay, but I feel that the concept of feeding mass to the singularity is still interesting. Thats why I suggested an "official" way to go about it instead of weird exploits involving infinite items.

Well mining has this funny little doodad called a mineral accumulator. Its hardly ever used for standard mining because its not needed at all. But what it does is drag ore and teleport it to a selected pad. So in theory you could build a telepad in a corner of the singulo enclosure and send mining's useless byproduct (mainly rocks) automatically via the accumulators.

The problem is that accumulators only drag actual ores and ignore rocks. Also they are kinda slow.

You could in theory set up an entire magnet (built, or just the outpost one) in auto mode with accumulators and digbots. But this would be quite the time consuming task and you'd have to adress the issue of power cells running out in the bots and accumulators.

So anyway, long story short. A small change to allow accumulators to drag rocks would enable some nice inter-department way of feeding the singulo without making it a manual tedious task. Being able to connect accumulators to a wire to keep them from running out of power and speed them up would also be a nice touch.

Botany could also easily contribute to such a system if they had an accumulator working on seed and produce, as lot of botany's stuff is just thrown away.