Algea terarrium & algae spawners

[OhhItsModd]

I been playing this game for about 3 days and i have failed 8 colonies, now working on my ninth colony and one thing i notice is that its very difficult to find algae. 

Its common on maybe the first hundreds to two hundreds square block but after that its pretty much rare from there on. 

Also the algae terarrium soaks up too much water. I manage to last up to 100-120 cycle max but after that all my liquid is dry. Even tried to salvage the contaminated water to produce water but its just wasnt enough to support all the algae terarrium. Also contaminated water is hard to find too.

I tried putting the algae terarrium on the lowest level of my colony and built the top level with gas tile so i dont need to use too much algae terarrium but once u ran out of water and algae, thats it for your colony.

so maybe a suggestion is to lower the cost of water the algae terarrium took to produce oxygen like maybe half the cost of its water intake and probably add more algae spawners. Other than that the game is in good development.

[Ryan Rutledge]

Something I would be very gratified to see designed into space survival games like this is a good dose of realism. I love that the duplicants respirate and that carbon dioxide is a heavier gas. I would love to see that kind of detail extended to other systems like algae farming. Algae can certainly participate in a closed-loop system and not consume water in the way that they currently do in ONI. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_ecological_system

I would like to see many things not consume so much water, but possibly put water into the air when done, eventually resulting in humidity that has to be managed with condensers and such to prevent water dripping all over the place.

[mjom]

2 hours ago, OhhItsModd said:

I been playing this game for about 3 days and i have failed 8 colonies, now working on my ninth colony and one thing i notice is that its very difficult to find algae. 

Its common on maybe the first hundreds to two hundreds square block but after that its pretty much rare from there on. 

Also the algae terarrium soaks up too much water. I manage to last up to 100-120 cycle max but after that all my liquid is dry. Even tried to salvage the contaminated water to produce water but its just wasnt enough to support all the algae terarrium. Also contaminated water is hard to find too.

I tried putting the algae terarrium on the lowest level of my colony and built the top level with gas tile so i dont need to use too much algae terarrium but once u ran out of water and algae, thats it for your colony.

so maybe a suggestion is to lower the cost of water the algae terarrium took to produce oxygen like maybe half the cost of its water intake and probably add more algae spawners. Other than that the game is in good development.

just forget alge. build a electroliser and gas pump with separator walve. pump back the oxigen into ur base and rest to hidrogen generator. ur only problem the  the water now. but if u put a walve into the pipeline of the electroliser adn set it to 1kg/sec ur water will hold 10 times longer. its will be enough for a irl week if u have less than 10 clone.

[mr_anderson]

3 hours ago, OhhItsModd said:

I been playing this game for about 3 days and i have failed 8 colonies, now working on my ninth colony and one thing i notice is that its very difficult to find algae. 

Its common on maybe the first hundreds to two hundreds square block but after that its pretty much rare from there on. 

Also the algae terarrium soaks up too much water. I manage to last up to 100-120 cycle max but after that all my liquid is dry. Even tried to salvage the contaminated water to produce water but its just wasnt enough to support all the algae terarrium. Also contaminated water is hard to find too.

I tried putting the algae terarrium on the lowest level of my colony and built the top level with gas tile so i dont need to use too much algae terarrium but once u ran out of water and algae, thats it for your colony.

so maybe a suggestion is to lower the cost of water the algae terarrium took to produce oxygen like maybe half the cost of its water intake and probably add more algae spawners. Other than that the game is in good development.

i think they should make the world bigger and add more resource variety so that we have more ways to produce oxygen and water. One of the solutions would be to gather chlorine or some other decontaminate to purify water.