tl;dr - Electric Smelter w/ Steel Slag doesn´t feel balanced for the investment you put into it. 10 steel per slag, plus the work needed and the power consumption doesn´t feel worth it for 10 steel.
I had been struggling with steel for a while, I no longer am after making mining colonies next to my base but in the early midst of my steel struggle I invested in the Electric Smelter.
I excitedly collected all the slag on my map. Slag from our original pods of which two of those four colonists are no longer with us and slag from pods crashing into our colony were gathered and hauled in a full work-day. I took one of my least busiest pawns (since we were struggling from the aforementioned losses earlier that season) and got him working on the smelter.
I watched as he melted down the slag and out pops : 10 underwhelming steel. All of the slag from the map, of which there is 17 would give me 170 steel. I smelted all of my available steel items and gained about ~103 steel. I made a very small profit off of my investment.
I moved on from the Smelter and about a day later I notice the lights in the freezer are going off. Scrolling to my batteries I realized my mistake, I left the damn smelter on. My food didn´t spoil luckily.
Is this balanced? Is this going to change come next alpha when ¨The Balancing¨ comes?
I had been struggling with steel for a while, I no longer am after making mining colonies next to my base but in the early midst of my steel struggle I invested in the Electric Smelter.
I excitedly collected all the slag on my map. Slag from our original pods of which two of those four colonists are no longer with us and slag from pods crashing into our colony were gathered and hauled in a full work-day. I took one of my least busiest pawns (since we were struggling from the aforementioned losses earlier that season) and got him working on the smelter.
I watched as he melted down the slag and out pops : 10 underwhelming steel. All of the slag from the map, of which there is 17 would give me 170 steel. I smelted all of my available steel items and gained about ~103 steel. I made a very small profit off of my investment.
I moved on from the Smelter and about a day later I notice the lights in the freezer are going off. Scrolling to my batteries I realized my mistake, I left the damn smelter on. My food didn´t spoil luckily.
Is this balanced? Is this going to change come next alpha when ¨The Balancing¨ comes?