These are all great ideas! +1
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#167
Ideas / Different circuits for electricity (and heat, and control...)
April 14, 2015, 04:32:00 AM
Hi there.
I'm loving this game. I also play quite a bit of Factorio, and while the intent of those games are very different there's a lot of stuff that can be thought of as similar between them.
One thing I'm finding about RW is that there's only one kind of circuit, and you need to leave a full square's gap between cable runs if you're trying to isolate something for switching.
One idea that could be stolen from Factorio is the idea of colour codes giving you independent networks. So you have "red cable" "blue cable" "green cable" and they only connect to similarly coloured cables. This would enable you to have, say, a lighting ring that you can turn off during the day, or a ring to turn coolers off in winter and heaters off in summer.
If the ducting system from RedistHeat ever makes it into the base game, it would be useful for separating hot and cold heating circuits too
I'm loving this game. I also play quite a bit of Factorio, and while the intent of those games are very different there's a lot of stuff that can be thought of as similar between them.
One thing I'm finding about RW is that there's only one kind of circuit, and you need to leave a full square's gap between cable runs if you're trying to isolate something for switching.
One idea that could be stolen from Factorio is the idea of colour codes giving you independent networks. So you have "red cable" "blue cable" "green cable" and they only connect to similarly coloured cables. This would enable you to have, say, a lighting ring that you can turn off during the day, or a ring to turn coolers off in winter and heaters off in summer.
If the ducting system from RedistHeat ever makes it into the base game, it would be useful for separating hot and cold heating circuits too