[Suggestions] My list of suggestions after 40 hours play time.

[JohnvanTuyn]

Hi Devs,

Loving the game so far (and where I'm hoping it's going)!

Here's my suggestions (in order of how simple I personally think it will be to implement):

 

1. Make it so the power transformer can be flipped horizontally. This will allow easier & neater wiring when you build the generators on the right side of your base.

2. The growth time of the pincha pepperplant seems very long; perhaps change this to something a little closer to the sleet wheat growth rate.

2. The algae deoxydizer could have its algae consumption rate reduced (halved even), to make algae go extinct a little slower.

3. The algae terrarium could be made more useful by changing the crafting cost and the input and output to something like this:

            - Crafting material of the terrarium should be changed from dirt to algae. Making this a onetime algae cost.

            - input: water + carbon dioxide (no algae)

            - output: oxygen + algae (small amounts).

This would make the algae terrarium both more like real life and relieves the early game algae shortage & CO2 accumulation a little bit.

 

 

4. I’d love a new construction item that is a radiator (or heat exchange element).

 - This is basically just a liquid pipe that has very high heat exchange with the environment. The opposite of the insulated pipe basically.

This would allow players to more efficiently use the heat from a steam geyser to warm up rooms. Or pump liquid past icy zones to cool it then route it back to base to passively cool rooms.

This enables a kind of hard to plan, but energy efficient way to warm / cool areas of the base.

This currently works somewhat with the regular pipes but requires very long pipe tracks to significantly cool / warm surroundings.

 

 

5. I’d personally love it if the game respected basic chemistry better, meaning:

 - The natural gas, the hydrogen and the coal generators would also need to consume oxygen to burn their respective fuels.

- Plants would need to consume carbon dioxide to grow etc.

 

I realize this would require a complete rebalancing of the game mechanics, hence bottom of the list.

 

Thanks for reading and for making the game!