ideas Engineering research on your buildings.

[Madbro]

Hello, greatest developers and players!

So what I am going to introduce today is an idea that I have tried to introduce months ago.

Engineering. Especially you can improve your appliences with engineering like increasing production rate or increased yield.

To start with your engineering research, a Engineering Workshop is needed to be built. Needs to employ engineer class dupes for this.

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Actually the idea about the outlook of that machine on right hand side comes from Don’t Starve. Combinding both academy machine and science machine.

Next time may be I should introduce some MK2 stuff.

Suggestions and improvement?

Please comment! (•ω•)/

[InternetGuy]

The description would say "Science Machine"

I think this would be like the power plant thing that enhances the machines in a room. They would add a new room which would be called factory or some sort. Just thinking. Enhancing a machine permanently via research seems to be OP in the game.

[Madbro]

9 minutes ago, InternetGuy said:

Enhancing a machine permanently via research seems to be OP in the game.

Or I think I should change its purpose on reseaching a higher tier device like the new sodium carbon-skimmer in my last post.

12 minutes ago, InternetGuy said:

I think this would be like the power plant thing that enhances the machines in a room. They would add a new room which would be called factory or some sort.

Oh yeah, that will be another good idea.

A new ‘factory’ room buff!

(But) That would be another thing.

[InternetGuy]

35 minutes ago, Madbro said:

Or I think I should change its purpose on reseaching a higher tier device like the new sodium carbon-skimmer in my last post.

Definitely would be awesome to have better machines! I'm really hoping for high temperature machines here.

35 minutes ago, Madbro said:

Oh yeah, that will be another good idea.

A new ‘factory’ room buff!

(But) That would be another thing.

I really did want a factory room since there's all these kinds of rooms introduced but none for fabrication. Maybe dupes would work faster in them or something.

[JahwsUF]

Forgive me if this isn't the original direction you had in mind, but I'd be down for some 'engineering research' to make some interesting buildings possible.

New Job:  Inventor (requires Scientist, Electrical Engineer)

New Research: performed at Engineering Lab, requires Iron/sec.  (Can be set similar to the Power Station if Refined Metal/sec instead.)  Rate is dependent upon Tinkering, not Learning.

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Any 'buffs' mentioned below would be manufactured at an Engineering Workshop and require regular (every 3 cycles) reapplication.   'Buffs' may never stack on any building and require Refined Metal input with possible additional resources like Plastic depending on the buff.

Potential researches:

Engineering (base research of the chain): unlocks the Engineering Lab.

Rocket engine researches would then stem from Engineering and require its points.

Industrial Modification:  requires Engineering, unlocks the Engineering Workshop and the existing "Engie's Tune-Up."

Sustainability: requires Industrial Modification, unlocks the "Precision" buff (for buildings with net mass loss, halves wasted material.  Example:  Petroleum Generator would consume 375 g/s less Petrol, as it consumes 2 kg/s but outputs 1.25 kg/s material.)

Industrial Engineering:  requires Industrial Modification, unlocks the "Fine-Tuning" buff (decreases Power consumption and heat production by 20%) and Conveyor Packer (heavy-duty Conveyor Loader - puts out larger packets of material per belt tile for increased logistics efficiency)

Thermal Engineering:  requires Industrial Engineering, unlocks heat-resistant, heavy-duty variants of the Liquid Pump and Gas Pump requiring Plastic and Refined Metal.  (Overheat temperature around 350 C - prevents easier Crude Oil cracking, but high enough to facilitate the Steam Turbine.)

Artificial Intelligence:  requires Industrial Modification and Computing, unlocks the "Prioritizer" module (allows our long-requested multi-recipe Electric Grill functionality across the board)

Bio-Engineering:  requires Engineering and Animal Control, unlocks the Feed Factory (allows production of 'fish food' [recipe: algae+meat] for small-mass Pacu feed, 'hatch food' [recipe:  Meat, Raw Egg, Bristle Blossom, Mushroom] for high-mass Hatch/Sage Hatch feed)

Basically, since Pacu are hard to maintain, this provides a lower-maintenance path to ranching them (with greatly reduced net returns aside from Egg Shell) and a higher-return Sage Hatch path for longer-term Coal production after other resource stockpiles are exhausted.

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While on one hand I'd love an 'advanced' Thermo Aquatuner and Thermo Regulator, I'm afraid increasing their operational limits would break the game.

[Madbro]

6 hours ago, JahwsUF said:

Forgive me if this isn't the original direction you had in mind, but I'd be down for some 'engineering research' to make some interesting buildings possible.

New Job:  Inventor (requires Scientist, Electrical Engineer)

New Research: performed at Engineering Lab, requires Iron/sec.  (Can be set similar to the Power Station if Refined Metal/sec instead.)  Rate is dependent upon Tinkering, not Learning.

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Any 'buffs' mentioned below would be manufactured at an Engineering Workshop and require regular (every 3 cycles) reapplication.   'Buffs' may never stack on any building and require Refined Metal input with possible additional resources like Plastic depending on the buff.

Potential researches:

Engineering (base research of the chain): unlocks the Engineering Lab.

Rocket engine researches would then stem from Engineering and require its points.

Industrial Modification:  requires Engineering, unlocks the Engineering Workshop and the existing "Engie's Tune-Up."

Sustainability: requires Industrial Modification, unlocks the "Precision" buff (for buildings with net mass loss, halves wasted material.  Example:  Petroleum Generator would consume 375 g/s less Petrol, as it consumes 2 kg/s but outputs 1.25 kg/s material.)

Industrial Engineering:  requires Industrial Modification, unlocks the "Fine-Tuning" buff (decreases Power consumption and heat production by 20%) and Conveyor Packer (heavy-duty Conveyor Loader - puts out larger packets of material per belt tile for increased logistics efficiency)

Thermal Engineering:  requires Industrial Engineering, unlocks heat-resistant, heavy-duty variants of the Liquid Pump and Gas Pump requiring Plastic and Refined Metal.  (Overheat temperature around 350 C - prevents easier Crude Oil cracking, but high enough to facilitate the Steam Turbine.)

Artificial Intelligence:  requires Industrial Modification and Computing, unlocks the "Prioritizer" module (allows our long-requested multi-recipe Electric Grill functionality across the board)

Bio-Engineering:  requires Engineering and Animal Control, unlocks the Feed Factory (allows production of 'fish food' [recipe: algae+meat] for small-mass Pacu feed, 'hatch food' [recipe:  Meat, Raw Egg, Bristle Blossom, Mushroom] for high-mass Hatch/Sage Hatch feed)

Basically, since Pacu are hard to maintain, this provides a lower-maintenance path to ranching them (with greatly reduced net returns aside from Egg Shell) and a higher-return Sage Hatch path for longer-term Coal production after other resource stockpiles are exhausted.

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While on one hand I'd love an 'advanced' Thermo Aquatuner and Thermo Regulator, I'm afraid increasing their operational limits would break the game.

Wow. Thanks dude. (•ω•)