[0.13] Make inventory size increase permanent
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:31 am
It is great that the power armor causes an increase in inventory size.
However, when you switch from Mk1 to Mk2, your inventry size drops back to normal in between. Everything in the extra slots gets dropped: in my case this was all the cool stuff I had taken out of my power armor, some of which landed on a belt and got whisked away into the depths of my factory!
From a realism perspective it makes sense that you can only carry extra stuff when you are actually wearing the armor. But from a gameplay perspective it is simply an annoyance to have to put down a chest and offload stuff in it just while you switch armors. Some players carry several suits of power armor with different loadouts. If you have to clear your inventroy between each switch then this will be very annoying.
In practice, nobody is not going to wear power armor once they have researched and built it: apart from the few moments while switching suits. So there is no gameplay reason why the size increase should not be permanent.
In Factorio, gameplay trumps realism (otherwise, why can I carry 100 iron plates in one slot, but only one pistol???) so there is a good reason to make the inventry size increase permanent.
However, when you switch from Mk1 to Mk2, your inventry size drops back to normal in between. Everything in the extra slots gets dropped: in my case this was all the cool stuff I had taken out of my power armor, some of which landed on a belt and got whisked away into the depths of my factory!
From a realism perspective it makes sense that you can only carry extra stuff when you are actually wearing the armor. But from a gameplay perspective it is simply an annoyance to have to put down a chest and offload stuff in it just while you switch armors. Some players carry several suits of power armor with different loadouts. If you have to clear your inventroy between each switch then this will be very annoying.
In practice, nobody is not going to wear power armor once they have researched and built it: apart from the few moments while switching suits. So there is no gameplay reason why the size increase should not be permanent.
In Factorio, gameplay trumps realism (otherwise, why can I carry 100 iron plates in one slot, but only one pistol???) so there is a good reason to make the inventry size increase permanent.