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by TROPtastic
Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #420 - Fusion Reactor
Replies: 108
Views: 21940

Re: Friday Facts #420 - Fusion Reactor

Looks like a decent addition to the game, but it seems like it would be more player-friendly to give the fusion reactor 2 graphical rotations instead of the 1 in the dev blog. Since rotating the reactor changes which connection points are available (coolant or plasma), it would be useful to tell at ...
by TROPtastic
Sat Jun 08, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #414 - Spoils of Agriculture
Replies: 397
Views: 51198

Re: Friday Facts #414 - Spoils of Agriculture

The spoilage mechanic sounds interesting, although extending it to science packs might make it optimal to put all your science labs on Gleba to maximize research rather than risking science losses from shipping. Perhaps spoiled science packs can be recycled in some way on Nauvis or wherever the main...
by TROPtastic
Sat May 25, 2024 7:48 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #412 - Undo/Redo improvements & Car Latency driving
Replies: 62
Views: 11791

Re: Friday Facts #412 - Undo/Redo improvements & Car Latency driving

Justderpingalong wrote: ↑
Fri May 24, 2024 11:41 am
OH MY GOD THEY'VE FIXED DRIVING.
Unless they've also made vehicles snap to exact angles, they haven't. Vanilla vehicles are effectively unusable for safe driving within the confines of a base.
by TROPtastic
Tue May 21, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #411 - All about asteroids
Replies: 70
Views: 13598

Re: Friday Facts #411 - All about asteroids

In addition to the other commenters who've mentioned that stars in the background shouldn't move at all (interstellar distances are incomprehensibly bigger than interplanetary distances), something seems off with the relative speeds of the gas clouds and the asteroids. In the final gif, when the shi...
by TROPtastic
Sat May 04, 2024 1:53 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Quality level names poll
Replies: 92
Views: 13417

Re: Quality level names poll

but I can assure you that real-life production engineering is rarely "epic" and never "legendary" ;) Don't tell this to real-world engineers or (lest gods save you) blacksmiths. The latter can give you a hammer for that. To catch. It coincides that our family does have some back...
by TROPtastic
Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:18 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Quality level names poll
Replies: 92
Views: 13417

A truly "perfect" naming scheme for the Quality system

TL;DR A quality naming system that replaces the fantasy/lootbox-inspired "legendary" and "epic" naming with the following levels derived from real-world gemstone grades: Fair Good Very Good Exceptional Perfect What? I've been kicking this around for a while, and I was prompted b...

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