What is a "civil" furnace anyway?

[Precache]

Just wondering what is meant by this. I googled it but it only came back with links to Portia.

[Lady Stark]

It's an upgraded furnace. It allows you to make two different things at once and gives you more options on what you can make. You can give data disks to Qi and he will research it and send the diagram to you in the mail a few days later. Then you can either go into your furnace and upgrade it with the necessary materials or build a new one from scratch.

[Dex]

Originally posted by Lady Stark:

It's an upgraded furnace. It allows you to make two different things at once and gives you more options on what you can make. You can give data disks to Qi and he will research it and send the diagram to you in the mail a few days later. Then you can either go into your furnace and upgrade it with the necessary materials or build a new one from scratch.

I think he meant, why do they call it "civil", what does that represent. Civil usually is connected to 'civilization' it's a bit odd to call a category of machines "civil". Civil Corps? that makes sense, civil-furnace? uh

[RoKnight]

In spanish at least the Licenciatures called CIVIL ingenier are more complete and more administrative than the ingenier in ejecution, soo i always see the civil oriented on administrate and make more things than normal, maybe it make no sense in english

[VectorX]

Probably has something to do with civil engineering, kinda like Myasmata mentioned. Civil engineering is also a thing in english and most languages. I guess the idea might be that normal furnace is for plebs while more advanced ones are something a civil engineer might use since it's more professional?

[Precache]

Maybe it's a brand of tools and it's some sort of product placement?

[Poptart]

Originally posted by Myasmata:

In spanish at least the Licenciatures called CIVIL ingenier are more complete and more administrative than the ingenier in ejecution, soo i always see the civil oriented on administrate and make more things than normal, maybe it make no sense in english

This is what I thought of when I saw it in game.

[Dex]

Maybe in other languages it means differently but in English the term "civil" doesn't imply any sort of improvement or increase in functionality. Civil Engineer is a type of Engineer, not a super Engineer lol.

[JVC]

It probably translates weirdly from Chinese. The idea is that something for civilian purposes (yeah, I know. We all have a ton of furnaces in the back yard) is a lower tier than something for industrial purposes. If Portia is anything to go by, the next level will probably be called "Industrial ..."

[Precache]

Originally posted by JVC:

It probably translates weirdly from Chinese. The idea is that something for civilian purposes (yeah, I know. We all have a ton of furnaces in the back yard) is a lower tier than something for industrial purposes. If Portia is anything to go by, the next level will probably be called "Industrial ..."

Oh yeah, I forgot Portia had "industrial" furnaces. I guess "civil" means "hobby" or something like that.

[Ascawien]

I thought it was just a typo and they meant to call it 'Civic'. That at least would make a little more sense (to me at least).

[Gemji]

my thought was that civil means civilized in this case, because the civil furnace needs materials that you only get out a civilized environment.

[Ihateeverybody]

I thought it was meant more in the sense of everyday Commercial Use. Lets use a coffee maker as an example.

1. Coffee maker. 30-50 dollars in any store. Bare bones will make you a 4,8.12 cups in a single use. Meant to be low use (once or twice a day). This would be your Furnace

2. Restaurant level coffee makers. Meant to be used constantly all day every day. This would be your Civil Furnace.

3. Cafateria type Coffee Makers. High Constant Use, able to put out many cups of cofee as fast as possible and work non stop. This would be your industrial Furnace.

[JVC]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

I thought it was meant more in the sense of everyday Commercial Use. Lets use a coffee maker as an example.

1. Coffee maker. 30-50 dollars in any store. Bare bones will make you a 4,8.12 cups in a single use. Meant to be low use (once or twice a day). This would be your Furnace

2. Restaurant level coffee makers. Meant to be used constantly all day every day. This would be your Civil Furnace.

3. Cafateria type Coffee Makers. High Constant Use, able to put out many cups of cofee as fast as possible and work non stop. This would be your industrial Furnace.

That's a good analogy.