Air Conditioner doesnt work? @Devs?

[Alex06114]

So finally i started to run generator and placed air condinioner.


If its freezing outside and it says cold inside my house little house even if its on or off



Did anyone try it?

[Troa Barton]

The air conditioner needs a huge buff, it's worthless..

[Quxudais]

Originally posted by Troa Barton:

The air conditioner needs a huge buff, it's worthless..

Yep. I built one to help someone new deal with the cold mountain temperatures at my place and it does virtually nothing. two foundation radius with a fast drop off and only +100 buff at best to boot.

I'm not sure why this thing has gone so ignored for so long, i guess maybe people just don't really need them by the time they can actually build them, but they are horrible. Given the materials involved and the need for electicity it should be providing +300 minimum over a large area imo. maybe make it only provide the best buff if its inside (currently it makes no difference if its inside or outside). If the area you place it in has the "shelter" buff, it should provide extra heating or cooling.

Or maybe scrap the + stat buff all together and just have it multiply the benefit of the "shelter" buff.

Originally posted by Damian0216:

Think of the ac as a Wal-Mart band fan/heater. You can use it in a cubicle and be warm or cool off. But won't do much for a bigger room.

Yes they do work. No it's not a huge area of effect

If they were cheap to make, didnt need electricity or were smaller/wall mountable. Maybe that argument would work. as it stands you are entirely better off having a camp fire with spark powder in it. It's cost is not worth its effect even remotely - and its effect certainly does not justify it's high level requirement to even make it.

[Maltheus]

They need an ini setting to turn off temperature effects all together, until they're willing to address these kinds of balance issues.

[Lilkinsly]

I really don't understand why people have problems with the AC units.
-Space isn't an issue if you place them smart. I put catwalks at head level making shelves and place them in sets of 2 together.
-The resources involved are a one time investment, no need to worry about if your campfire or whatever has fuel.
- Space them around your house / base. First make sure your doors are closed, because this makes a difference as well. Open your inventory and check your hot and cold resistances. Walk a few steps away then open inventory again. Once the effects of the AC are about halved, you now know where you need to place another AC. Honestly though, putting 2 near doors and near areas where you hang out like smithy or fabricator do the trick.

While others freeze and hunker around campfires and torches, I simply close my doors with my keypad and go on with whatever I am doing with no issues.

[Belnick]

yes then I would need to build about 200 ac, you think that is ok resource management ?
not to mention if you build stuff above your head all animals will rubberband

[Lilkinsly]

Nobody is saying your entire base needs AC coverage. Hell my compound would need like 5k AC's. You just need them in places where people congregate and work as well as easy places for people to find if you need them.

[Belnick]

well my 60 dinos in my base is not all in the same place, I ofc have a homebase inside the homebase inside the base ofc, like a safe room, but annoying to freeze when walking out to feed the animals when you have full cover around you

[Ichabod]

Originally posted by WhiteTree:

Has anyone tried building 2 AC's and putting them next to each other to see if it gives you 100 instead of 50?

^^ this?

[cRush]

Temperature in this game is just a complete cluster ♥♥♥♥. It's the most awful implementation I've ever seen in a game. It's like they just pull random values out of the air. Take 2 steps, and the temperature drops 60 degrees.

Ever heard of Perlin Noise or Simplex Noise? Yeah. I know you have developers. Guess what. You can use that for heat maps too. SHOCKING.

[Lilkinsly]

Originally posted by Ichabod:

Originally posted by WhiteTree:

Has anyone tried building 2 AC's and putting them next to each other to see if it gives you 100 instead of 50?

^^ this?

You get double protection from having 2 near you. Think it is 75 each.

[Lilkinsly]

Originally posted by cRush:

Temperature in this game is just a complete cluster ♥♥♥♥. It's the most awful implementation I've ever seen in a game. It's like they just pull random values out of the air. Take 2 steps, and the temperature drops 60 degrees.

Ever heard of Perlin Noise or Simplex Noise? Yeah. I know you have developers. Guess what. You can use that for heat maps too. SHOCKING.

I don't "think" the temperature is based upon where you are. For example, when the sky goes orange, it is super hot out. I talk to people in teamspeak all over the island and we all get the exact same temperature outside.

[Greystar]

Originally posted by Vohjiin:

There is a difference between Central Air which both heats and cools and the normal air conditioners (window units) that really just cool but there are ones that heat. So again some are use to growing up with central air and not the window units so can't fault them for that.


I thought the devs had mentioned that late tier stuff was going to start being balanced when it comes to tech things and machines a little later on when they finish up the first more primal tiers.

Central Air requires being hooked into your furnace and duct work, so the airconditioner itself is NOT heating it's still using your furnace. The Air "Conditioning" Unit is just for cooling (IRL).

[Grimfeather]

You could also make an industrial BBQ. Throw some gas in it and fire it up. Those things really warm up a room.

[therealAST]

Ok the devs specifically say that the ac unit works both ways. However in many areas of the map the ac unit does nothing. We live in Grand Hills, below volcano and yet with 10 ac units in our dino pen the temperature inside remains the same as the temp outdoors. -3 outside at night -3 inside. 8 outside during day, 8 inside. And no this is not within 10 blocks. These are temp checks from nearly 40 blocks away. Address the ac unit failure or negate temp fluxuation until fixed.

[[IRA] Aurora]

This works just fine for me. I can literally AFK and leave my eggs.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/xxauroraxx184/screenshots/

Thats 3 ACs and 4 standing torches.