Polluted Oxygen side effects

[Jigsawn]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but right now it seems that breathing polluted oxygen has no ill-effects on your dupes.

To make contact with polluted oxygen more interesting, how about giving it some side effects? Dupes surely aren't going to like breathing dirty air! Here's some ideas for side-effects (I'd just have one from the list, more if you wanted it to be harsher).

• Increases stress by X% per cycle if breathed during that cycle.
• Lowers athletics by X number of points whilst breathing the oxygen, to reflect its nastiness.
• Longer term exposure can cause dupe illness or stats decreases (similar to hypothermia)

Currently I'm not sure whether you can clean polluted oxygen, presumably you can (filtration devices?), but this would give you more incentive to do so. If there isn't a current cleaning method, that's another thing that can be added to the game.

I think this change would make polluted oxygen more engaging, it wouldn't stop you from working in it, but in the long term you'd want to get a cleaner supply to your dupes. You would need to be prepared for long term effects, if you insist on sending dupes into areas where polluted oxygen is the only thing for them to breath.

Edit: I don't know if it already does this, but contact with polluted oxygen should make your dupes a lot more Grimy.

[BlueLance]

Polluted oxygen has no side effect other than letfing slimelung multiply at a pretty high rate. If you can keep it entirely clean and untouched by slimelung you can use it as normal oxygen, but i do wish there was a stress debuff

[Supraluminal]

There are a couple of ways to purify polluted oxygen (aka PO2), the main one being deodorizers. I already build deodorizers everywhere because sand (which they consume) is plentiful and it keeps slimelung down.

I agree that it would be cool if PO2 were more interesting somehow, but deodorizers are so effective and spammable right now that it's kind of trivial to largely eliminate PO2. I'm not sure what the answer here is, maybe make deodorizers a little more costly somehow and make other purification options more viable? E.g. make certain plants convert PO2 to clean O2?

[Elendiar]

7 hours ago, Jigsawn said:

можете ли вы очистить загрязненный кислород

you can liquefy gas in cooling tower, after heating it will be normal oxygen