OH WOW transit tubes just became way more usefull

[MythN7]

I diden't realize you don't need an access point on each end of a tube.

I am in the middle of building this thing, and they are taking the tube to the end of the line to build the next piece then running back to get more plastic. heh.

[Supraluminal]

In what situations is a quick one-way trip useful though?

...Are you jettisoning dupes into space at high speed?

[MythN7]

4 minutes ago, Supraluminal said:

In what situations is a quick one-way trip useful though?

...Are you jettisoning dupes into space at high speed?

can make Many exit points but not an entrance so its at least quick 1 way to the not so often traveled areas.

[Oozinator]

4 hours ago, Supraluminal said:

In what situations is a quick one-way trip useful though?

...Are you jettisoning dupes into space at high speed?

For vertical movement down ladder pole and up the tubes perhaps.

[chemie]

I find tubes useless.

* They take a full 2k circuit and use a lot of that power when heavily used.

* They are not easily built in base since you can't build through tiles, ladders, poles, art, vents etc

* Load/unload time make short distance in base travel not worth it

* Long distance, you usually are doing one-time exploration so no point to build out tubes

The one use case I had was to take dups to a slime storage and then to the mushrooms but now conveyors do that, only better

Conveyors take way less power and can be built through anything.  I feel like conveyors obsoleted the nearly useless tubes.