JRup Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 When a category of material as well as the chosen name for what the molecular forge poops out is "mildly" confusing, I must ask if this conversation's been had before. Yes, I want to talk about insulation, the Grimace-colored material that forces dupes into rockets in the name of progress... Let's call it "KataiWool" ™ © ® Anything but "insulation", yes, we do get used to the usage of "insulation" as the term that refers to the abyssalite compound, eventually, but a catchy name would have been nice for it. (trivia: Abyssalite's other "name" is katairite...) Asbestos is already taken... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenIsAGeek Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Insulated Pipes made from Insulation are clearly for insulating things. Redundant redundancy redundantly allows redundant redundancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 20 minutes ago, KittenIsAGeek said: Insulated Pipes made from Insulation are clearly for insulating things. Redundant redundancy redundantly allows redundant redundancy. Wasn't it insulated insulation? I'm guessing the redundancy does increase the factor of insulation then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakura_sk Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 16 hours ago, JRup said: Anything but "insulation" Let's call it PIM (perfect insulation material) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 I remember an old thread about it with some wierd name suggestions but it got archived and i can`t find it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 7 minutes ago, Sasza22 said: it got archived You'd have to use your google-fu to find it... Even if you commented in the thread the history also disappears from your profile. IMO: I wouldn't consider having made another thread for this forum necromancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakomaru Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Beep boop here is the thread. My suggestions: Insulanium Isolite Nullium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 Nice, so it only took a couple of years to resurface the fight for a better name... Hm... Insulation, insulation, insulanium Gots a ring to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharraShimada Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I would suggest: Material formerly known as insulation and now renamed, because some people got confused. Short: MFKAIANRBSPGC When you translate this from simplified chinese to french, then to german, taiwanese, over to english this means "Insulation". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 @SharraShimada: You forgot czech & turkish. At least part of the silk road was not forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yunru Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 @JRup And you forgot from Text to Speech back to Text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 minute ago, Yunru said: And you forgot from Text to Speech back to Text We've got OCR for that :V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieDupe Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 On 1/13/2021 at 2:04 AM, KittenIsAGeek said: Insulated Pipes made from Insulation are clearly for insulating things. Redundant redundancy redundantly allows redundant redundancy. Still not perfect insulation pipes despite what appears to be the intention. Is it a bug that hasn't been fixed? Because insulated insulation tiles apparently have zero heat transfer with a few unaccounted exceptions. I figured it would be better to at least call the material "Insulus" or "Insulum", no idea why they literally called a material "insulation". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 5 hours ago, ZombieDupe said: Still not perfect insulation pipes despite what appears to be the intention. I never believed the intention was to provide perfect insulation from heat. The only thing that actually does that in-game is vacuum. I joined the crowd after official release. But I do recall there had been the ability to use abyssalite as a building material. The nerf that was earned for that is having to build with the new insulation material, which adds a nice hurdle to the game. When we look at the properties of the stuff, then we see that the thermal conductivity is a non-zero value. What we often get in the properties dialog is a truncated value that might make us believe it is actually zero. As a consequence of this, there shall be temperature variation in the material. It should be noted that temperature exchange with related environment/buildings/contents will be severely reduced if not completely negated. And that's the perk of this compound material. Here's a fun situation; behold, the compost made of insulation, will it cook my pufts or melt first?: For the curious: Nothing is cooking inside of it, polluted dirt is stable and dirt still comes out at a fixed temperature. Temperature is rising steadily as it has been operating mostly non-stop. I believe this to be so because the heat generation of the building is set to self and does not output to the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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