The road to T4.

[DjArcas]

These didn't make it in yet!

• Acid Washer; 1 ore in, 2 out, requires Chlorine, multiblock, allows 3 in parallel? Creates Enriched <X> Ore which Blast Furnaces understand.
  
• MK3 'larger build gun' with toggleable 3x3 mode (!) (build gun in, build mode isn't)
  
• Upgraded Jetpack that works in the CC
  
• Lithium Bombs (low pri)
  
• Hide in-flight DropPods when <100 underground (or so)

The grappling hook will either not work, or will have a cooldown when fired from, or, landing in, -200 to -280, without the MK3.

Server-related plans (these are lower priority than T4 work)

• /history on server to show players joined/left?
  
• player blasters predicated off of server, not hosting!
  
• spawn glowstick (position + vel?)
  
• player blaster (position + vel?)
  
• other people's corpses (position + forward)
  
• ranks
  
• add in admin.xml, using same code as black/white list; requires physical access to the server folder (?)

Complete

• Increase defence requirement for T4 mats substantially (unsure)
  
• Larger Suit Battery
  
• Care Package.
  
  
• Added Chromed, Magnetic and Hiemal blocks, assemblers and recipes.
  
• All CryoDefences offline if CPH destroyed
  
• Calmers offline when C5 is active.
  
• C5 can only be placed in the cold cavern.
  
• C5 cannot be dug up under any circumstances.
  
• C5 will warn you about the above restriction during placement
  
• Achievements, achievements, achievements.
  
• Particle Filters to be the correct effect
  
• Trencher Head MK2
  
• Trencher Head MK3
  
• Magma Bore craftable
  
• Magma Bore needs to stop if infected with CryoPlasm.
  
• Change CryoBombs to Sulphur (they're awesome, they need to be made more difficult)
  
• Flatland for MagmaBore to full depth
  
• Magma Bore rewind to parked after full depth
  
• MagmaBore pulls lava (visually) up from the MagmaCavern. You can connect a pipe to that, and then across to the CyroPlasm Inferno
  
• Fix tourcart size + doors
  
• CryoPlasm neutraliser; requires 30 mins of uninterrupted LoS to the hive core? (w/30s c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker)
  
• Tags Core as active when neutralising, so you can't time it when the Core is asleep.
  
• Requires heavily focussed defences on this creep spawner. This is currently nearly impossible.
  
• Freezon Injector; this allows you to super-cool (and hence super-charge) an attached machine. Initial use is to allow the Lancers to work 4x quicker, giving a tiny chance you might be able to cap off a Cryo Spawner. A Lancer will need 1 Freezon per 30s, giving a total of 40 blocks destroyed in that time (compared to 10 in 30s without supercharging)
  
• Added a T4 (ie orange) End Of Line skin.
  
• Check FALCOR bomber bomb usage. Seems to be incredibly high!

[Flexible Games]

Just how many hours are you targeting for start-to-finish expansion? Seems like you are trying for another 100-200 hours.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by simtropbuggi:

Just how many hours are you targeting for start-to-finish expansion? Seems like you are trying for another 100-200 hours.

"40" was the posted figure, assuming 40 hours of play, not just idling whilst things work for you. One thing I haven't been in this expansive, is idling!

I suspect we're looking at more like 100-200 on Casual, however; setting up an effective CryoPlasm defence is time-consuming, resource-hungry, and LOADS OF FUN.

[steveman0]

Um is the acid washer going to be a one time process? Or could you feed the same ore in over and over to keep multiplying it if you have the chlorine?

[whiter2501]

Don't remove grapple in caves, some of them in my world when I am digging my shafts will kill me if I fall and can't grapple the ceiling to the nearest wall.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by steveman0:

Um is the acid washer going to be a one time process? Or could you feed the same ore in over and over to keep multiplying it if you have the chlorine?

I haven't worked that out quite yet. I need to work out a way to do this. There may just be a richer type of ore that Blast Furnaces understand.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by whiter2501:

Don't remove grapple in caves, some of them in my world when I am digging my shafts will kill me if I fall and can't grapple the ceiling to the nearest wall.

Sympathy level : really quite low.

[SpeedDaemon]

IMO nerfing the grapple would just increase time spent walking... not really a fun way to increase difficulty. Sure, it might encourage more automation, but it's the early game that would really suffer, since you can't afford too much automation then.

I could potentially see not having it work in the cold caverns until the suit heater progression point. Currently it can be abused to bypass the caverns before then.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by SpeedDaemon:

IMO nerfing the grapple would just increase time spent walking...

Are you spending that much time walking around the Cold Caverns?

[SpeedDaemon]

Originally posted by DjArcas:

Originally posted by SpeedDaemon:

IMO nerfing the grapple would just increase time spent walking...

Are you spending that much time walking around the Cold Caverns?

That was a more general comment. You mentioned three tiers of grapple in the OP, which seemed to imply more restrictions/gating than just not working at CC and below at first.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by SpeedDaemon:

Originally posted by DjArcas:

Are you spending that much time walking around the Cold Caverns?

That was a more general comment. You mentioned three tiers of grapple in the OP, which seemed to imply more restrictions/gating than just not working at CC and below at first.

There are already 2 tiers to the grappling hook, this just disallows usage/rapid usage within the later areas. It also means the CryoPlasm is very, very dangerous, rather than just something you grapple over and ignore.

[Dodgeball]

So does this mean we get lifts that work in MP past 64 blocks, if you're disabling our primary ascent/descent tool?

[inkelyad]

Originally posted by SpeedDaemon:

Sure, it might encourage more automation, but it's the early game that would really suffer, since you can't afford too much automation then.

Solution: you have the grappling hook at start of a game. And then it slowly breaks down.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by Dodgeball:

So does this mean we get lifts that work in MP past 64 blocks, if you're disabling our primary ascent/descent tool?

JUST TO RE-ITERATE AS APPARENTLY I WASN'T CLEAR ENOUGH. THERE IS AN APPROXIMATE *EIGHTY* METRE RANGE OF DANGEROUS, 250 METRES BELOW THE START. RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE IGNORING IT. THIS WILL BE CHANGING. IF YOU FEEL THIS WILL ADVERSELY AFFECT YOU, I SUGGEST YOU START WITH ELEVATORS AND MOVE ON TO TELEPORTERS AND THEN STAIRCASES AND MINECARTS.

You have like 3 weeks to get around this. It isn't going to affect anyone anywhere NEAR as much as the whining and complaining is ALREADY making out.

[DjArcas]

Note : It's been about 2 years since I started saying 'stop hellevating', and I've not ever stopped saying it.

[Shax de Rjack]

awesome ащще нормэ, ящитаю ща лучшая из подобных игор (untranslatable)