light, lamps and darkness

[degr]

What could be really good is update about light. Current implementation is terrible.

I suggest to do the following:

1. allow to set ceil lights on walls and floors

2. add "wall" lamp which could be installed anywhere

3. dramatically increate light radius for lamps, like in 10 times more strong then now

4. add penalty for skills if action done in darkness

5. add boost only if action done in "bright" environment

6. add passive light for jet suits

Why I complain about it:

In current implementation it make no sense to use light, too many efforts, to small benefits. I'm using them only for kitchen - because it used always, and for metal refinery or molecular forge, because it consume a lot of power. All other buildings just not worth it. If you want to make your base "bright", you need to set lamps each 3-4 squares, and it mean too many efforts for nothing. Also, just imagine how bad should be lamp, if it make light for 2 meters radius?

[pether]

Bonus for being in the light is already there and gives 15% bonus speed for performed tasks. But I agree that light has a lots of untapped potential. Probably to make it better and more fun game mechanic we would need to see some bigger changes than new lamps and penalties. I love DLC's trait that made duplicants fear darkness and require light for sleeping and I'd love to see more of those. Maybe some critter that require light to be happy?

Also - some dark shade overlay would be nice to see where it is in fact dark in the base