Furnace upgrades
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:22 am
A very simple suggestion: make a steel furnace upgradeable to an electric one.
Reason: sooner or later in game I always want to replace steels with electrics, just so I don't need to run coal and divert it from power and can use modules. However, in the end I wind up with tons of obsolete furnaces. I can live with a couple obsolete mining drills, but it pains my OCD to see a dozen or more steel furnaces just clogging up some chest. It is especially important now, as with 0.9.0 electric furnaces are very tedious to reach without a well-developed infrastructure.
Regular stone furnaces, BTW, don't have this problem - they are upgradeable to boilers.
Reason: sooner or later in game I always want to replace steels with electrics, just so I don't need to run coal and divert it from power and can use modules. However, in the end I wind up with tons of obsolete furnaces. I can live with a couple obsolete mining drills, but it pains my OCD to see a dozen or more steel furnaces just clogging up some chest. It is especially important now, as with 0.9.0 electric furnaces are very tedious to reach without a well-developed infrastructure.
Regular stone furnaces, BTW, don't have this problem - they are upgradeable to boilers.