If you make us a list like this, a lot of it is super-easy to expose to XML modding. I think machine energy consumption might already be there. For stuff like generator output, it's just a case of us adding a new 'moddable' parameter called PowerOutput or something and adding a couple of lines to overwrite the hardcoded value with any present mod one at runtime.
A lot of great feedback in here and in the comments, thanks for posting it!
Ultimately, I think the market you describe is a fairly niche one. Not base building in general, but people who want to engage with systems like automation (through either logic chips or IC code) that relies entirely on the player to _want_ to do it. There is not (currently) a need to.
As far as the immediate future of Stationeers goes, we're looking at adding a mechanism to gate progression. The game has grown now to well over 300 structures and items and can be very overwhelming to players both new and old. We need to be able to drip-feed these to players so we're not giving them too many tools at once so they can learn the incremental improvements of each one in some more linear fashion. This will hopefully let us introduce the game to a broader range of players and slowly draw them enough to demonstrate that they may actually enjoy simply engaging with a system like logic automation...
Read moreYeah, I wish that heat functioned properly given that heat management is a large part of this game.
And with conduction: I was complaining about it in that the heat didn't conduct through the tank into the frame of the base while it was sitting in vacuum. (Yes, heat conducts into the air layer nearest the surface before being convected, but we usually neglect that)
I like your write up above, I'm sorry it took me so long to see it! Youre right, we've had to 'gameify' temperature mechanics quite a bit, but not just to save work on the simulation. Having objects store and rediate heat means you have to create a balanced world with sources of both heat and cold in some kind of balance or every game can just result in slow but inevitable heat death. I found this was definitely the case in my first few games of Oxygen Not Included (a great game i recommend you check out if you haven't already). In that game you can enable overlays that clearly demonstrate what is happening to the player and they can work to mitigate it. I would worry that not only would this feedback be difficult to provide to the player, but may not actually be that fun a mechanic, despite its realism. I hope that makes sense!
They may be running the previous branch.
Originally posted by the mood: 1. Is this feature in yet?
2. If it is in, where is it? (cannot find a menu item for it. Cannot find a key binding for it.)
3. If not in yet, WHY? (Anyone else watching the no-pause challenge streams of TaB?)
4. If not in yet, when can we expect something like this in?
Originally posted by Thalann: Does this mean you've sold .1M licenses?I Wish! Actually I don't, not yet anyway. The guts of the post was that we'll try run a Linux build and hope that it works without any major issues. If the issues are minor, we'll make it available. If the issues are major and require a bunch of work to fix, then we'll have to limit the resources we put into it until the sales figures justify it.
Why is it hard for the game to be released on Linux?Read more
We have built the game in Linux and it does run. However, it runs without DirectX and some of our graphics features only run on DirectX (such as volumetric lighting). There is no solution for that so there would be some visual degradation on Linux where there was no equivalent solution that we have on DirectX.
Most importantly though adding another version of the game involves making our already complicated build process even more complicated. One of the reasons we have been able to add so much content to the game is that we rapidly develop, deploy the build, and work with the community to get that implementation...
devtrackers.gg