Insulated Tiles not heating from liquids or much slower then expected.

I think this behavior has been around for a long time and we just haven't taken note of it. I get the same thing reverting to RU.

Despite being quite old, this thread still seems largely accurate.

Piping has changed slightly. Cell/building appears to be unchanged (or only minorly changed). I've independently arrived at the same equations for those through experimentation. Assuming the cell/cell info is mostly correct, there is a 25x multiplier between gases and solids which doesn't exist between liquids and solids. Presumably this is for gameplay reasons, but it can cause odd situations.

 

The devs really ought to redo heat transfer as it's a janky, kludgy, unintuitive mess. For example, a cold building in hot surroundings can behave vastly differently than a hot building in cold surroundings, everything else being exactly the same. This should absolutely not be the case.

Edited October 5, 2018 by wachunga

Thanks @wachunga I suspected this was the case.  It always has seemed to me that the performance insulated tiles was always inconstant and that thread explains it nicely.  I remembered it from a while ago but.. well, it's been a while since I've read it!    It's good to know that ceramic insulated tiles will be good enough to contain hot liquids for the time being and I suppose I can agree with that.  If liquid-to-tile transfer was as fast as the gas-to-tile transfer, then just about no insulated tiles would stand a chance against containing the heat from any hot liquid.  Those puppies would heat up quick!  

Holy crap, that is maddeningly FUBAR.  Why are the devs not fixing this?