Suggestions

[flaviuvlaicu]

While playing got a few ideas

1) It would be nice to make an explosion animation or some damage to the surroundings if they receive damage from a natural gas explosion, in contact with anything that has a short / spark / flame

2) The dupes that have a higher digging skill to manage to climb and jump bigger gaps

3) Add radioactive elements in the game, suits upgrade for radiation and a nuclear reactor running with different minerals.Regarding nuclear reactor, there is an option to receive clean water and output polluted water and steam and of curse energy.

4) Ad a machine that can drill with pipe in any direction and access pockets of liquid and gas and brings it back to base without the need of extending your base through the whole map

5) Special agricultural lamps to grow plants faster

 

[sadovsf]

ad3) Maybe  not make it whole single machine but rather just things that would allow you to make such thing. Imagine Steam turbine generator, Reactor building heating water and requiring some radioactive material and maybe "heavy water" you would have to create etc... I would prefer to have more pieces one can use to create many things rather just one specific use building...

ad5) Maybe lights emiting purple light (only spectrum green flowers generally need for growing) they could maybe even accelerate growth but for sure have lower heat emmision

[BlueLance]

21 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

1) It would be nice to make an explosion animation or some damage to the surroundings if they receive damage from a natural gas explosion, in contact with anything that has a short / spark / flame

There are bombs and other such things in the game files, but these may be archaic, We do not know, but natural gas and hydrogen are both marked as flammable, so it is safe to assume this will indeed become a thing in the future.

 

22 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

2) The dupes that have a higher digging skill to manage to climb and jump bigger gaps

I think Athletics would be better for this, as they are more athletic, the problem is the game would have to do more calculations and this already eats into FPS in the mid to end game.

 

23 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

3) Add radioactive elements in the game, suits upgrade for radiation and a nuclear reactor running with different minerals.Regarding nuclear reactor, there is an option to receive clean water and output polluted water and steam and of curse energy.

I cannot remember if it was confirmed but I think there is information about this in the forums but I do not remember if any of this was confirmed information, But it would be safe to assume this will be the next step up in power and chances are radioactivity will act similar to germs but be impeded by distance from source and tiles it has to go through.

 

26 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

4) Ad a machine that can drill with pipe in any direction and access pockets of liquid and gas and brings it back to base without the need of extending your base through the whole map

I am not sure if I understand this properly, but if you mean a device which can puncture a pocket of gas/liquid in an area of slime etc then I would totally be for this because it would be easier in my opinion than having to open it up and have gas running about. Maybe make it similar to how drilling for shale works, Pump in one substance to get the rest out.

 

31 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

5) Special agricultural lamps to grow plants faster

I do not mean to be rude with this one but it would be fairly pointless at the moment, Crops already grow insanely fast, and they are incredibly unbalanced, If my mealwood grows any faster I would need 1 or 2 at most for a dupe, Once crops, food and meal requirements are added I think this + Hydroponics would be great for end game farming.

[flaviuvlaicu]

Regarding 4), yes a way to puncture it and on the other end to have a pump or something to extract it clean without going all over the place

[BlueLance]

42 minutes ago, flaviuvlaicu said:

Regarding 4), yes a way to puncture it and on the other end to have a pump or something to extract it clean without going all over the place

For this then chances are it will be a device which you possibly place outside the pocket with a single tile between it and the pocket, which it will destroy and essentially act as the new block, and you can pump in a gas or liquid that you want, Lets say Carbon Dioxide, since this sinks all other gasses would rise up and be sucked out by the machine until all thats left is the Carbon dioxide? That is my take on the machine. or it can just suck all the gasses or liquids out till its a vacuum.

[flaviuvlaicu]

Both options make good sense, and third will  be : If the pocket of gas has pressure or not.Cause if it has pressure, then gas will come out on it's own.Between the two you mentioned the one with the vacuum sounds more easy and the one with CO2 harder

[Michi01]

7 hours ago, BlueLance said:

I cannot remember if it was confirmed but I think there is information about this in the forums but I do not remember if any of this was confirmed information, But it would be safe to assume this will be the next step up in power and chances are radioactivity will act similar to germs but be impeded by distance from source and tiles it has to go through.

I suggested a similar radiation mechanic a while ago and I actually just had an idea. What if the overlay needed to detect radiation wasn't actually available by default? Materials that emit radioactivity could have an easily visible note in their description stating that research is required to be able to see the radiation but otherwise you'd have to be really careful if you try to handle radioactive materials without having done the required research, because you won't be able to tell which normal materials might've gotten radiation on them while your dupes transported radioactive materials around (radiation should not be in randoms spots of course, just near radioactive materials). If they change the research system in the future and perhaps make it so that certain research branches require certain materials to be delivered to a research station, they could even make unlocking the ability to detect radiation require a sample of a radioactive ore (while allowing you to already build protective suits against it beforehand).
This actually seems like an interesting system in general, it would make sense for certain research branches to require the examination of a material that is related to the buildings that will be unlocked. Finding out how to process oil could involve examining a sample of oil, finding out how to build hydroponic tiles could require a seed of a plant that needs to be irrigated etc.