Ice Flingomatic should ignore Endothermic Fires


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I don't know how an endothermic fire would work scientifically (IF it would even work), but fact is that it would extract heat from it's surroundings. When all it's surroundings are ice, and thus cold, it would be a lot harder to still extract heat from it.

 

It's backwards anyway. It's even in the description of the endothermic firepit: more efficient, but still backwards. :p

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Scientifically I doubt a 'cold fire' would work.   In terms of the game, I suspect it's a "negative heat source".  In other words, it doesn't "extract heat," it "radiates cold."  That's probably why the flingomatic targets it - It registers a "heat source/fire" and disregards the fact that said heat source is negative.  It's a bit odd, since the flingomatic also attacks things that are 'hot.'  My only conclusion is that it targets both things that are hot and things that are fire, regardless of temperature, even though any fire you'd actually want to put out will also be hot.

 

What this effectively means is the flingomatic is specially programmed to take out endothermic fires, which is silly.

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In fact, I hadn't been using the flingomatic yet, but I did yesterday. I have to agree that it is strange that it targets the endothermic fire pit, since, like you said, it isn't hot, and thus isn't a danger for it's surroundings.

 

Still, during midnight, most things won't catch fire, and if they do you'll have to extinguish them by hand. During day, when the ice flingomatic is most usefull, you can leave it running, since you most likely won't need to have the endo fire pit working. If you need cool down the thermal stone, it can be cooled in the ice box.

 

I've thought a bit more about endo fires in real life, and came to the conclusion that it seems impossible. Visible flames exist of particles, that light up due to the heat. Since an endothermic fire pit is cold, it can not heat up particles.

Endothermic reactions, on the other hand, do exist.

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Yes please! It drives me crazy that the Flingomatic puts out the endothermic fire!

 

While we're dreaming, it would also be great if the circle of effect could become visible again, perhaps when you examine the Flingomatic? I am always afraid I'm about to put something juuuust outside the circle... I'm not sure if the flingomatic can handle a full-fledged fire if it were to spread to camp!

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