Larger pipes and a small Dupplicant priorities change

[DarkIrek]

Hi
There are two things that bother me and both are easy(especially the second one) to implement and in my ignorant opinion both of them would be beneficial to the game (again the second one more than the first one).

First about  the change that is easier to explain.
I was playing the game as usual and I get more and more frustrated by my fps slowly dropping with every thing I build. So as in the title I think it would be nice to have larger pipes to reduce their amount as Im not 100% sure but I feel like those pipes are one of the biggest fps drains in the game. Even if its not the case It still feels like a small change for the game that could gain us some fps while making the builds cleaner. Currently I feel like crying together with my CPU when I have to build a second parallel pipe just to transport more of the same.

The second thing that I was thinking about are Dupplicants personal priorities.Now the whole range 1-9 of priorities doesn't seem really useful and i basically never use half of this range and that modification would change that. Every dup personal priority level is 10 "priority points apart" and in my opinion changing this to 5 would give players more control over dupps. For example now when you have a dupp with high digging priority (+40) and standard (+30) priority on storing that dupp will never store anything unless there is nothing to dig. With that change that would still be the case most of the time but if a player wants the dupps to do some digging but it isnt urgent if could be set to 1 for example and the storing on 9 would still be done first without using the !! or changing the priorities of dupps.
So basically as long as you set two errands with priorities that are more than 5 apart the dupps could do the thing that's one lower level on their personal priority first. Of course it could be made to be 2 apart or 6 apart or any other number and the effects would differ but 5 seems the best here.

That change would make the game more intuitive as I played really long cursing the dupps for not doing what I want before I saw that the personal priorities make such a huge difference. The few people I talked about feel like the priorities work strange and the reason seems the same. Its hard to say for sure but I feel like most people think that something with priority of 9 should be done before something that has it set to 1 especially when the personal priority level is only one apart.
Well its still only my opinion but I guess making a post wont hurt anyone.
 

[Tayphil]

I suggested larger pipes and ducts before. The intention was to admit the backbone/subgrid designs that we already have for electricity also for water and gas grids. Performance improvements would add to the list why we should have this.