Ichikai Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 So, the new Power Control Station allows Electrical Engineers to "tune up" any power generator by consuming Specialized Generator Parts. Specialized Generator Parts require 5 kg of refined metal. This means that if you have 10 generators requiring a tune up every 3 cycles, it will delete 50 tons of metal from the game over a course of 300 cycles. Isn't that a bit much, and deleting mass isn't good? Remembering the metal reclaimer art in the game, I figured a tune up job could "drop" 5 kg of recyclables made out of whichever the parts were originally made of. Which could then be reclaimed into their base ore. Additionally, perhaps extend this behaviour to include deconstructed (refined only?) metal buildings/tiles, or not. Pros: No deleted metal Game assets (partially?) already available Metal Included Hats? Cons: Additional strain on already overtaxed logistics I could be wrong The reclaimer: Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/86951-metal-reclaimer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLance Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I agree this makes a lot more sense, its not like the 5kg of metal suddenly disappears, I would expect it to turn into "Scrap Metal" which either needs to be re-refined or it can only be smelted. To stop it just being an infinite loop it could be that you need at least 500kg of the scrap metal before it can be reprocessed Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/86951-metal-reclaimer/#findComment-997917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichikai Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 When i give this further thought though, why does the whole process need to consume anything? Why can't it just be an investment of dupe time? The electrical engineer doing stuff at station "devising upgrade", then go to generator and "applying tune up". The last thing this update needs is more logistics load... Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/86951-metal-reclaimer/#findComment-997923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariilyn Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Also, when a building or pipe breaks it should drop scrap metal parts. Concerning the Specialized generator parts, maybe one part could cost more but be built once, then be fixed to a generator and remains in effect until the generator is deconstructed or breaks for any reason? It would become some kind of "upgraded generator" (and would still need time investment from an electrical engineer). I agree that it feels strange that the metal would disappears and I dont think this is supposed to stay like this anyway. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/86951-metal-reclaimer/#findComment-997940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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