Why do I get radiation sickness?

[Andrew, King of the Britons]

I'd have assumed you'd get it if you accidentally removed the casing on the atomic pile while it's on, but I keep getting it, even with the pile off and just trying to get the components to repair them.

[Unglued Bracelet]

You can get it if the pile gets too hot even with shielding in place, especially if the shielding is somewhat damaged. My guess is that a certain component is damaged or missing entirely from your pile. I can go further into detail if you can't figure it out.

[Andrew, King of the Britons]

I'm working on the 30 minute survival, so I'm assuming it's just the three components it needs that it already comes with. I guess I just need to try and stop it from being damaged.

[Manny_Lectro]

Originally posted by Andrew, King of the Britons:

I'd have assumed you'd get it if you accidentally removed the casing on the atomic pile while it's on, but I keep getting it, even with the pile off and just trying to get the components to repair them.

The hotter the pile, the more radiation it produces. At some point it can get too high for even the shields to protect you. You need to make sure temperature stays under control!

[Andrew, King of the Britons]

I understand a lot better now, I didn't notice the red zone on the temperature indicator :)

Thanks guys.

[Simoyd]

Originally posted by Manny_Lectro:

Originally posted by Andrew, King of the Britons:

I'd have assumed you'd get it if you accidentally removed the casing on the atomic pile while it's on, but I keep getting it, even with the pile off and just trying to get the components to repair them.

The hotter the pile, the more radiation it produces. At some point it can get too high for even the shields to protect you. You need to make sure temperature stays under control!

I did the 30 minute one twice. reactor didn't go into the red either time. I never removed the shielding either time. Game gives me sickness and kills me right before I win. What other ways can you get sickness? What am I doing wrong. playing half an hour to have the game auto-kill me isn't super fun. Is there any way to cure sickness?

[Manny_Lectro]

Radiations can only happen if the reactor is very hot or if shields are missing. It might be a bug but you are the first one to report it so I would tend to say that pile temperature must have been rising at some point and you didn't notice it.
Do you spend a lot of time charging batteries? Leaving batteries for a long time on the battery fast charger will definitely raise the temperature of the pile and leave you exposed to radiation.

[Zarthol]

This has to be a bug. I'm having the exact same problem in 20m. I checked and my atomic pile temp was no where near the red, in fact it was at the bottom.

The pile also had both shields on it, I even took them off and put them back on, no smoke coming off it or anything.

I started throwing up after the electrical storm. I even tried powering off the generator entirely and I still was throwing up.

[DBladedPantz]

@Zarthol

Do you have a working processor on the power station? If its missing or damaged the system has a hard time regulating and can over/under perform - if over performing it can cause all kinds of sparks throughout subsystems and/or increase the overall pile temperature and making the pod incredibly warm.

Second thought coming to mind are the radiation shields - taking them off can expose you to radiation directly from a powered on atomic pile, regardless of the heat/power its generating. I've never found the pile damaged enough to need to repair it at the repair station so perhaps you're seeing something I've not yet experienced.

[Kube008]

Originally posted by Simoyd:

Originally posted by Manny_Lectro:

The hotter the pile, the more radiation it produces. At some point it can get too high for even the shields to protect you. You need to make sure temperature stays under control!

I did the 30 minute one twice. reactor didn't go into the red either time. I never removed the shielding either time. Game gives me sickness and kills me right before I win. What other ways can you get sickness? What am I doing wrong. playing half an hour to have the game auto-kill me isn't super fun. Is there any way to cure sickness?

I had the same problem now. less than 2 min on the clock and ... dead

my reactior was at maximum on 60% of the skala. Red area starts at 80% or something.
Was a bit disappointed.

[SNJ]

Originally posted by Zarthol:

The pile also had both shields on it, I even took them off and put them back on, no smoke coming off it or anything.

uhm..

[SNJ]

wait now I also got radiation sickness while I never even lowered the Pile thingy, I had not charged a single battery and the red and blue lines of both the Pile temperature and Amperage were on the same spot! So I really don't know how i could've gotten radation sickness..

only thing I can image is that some sort of asteroid damage caused this.. but it's not like the pile processors were off beacuse then I would see the red and blue line misalign, right?

[acdcdave1387]

Originally posted by Manny_Lectro:

Originally posted by Andrew, King of the Britons:

I'd have assumed you'd get it if you accidentally removed the casing on the atomic pile while it's on, but I keep getting it, even with the pile off and just trying to get the components to repair them.

The hotter the pile, the more radiation it produces. At some point it can get too high for even the shields to protect you. You need to make sure temperature stays under control!

What I don't understand is that I get radiation sickness for seemingly no reason at all. I brought the pile down once to look at the monitor and immediately closed it. I never once had any alerts after that with the pile and never opened it again, never had overheating issues, survived about 39 mins and then died of radiation sickness somehow. How could that happen if nothing was wrong?

[Raptor]

I'm seeing a similar issue - radiation is happening (white dots on the screen) but the pile temperature is no where near the red zone. It looks like once the ammeter is at 60% (pile temperature just above the third black line) you start getting irradiated - is this a bug?

If you're going to get irradiated at the third black line, what does the red zone on the pile temperature gauge represent?

To easily reproduce this, go into sandbox on the Medusa and put a battery into the charger and watch the pile temperature - once it passes the third black line you'll start seeing white dots which is no where near the red zone.

[Sir Prometeus]

I noticed this problem in the 30min survival because I always tried to keep every battery recharged.

It's better to keep the reactor at the normal temperature than having your batteries rechaged, except the batter on the coms to be rescued. There are ways to save energy while doing this, and I guess it's even recommended

[Raptor]

You won't get irradiated as long as the pile temperature on the wall panel doesn't go over the third black line - so you can charge until it's close to that and then stop charging. Currently going over the third black line will cause radiation.