Friday Facts #173 - Nuclear stuff is almost done

[kovarex]

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-173

[Eitelkeit]

Well, i really liked the nuclear mechanics described in previous FFF. Now it looks quite simplistic and doesn't sound like that much of a fun. Heat pipes by themselves, without even meltdown or any kind of risk aren't satisfying at all

[SHiRKiT]

Well, i really liked the nuclear mechanics described in previous FFF. Now it looks quite simplistic and doesn't sound like that much of a fun. Heat pipes by themselves, without even meltdown or any kind of risk aren't satisfying at all

Meltdowns makes anything NOT FUN at all. Huge complex jumps are not good. If they want to add more complex stuff, they could be in a way that it's incremental.

[IronCartographer]

Well, i really liked the nuclear mechanics described in previous FFF. Now it looks quite simplistic and doesn't sound like that much of a fun. Heat pipes by themselves, without even meltdown or any kind of risk aren't satisfying at all

Even without those things (which can be added later as mentioned, or possibly even modded in with the right event hooks) this will provide a welcome alternative to solar sprawl.

Meltdowns makes anything NOT FUN at all. Huge complex jumps are not good. If they want to add more complex stuff, they could be in a way that it's incremental.

A deterministic way to trigger destructive events in factory components could be useful--an extremely over-engineered garbage disposal comes to mind. As for jumps in complexity, the various components like cooling towers and reheating could be gated behind a different tier of research--or even unlocked before nuclear to improve coal efficiency!

[RawX]

Well, i really liked the nuclear mechanics described in previous FFF. Now it looks quite simplistic and doesn't sound like that much of a fun. Heat pipes by themselves, without even meltdown or any kind of risk aren't satisfying at all

Meltdowns makes anything NOT FUN at all. Huge complex jumps are not good. If they want to add more complex stuff, they could be in a way that it's incremental.

As for a slower progressing comlexity: You could make cooling towers etc. only necessary for multireactor setups.

[Arch666Angel]

I like the addition of heat pipes, they open up a lot of possible uses. I hope that they can also be added to assembler types like fluid boxes.

What I dont like is the productivity research for the miners, aside from the point that I personally dont like the concept of productivity modules, it really doesnt add anything to the game, except pressing the research button and the problem with moving your mines is still the same, maybe delayed a bit but that will quickly be consumed when you ramp up your production.

Hope we will get the update soon, so I can start modding and play around with the new features

[chris13524]

I'm disappointed that you've decided to drop the cooling towers and stuff, I think it would've made the process much more interesting. Even if it has a huge jump in complexity, you should still be able to use steam engines to process the generated steam, but they wouldn't be nearly as efficient as the turbines and cooling towers. Also, I really liked the idea of meltdowns, it again, would make it much more interesting. By the time you grasp the ability to process uranium and stuff, you should be fairly experienced in combinator logic to be able to maintain production levels (and there would probably be blueprints from the library for newer players to do it anyways).

[quinor]

Will the water/steam separation still be a thing? It was THE awesome part of whole power overhaul...

[Klonan]

Will the water/steam separation still be a thing? It was THE awesome part of whole power overhaul...

Yep, the boiler changes will stick: boilers still output to the seperate fluidbox

[mophydeen]

Meltdown could mean:
1 reactor is running
2 someone disconnects power line to factory (=0 load)
3 BOOM?


No fun

[malecord]

What impact has this thing on pollution? Apart from mining, refining and enriching I mean. Is the reactor clean or will it produce pollution to compensate for the fact that there is are no by-products or meltdown events to handle?

[Necros]

While we wait for 0.15 , can we have the current version of HD textures?

[fregate84]

Meltdown could mean:
1 reactor is running
2 someone disconnects power line to factory (=0 load)
3 BOOM?


No fun

we can have a alarm, and 120 sec to recover. it's funny because we must build some logistic to let reactor on good condition.

Game are also save each 5 min ...

it will be very nice to be able to choose 2 setup : one with no danger but "medium" power, and one with risks and "high power".

[Jonathan88]

This is looking pretty amazing so far

A few things:
I love the way the heat pipes and the normal pipes don't connect - can we have another normal pipe which doesn't connect to other pipes too?
Please keep the "Kovarex enrichment process" research - it would just be the best little Easter Egg
The way the reactors become more complex is awesome - making your own ridiculously complex set ups will be so cool!
And most importantly:
The reactor meltdown in my opinion is the most important part of it all - perhaps it can leave a massive source of pollution which cannot be removed for a while, attracting all the mutated biters with strange limbs sticking out of their heads

[Fortanono]

A quick thought: The centrifuge needs more uses. The best idea I had was to make a new endgame tier of materials using the centrifuge, basically processing ores like iron and copper to get niche metals you need for rocket parts. Would add more diversity to the endgame and make it less like "wait for plastic to fill up". More production chains to set up, y'know?

[SHiRKiT]

I like the addition of heat pipes, they open up a lot of possible uses. I hope that they can also be added to assembler types like fluid boxes.

What I dont like is the productivity research for the miners, aside from the point that I personally dont like the concept of productivity modules, it really doesnt add anything to the game, except pressing the research button and the problem with moving your mines is still the same, maybe delayed a bit but that will quickly be consumed when you ramp up your production.

Hope we will get the update soon, so I can start modding and play around with the new features

I also agree that it's not much productive. Maybe if it's not a linear cost increase.

[Undermind]

RIP in peace nuclear power.

[DaveMcW]

Math for the mining productivity research:

100% productivity = 0 science packs
200% productivity = 127,500 science packs
300% productivity = 505,000 science packs
400% productivity = 1,132,500 science packs
500% productivity = 2,010,000 science packs
600% productivity = 3,137,500 science packs
700% productivity = 4,515,000 science packs
800% productivity = 6,142,500 science packs
900% productivity = 8,020,000 science packs
1000% productivity = 10,147,500 science packs

The raw rate of return is decreasing, but at a very slow rate. If your factory expands faster than that, you could consider the rate of return to increase.

[Najjjjj]

I don't think adding everything once is a good idea as in: add the nuclear power but keep the overheat, the meltdown for the next update (0.15.1...)

[Selvek]

What's the object being removed from the reactor? It looks like an empty fuel container, but the nuclear fuel assembler looks like it only takes iron plates, so no refills. Or is it something more sinister like spent fuel rods?