Thermal use - expanding gas

[LittleEltonJohn]

I cant figure out how to use the thermal upgrade. I encircled the gas pocket with pipe, then...what? I closed off all the valves, clicked on everything...something is missing

[Gamious]

Hi,
what's missing is the visual feedback. We didn't have time to put that in the game before the last update.

You should encircle a pocket of Gas completely, then close off all the joints. The pipes will turn red and the Gas will start growing. The grow effect is very small right now, so keep an eye on it.
Gas will grow quicker if pipes are closer.

[Tom Jang Lemke]

But what does it actually do?

[Gamious]

Originally posted by Unikrn.com - Tom:

But what does it actually do?

In Area 4 the Gas pockets are smaller than Area 3. You can expand the Gas and increase the amount. This will help you reach higher prices for your oil. But it's not easy.

[Steev]

How close do the pipes actually have to be to the gas pocket? I ran into a situation where I surrounded a pocket, caused it to expand, but then couldn't actually extract the gas because any length of pipe I drew from the circle of pipes was either too short to build or it would automatically connect to another segment of the circle.

I do like the idea, but I think it needs a little more work.

By the way, this is my first post about the game. Picked it up during the winter Steam sale after it showed up in my discovery queue, which is something I didn't think would happen. I thought I'd just be ignoring every game that showed up in there as I tried to get more holiday cards, but something about Turmoil hooked me.

I genuinely enjoy the game so far!

[LittleEltonJohn]

thanks got it working!

[Gamious]

Originally posted by Steev:

How close do the pipes actually have to be to the gas pocket? I ran into a situation where I surrounded a pocket, caused it to expand, but then couldn't actually extract the gas because any length of pipe I drew from the circle of pipes was either too short to build or it would automatically connect to another segment of the circle.

I do like the idea, but I think it needs a little more work.

By the way, this is my first post about the game. Picked it up during the winter Steam sale after it showed up in my discovery queue, which is something I didn't think would happen. I thought I'd just be ignoring every game that showed up in there as I tried to get more holiday cards, but something about Turmoil hooked me.

I genuinely enjoy the game so far!

Glad to hear it!

We do need to improve on this still, it's quite a new feature. We know there are issue with very short pipes and 'snapping' to other ends. We are working on a fix for that. Your circle was very small I'm guessing. You should build a little bit bigger and be able to pipe into the pocket.

[Gamious]

Originally posted by LittleEltonJohn:

thanks got it working!

Great!

[Steev]

Originally posted by Gamious:

Originally posted by Steev:

How close do the pipes actually have to be to the gas pocket? I ran into a situation where I surrounded a pocket, caused it to expand, but then couldn't actually extract the gas because any length of pipe I drew from the circle of pipes was either too short to build or it would automatically connect to another segment of the circle.

I do like the idea, but I think it needs a little more work.

By the way, this is my first post about the game. Picked it up during the winter Steam sale after it showed up in my discovery queue, which is something I didn't think would happen. I thought I'd just be ignoring every game that showed up in there as I tried to get more holiday cards, but something about Turmoil hooked me.

I genuinely enjoy the game so far!

Glad to hear it!

We do need to improve on this still, it's quite a new feature. We know there are issue with very short pipes and 'snapping' to other ends. We are working on a fix for that. Your circle was very small I'm guessing. You should build a little bit bigger and be able to pipe into the pocket.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing the improvements.

Not sure if it's ever been brought up here (it probably has), but perhaps the ability to destroy a segment of pipe for a fee would be a nice feature in the game? Not sure if that's possible or if it'd be too complicated for what you already have in place, of course.

[Gamious]

Originally posted by Steev:

Not sure if it's ever been brought up here (it probably has), but perhaps the ability to destroy a segment of pipe for a fee would be a nice feature in the game? Not sure if that's possible or if it'd be too complicated for what you already have in place, of course.

Destroying pipes has not been brought up yet. It's not something that we have in place and not easily implemented: what happens when you destroy the mid section of a pipe that's flowing with oil? Spillage underground?

We have talked and tested selling buildings above ground. Because players sometimes place buildings suboptimal. We tried it, but wasn't fun because players (in-house) would just try to end a few days earlier and sell off everything. We felt that player should be stuck with their placing decisions, good or bad, that makes the decisions more weighted and valuable.
The same probably goes for Pipes. You have to live with your decisions. :)

[Steev]

Originally posted by Gamious:

Originally posted by Steev:

Not sure if it's ever been brought up here (it probably has), but perhaps the ability to destroy a segment of pipe for a fee would be a nice feature in the game? Not sure if that's possible or if it'd be too complicated for what you already have in place, of course.

Destroying pipes has not been brought up yet. It's not something that we have in place and not easily implemented: what happens when you destroy the mid section of a pipe that's flowing with oil? Spillage underground?

We have talked and tested selling buildings above ground. Because players sometimes place buildings suboptimal. We tried it, but wasn't fun because players (in-house) would just try to end a few days earlier and sell off everything. We felt that player should be stuck with their placing decisions, good or bad, that makes the decisions more weighted and valuable.
The same probably goes for Pipes. You have to live with your decisions. :)

Understandable! It might be a good idea for a follow up game, I suppose. I was just frustrated when I made my circle of pipes too narrow to get to the gas. :)

[Rugged Malone]

Originally posted by Gamious Dev:

Destroying pipes has not been brought up yet. It's not something that we have in place and not easily implemented: what happens when you destroy the mid section of a pipe that's flowing with oil? Spillage underground?

One solution would be to only permit destroying open sections of pipe from the end, and closed sections of pipe where removing the piece doesn't result in a break from the rig.

So, you could always remove a pipe that goes nowhere, but you could only remove an inner section if both pipes it was connected to would still be connected to a rig.

[Storm0267]

well it could be a cost to destroy stuff even surface buildings.

[_Will]

Sorry for zombie thread, but you could always add a hotkey to disable snapping of pipes