[Idea/Suggestion] Ore Prospecting
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:41 am
Hello there!
I've been playing Factorio with several mods for the last couple of weeks (thank you Steam!), and absolutely love it!<3 (of course)
There's a few things I have stumbled upon that I am definitely looking forward to, as far as possible future mods go. Not a scripter myself, but I'm full of ideas
Let's start with the following mod idea - I had looked around, and stumbled on an older Prospecting mod, yet from what I read it didn't exactly do the thing I had in mind - So please pardon the use of a similar name, because a lot of my inspiration comes from the MMORPG 'Ryzom', which had a high focus on a gameplay element called 'Prospecting'.
[Prospecting]
Instead of starting out with all the generated ore visually represented above-ground, it would add an extra layer of game-mechanic if instead players would start off with a crude metal-detector carried in one of the hand slots, and all of the ore nodes were actually hidden! This first crude version of the metal-detector (solar powered) allowing you to scan for specified filtered base materials within a relatively small radius. The moment a hidden node would be picked up within said radius, you'd start hear beeping like every iconic metal-detector, allowing you to close in on proximity while the beeping gets more intense.
Upon having found the exact location of the singular node you'd be allowed to extract it, which will take another bit of your time until the node nicely reveals itself on the map for you.
Of course it would be logical that a many other singular nodes of the same ore type are connected, and thus need to have themselves revealed. The process of locating and revealing can therefor be pretty time and effort demanding, but that's where science progression comes in:
There could be science improvements to allow the metal detector to become improved, allowing you to locate more kinds of minerals (Bob's Mod's materials for instance would be nice, but I play it core along), increase the radius of your detection, increase the speed of extraction or perhaps even allow your solar powered detector to run at night.
But what about automating prospecting and extraction, with machines that do all the singular node detection and extraction automatically, provided you hook them up to a say, a little vehicle you can take along. It might solve a lot of useless time to get areas analyzed after you manually used your detector to locate specified ore in reach.
Hoping people might brainstorm along on this, and see if it's even possible - and of course, if anyone would find such a project interesting to work on!
I've been playing Factorio with several mods for the last couple of weeks (thank you Steam!), and absolutely love it!<3 (of course)
There's a few things I have stumbled upon that I am definitely looking forward to, as far as possible future mods go. Not a scripter myself, but I'm full of ideas
Let's start with the following mod idea - I had looked around, and stumbled on an older Prospecting mod, yet from what I read it didn't exactly do the thing I had in mind - So please pardon the use of a similar name, because a lot of my inspiration comes from the MMORPG 'Ryzom', which had a high focus on a gameplay element called 'Prospecting'.
[Prospecting]
Instead of starting out with all the generated ore visually represented above-ground, it would add an extra layer of game-mechanic if instead players would start off with a crude metal-detector carried in one of the hand slots, and all of the ore nodes were actually hidden! This first crude version of the metal-detector (solar powered) allowing you to scan for specified filtered base materials within a relatively small radius. The moment a hidden node would be picked up within said radius, you'd start hear beeping like every iconic metal-detector, allowing you to close in on proximity while the beeping gets more intense.
Upon having found the exact location of the singular node you'd be allowed to extract it, which will take another bit of your time until the node nicely reveals itself on the map for you.
Of course it would be logical that a many other singular nodes of the same ore type are connected, and thus need to have themselves revealed. The process of locating and revealing can therefor be pretty time and effort demanding, but that's where science progression comes in:
There could be science improvements to allow the metal detector to become improved, allowing you to locate more kinds of minerals (Bob's Mod's materials for instance would be nice, but I play it core along), increase the radius of your detection, increase the speed of extraction or perhaps even allow your solar powered detector to run at night.
But what about automating prospecting and extraction, with machines that do all the singular node detection and extraction automatically, provided you hook them up to a say, a little vehicle you can take along. It might solve a lot of useless time to get areas analyzed after you manually used your detector to locate specified ore in reach.
Hoping people might brainstorm along on this, and see if it's even possible - and of course, if anyone would find such a project interesting to work on!