ideas Totally my idea: Plasmastones?

[Madbro]

Hello, greatest developers and players!

I have doubted about our dupes’ mining cannons and blasters uses plasma as energy.

At that point I have a great idea - PLASMASTONES!

Plasmastone can be easily converted into plasma but it’s physical feature, is anti-plasma and very hard.

Build a Plasmastone Extractor on the Plasmastone deposit will give you 100g plasmastone every cycle.

And finally those awesome plasmastones will be uses in tool/weapon production.

Feel great? (•ω•)

Gimme a like and comment if you love it!

[Gwido]

Maybe for advanced tools.

But it also mean that the duplicant have to go recharge their tools again ... and again ... and again ...

 

I think they have enough work that need them to walk other the whole base to not add another one.  

[crypticorb]

Some ideas I like, some I think are not good. This is the latter, and here's why:

Early game, and for new players, requiring a recharge for their little omni-tool would be infuriating. New players already have a lot on their plate to learn and recover from mistakes, and forcing them to set up a recharge facility for the tools would be frustrating. For experienced players early game, it's just one more hassle to set up, making another hurdle to jump without adding any real gameplay fun.

Late game, when bases start to sprawl over the entire map, this would force players to have recharge stations at every intersection, and at every major construction project. This would either mean a lot more setup for every new project, or have every dupe hike across the map back to base, further increasing wasted time travelling.

For players playing around in debug to test builds, dupe interactions, and game mechanics, it's just another nuisance to set up, which is already kinda annoying for just messing around in sandbox.

I like many of your ideas @Madbro, and your cool hand drawings, but this one feels like it needs work.

[Madbro]

5 hours ago, crypticorb said:

Some ideas I like, some I think are not good. This is the latter, and here's why:

Early game, and for new players, requiring a recharge for their little omni-tool would be infuriating. New players already have a lot on their plate to learn and recover from mistakes, and forcing them to set up a recharge facility for the tools would be frustrating. For experienced players early game, it's just one more hassle to set up, making another hurdle to jump without adding any real gameplay fun.

Late game, when bases start to sprawl over the entire map, this would force players to have recharge stations at every intersection, and at every major construction project. This would either mean a lot more setup for every new project, or have every dupe hike across the map back to base, further increasing wasted time travelling.

For players playing around in debug to test builds, dupe interactions, and game mechanics, it's just another nuisance to set up, which is already kinda annoying for just messing around in sandbox.

I like many of your ideas @Madbro, and your cool hand drawings, but this one feels like it needs work.

Thanks. (•ω•)

[mr peeps]

As @Gwido said, I think it would make a great late game item. In the sandbox spawn menu, there are some seemingly unused tools. Maybe future stuff? Who knows. Maybe these things could be like upgraded guns and things to do work faster, like farming and things.