Some notes after using this. I love the idea of the mod more than I like the mod.
Un-Intuitive
I first tried to run a double track of pipes down the shared middle wall of a double-sided bedroom row. Then connecting two outlets to the middle wall in each room. Didn't work. Should have worked.
Both of those need to change. If multiple outlets into the same wall work at all then you probably ought to be able to build them both ways, if not then neither way should be buildable. A lower pipe outlet simply shouldn't block an upper pipe. Or you could make the outlet connect to both pipes and raise/lower the temperature as needed, but you'd need some way to prevent it from switching between the two over and over.
The duct cooler needing to be in-line probably should be changed. It's not very 'gamey-game-sense' for it to need real plumbing.
Poor balance
I felt that given the high resource requirements of the entire system as a whole I was not saving any resources *or* space by complexifying my system beyond what vanilla offers. Real life is often like that, games aren't.
Just..erm....triple or more the intake rate of the intake vents. Maybe double the cooling/heating rate of the industrial units. And I really should be able to save 2 walls of space by doing the whole thing inside one wall...Not sure here, truthfully, this is the kind of this that needed to be tested at different power points.
For instance, I still need a 'duct tube' running down the center of my double-sided bedroom rows. Gee, I could also do that same thing and just use the vanilla heaters/coolers to cool the tube and vanilla vents to vent it to the rooms. What am I saving here? 1/20th of roof leakage area? Or do ducts leak too? If I want to cool a freezer with this system I need to cool the entire system down to 26F and use smart vents everywhere, what kind of leakage am I getting there? And I'm using a lot more electricity and metal for all that too.
Great idea, but not a useful mod in its current state.
Un-Intuitive
I first tried to run a double track of pipes down the shared middle wall of a double-sided bedroom row. Then connecting two outlets to the middle wall in each room. Didn't work. Should have worked.
- Can't place an outlet on both sides of same wall, unless you do so before they are built.
- Placing a lower-pipe outlet/smart outlet into a wall blocks the upper pipe. So only the first outlet is going to work...
- Duct cooler doesn't work without an intake vent. Can't just hook it up on the side and it works.
Both of those need to change. If multiple outlets into the same wall work at all then you probably ought to be able to build them both ways, if not then neither way should be buildable. A lower pipe outlet simply shouldn't block an upper pipe. Or you could make the outlet connect to both pipes and raise/lower the temperature as needed, but you'd need some way to prevent it from switching between the two over and over.
The duct cooler needing to be in-line probably should be changed. It's not very 'gamey-game-sense' for it to need real plumbing.
Poor balance
- Intake pipes are very weak. I needed 8 in a room with -30F temprature to cool a medium base in not-that-hot weather.
- Overall the industrial coolers/heaters don't provide enough bang for the buck when used in a central-air system.
- Overall mod not as useful as it could be.
I felt that given the high resource requirements of the entire system as a whole I was not saving any resources *or* space by complexifying my system beyond what vanilla offers. Real life is often like that, games aren't.
Just..erm....triple or more the intake rate of the intake vents. Maybe double the cooling/heating rate of the industrial units. And I really should be able to save 2 walls of space by doing the whole thing inside one wall...Not sure here, truthfully, this is the kind of this that needed to be tested at different power points.
For instance, I still need a 'duct tube' running down the center of my double-sided bedroom rows. Gee, I could also do that same thing and just use the vanilla heaters/coolers to cool the tube and vanilla vents to vent it to the rooms. What am I saving here? 1/20th of roof leakage area? Or do ducts leak too? If I want to cool a freezer with this system I need to cool the entire system down to 26F and use smart vents everywhere, what kind of leakage am I getting there? And I'm using a lot more electricity and metal for all that too.
Great idea, but not a useful mod in its current state.