Comms Console uses numbers to dial up other factions and trade ships.

[Bozzarr]

My small idea is that Standard Comms Console would require you to write down numbers of other factions if you wanted to call them.
Every Comms Console would come with a small address book as well as notebook for any important information you might want to remember.
To acquire a number from a faction you would need to ask them for it as they visit, tribesmen would just write it down on sand with a stick and townsmen would give you small pieces of paper.
This new comms console would be good place to hide some Easter eggs, as well as new options , such as communicating with centipedes or even taking control of them if you knew the right code to connect to their internal matrix. Basically change Comms Console to a big, inconvenient , power hungry ,  cell phone .

Enjoy

[Untrustedlife]

My small idea is that Standard Comms Console would require you to write down numbers of other factions if you wanted to call them.
Every Comms Console would come with a small address book as well as notebook for any important information you might want to remember.
To acquire a number from a faction you would need to ask them for it as they visit, tribesmen would just write it down on sand with a stick and townsmen would give you small pieces of paper.
This new comms console would be good place to hide some Easter eggs, as well as new options , such as communicating with centipedes or even taking control of them if you knew the right code to connect to their internal matrix. Basically change Comms Console to a big, inconvenient , power hungry ,  cell phone .

Enjoy

hmmm

[Mattorious]

I'm gonna have to disagree. The comms console is there to communicate with ease to other entities, and having to memorize the number for every clan and every trader just doesn't suit me. Sorry, but no.

Although, I might be okay if the numbers are just like #411 or #917, simple 3 digit numbers.

[Bozzarr]

I'm gonna have to disagree. The comms console is there to communicate with ease to other entities, and having to memorize the number for every clan and every trader just doesn't suit me. Sorry, but no.

Although, I might be okay if the numbers are just like #411 or #917, simple 3 digit numbers.

You dont have to memorise these numbers , just write it down in your built in address book.

[mrkillit]

How do you contact a tribe that has to write in the sand using an electronic communicator?  You shouldn't even be able to contact these factions with the comms console.  You should have to speak in person.  As for other factions capable of electronic communication, I'm ok with the concept that one of my colonists has added their contact info to the comms console.

It might be neat if you could play with the frequency to try and contact new factions that have radio capability.  Factions that otherwise wouldn't know about you because they are a large distance away.

[milon]

How do you contact a tribe that has to write in the sand using an electronic communicator?  You shouldn't even be able to contact these factions with the comms console.  You should have to speak in person.  As for other factions capable of electronic communication, I'm ok with the concept that one of my colonists has added their contact info to the comms console.

That was my first reaction too, but I think Bozzarr meant that the visiting colonists just don't have electronic communications devices with them, but that they do have them back at their home base.  And I think the reason for "writing it down", rather than automatically registering, is because of the easter eggs. If you have to punch in a number manually, then you can punch in a number you "don't have".   If you're just choosing from a list, then you can't find easter eggs in the comms unit.