The Lightning Rod

[Laserian]

I feel like it should survive more than just 1 hit during the storms.. having to replace the Lightning Rod after just one Strike, kinda gets expensive, maybe we can have it survive 2 or 3 hits, would feel better?

[Lyte]

nah. a lightning rod should be able to survive 4 or 5 lightning storms at the very least no matter how many lightning bolts strike it during those 4 or 5 storms. a lightning rod channels the lightning into the ground. so it shouldn't be damaging the rod in a large degree to destroy it so easily. it should be way more durable than 1 or 3 hits only. otherwise all you will ever do is spend every single copper on making and keeping 30-40 rods out all the time due to how frequent the storms usually occur.

[Team Triss]

There are perks to halve the copper cost and increase durability.

[Anwar]

Developers should strengthen the challenge to players from other aspects, instead of these repeated boring troubles

[m4rcus]

yeah im all in for a hard experience but one hit is kinda wtf. having to get talents for THAT also feels kind of a waste because once you go stone i think it doesnt matter anymore? at least stone doesnt catch fire. so the further you progress the less worth these talents get too.

[AdorableSparrow]

no they should fix that AND make it so if you place the lightning rod on a beach u can use the strikes to make glass. e.e

[Dedline]

I have to respectfully disagree and believe if numerous lightning rods, absorbing more than one strike would remove the feeling of fear to return to your base and prepare to put out fires and prevent a full destruction of your hard work. This then gives more incentive to get the perks for fire extinguisher, etc. I love it the way it is, just my opinion. If I didn't look at weather coming it, feel that hesitation of either return from my long journey away, or rush back to maintain my home would then become boring. Need the fear. Need to make it difficult to get through storms or else this game would be like every other survival game and get boring more quickly.

[Team Triss]

Originally posted by m4rcus:

yeah im all in for a hard experience but one hit is kinda wtf. having to get talents for THAT also feels kind of a waste because once you go stone i think it doesnt matter anymore? at least stone doesnt catch fire. so the further you progress the less worth these talents get too.

Tell me you've never actually built a stone structure without telling me you've never built a stone structure.

[Lyte]

yeah.... hard to be the bringer of bad news m4rcus but i have had lightning strive my stone roof and it DID catch on fire. what didn't help was having support beams catch fire too but the stone roof caught fire too. good tip is if you have a two story(or 3 story) base just stay on top floor and monitor the roof. if there are 2 peeps or more at least have one on each floor. firewhackers ftw!

[Realight]

Originally posted by AdorableAurora:

no they should fix that AND make it so if you place the lightning rod on a beach u can use the strikes to make glass. e.e

No, they should fix that AND make it so you can place it on top of a mountain so you can use the strikes to create magnets!

[m4rcus]

Originally posted by Lyte:

yeah.... hard to be the bringer of bad news m4rcus but i have had lightning strive my stone roof and it DID catch on fire. what didn't help was having support beams catch fire too but the stone roof caught fire too. good tip is if you have a two story(or 3 story) base just stay on top floor and monitor the roof. if there are 2 peeps or more at least have one on each floor. firewhackers ftw!

weird, had a lightning strike my stone roof once and while it was burning for a second it put itself out the next one without me doing anything so i thought that ♥♥♥♥ cannot burn. i mean it makes sense in my book.

but oh well. good to know i guess. anyone here on concrete yet? :<

[xMoDx]

Originally posted by Anwar:

Developers should strengthen the challenge to players from other aspects, instead of these repeated boring troubles

This!
The potential of this game is massiv, I hope it is going in the right direction

[Lyte]

Originally posted by m4rcus:

Originally posted by Lyte:

yeah.... hard to be the bringer of bad news m4rcus but i have had lightning strive my stone roof and it DID catch on fire. what didn't help was having support beams catch fire too but the stone roof caught fire too. good tip is if you have a two story(or 3 story) base just stay on top floor and monitor the roof. if there are 2 peeps or more at least have one on each floor. firewhackers ftw!

weird, had a lightning strike my stone roof once and while it was burning for a second it put itself out the next one without me doing anything so i thought that ♥♥♥♥ cannot burn. i mean it makes sense in my book.

but oh well. good to know i guess. anyone here on concrete yet? :<

i had that same situation where i saw it put itself out once but then in later beta weekends i had a fire on the 2nd floor bc i thought the stone roof + the rain put it out but then bro said we have a fire on second floor. ran up in time to stop it but it literally almost cause a "full base blaze" so idk. maybe something else happened that was a contributing factor. maybe the devs was watching and wanted to be the "almighty smiter" and specifically did something. i only know i saw that lightning hit the roof from outside so i know it did hit a window or anything. i am just saying it may be a very specific situation that might have caused it to happen. i will admit i am one of those with luck that seems pull all the crazy towards me. through several other games(10-15 at the very least) i had become a death god bc i died in so many weird and crazy ways. =o(

[CallMeMae]

Wait a minute, I haven't got the lightning rod yet but you mean to tell me it only survives for one hit. Is this how it is in real life? If they wanted it to be annoying then just have us move the rod somewhere else after each strike or something dumb like that.

[☥ Docdra ☥]

Here's a tip - just saw a streamer build a cabin underwater, run a "pier" from the shore to the cabin with supports underneath, and then he put a fire on top of one of the wood decks...then proceeded to enter the cabin and sleep...underwater. Don't think he's worried too much about the storms now.

[Tantalus]

Originally posted by not_irdemae:

Wait a minute, I haven't got the lightning rod yet but you mean to tell me it only survives for one hit. Is this how it is in real life?

Not normally. Lightning rods and the copper cable that conduct the electricity from the rod to the ground rod are usually thick enough that lightning can't raise their temperature enough to melt them. Other things like high winds during a storm might rip a lightning rod off the roof, though.

As for the game, Icarus's storms are much more destructive than Earth's, so I suppose the idea is that Icarus lightning is powerful enough to melt copper, which could make the lightning rod useless. Still, one strike for 10 copper ingots is a bad deal, in my opinion. Having to waste precious talent points to make lightning rods worthwhile is an even worse deal.