Nerf liquid airlocks - passing duplicants should destabilise the liquid column

[Tobruk]

As the topic says, it's too easy to create stable airlocks with oil+petroleum later in the game or simple water+pwater airlocks early on.

When a duplicant passes through a column of liquid 2 or more tiles high, it should disturb it and make it collapse.

[Sasza22]

This doesn`t really fix anything. It just makes the liquid lock bigger. The popular waterlock with steps would work just as well.

[degr]

Problem is game did not provide any other solution except "liquidlock". While this mod will be not a part of game, it make no sense to change something with "liquidlocks"

[AndreyKl]

On 7/6/2022 at 8:10 AM, degr said:

Problem is game did not provide any other solution except "liquidlock".

There are other in-game options.

• A dupplicant checkpoint can be used to force a dupplicant to wait while the 'airlock' is being depressurized. But this is going to be both a mayor delay and very large in comparison to a liquidlock.
• It is possible to place 'airlock doors' and a pump in such a way that all gas will be pumped out as dupplicants pass.
• I remember using transit tubes as a way to get in and out of a very cold area.

There are options, those options are just twice as large and comparatively power intensive.

P.S. Personally, never found a practical use for checkpoints. Way too bulky, too little flexibility. It should have been a 'logic' layer building that could be put under doors. And it's only wait or pass, should have been pass|wait|can not pass at all in this direction.

 

[degr]

2 hours ago, AndreyKl said:

There are other in-game options.

for sure