Atomic bomb "too big" to fit in a rocket? How?

[Sum Ting Wong]

I can carry hundreds of them in stacks of 10 on my person and fire them rapidly from a man-portable rocket launcher. How are these "too big" to fit in an orbital rocket payload? If I can fit 10 artillery shells or 5 whole artillery cannons, I can fit these.

And don't say "it's too broken", I can still ship all the components and assemble them on my planet of choice without even needing an assembling machine. So long as that's possible, all it does it slows down the end result and makes it annoying from a gameplay perspective. Please just enable them to be shipped. The lifeforms of this solar system needs some atomic justice handed out.

[Scipione]

they already stated that the rocket payloads are not meant to be realistic (which would be absurd in a game where you can pack hundrets of assemblers in your pocket anyway), but they based those on balancing

[Professor H. Farnsworth]

Because you're not supposed to ship atomic justice on a rocket.

Send the prereqs and make it somewhere else tho. Can't imagine it's very useful on the long daddy biters tho..

[Simon]

How am I supposed to deliver controlled democracy now??

[Simon]

Originally posted by Scipione:

they already stated that the rocket payloads are not meant to be realistic (which would be absurd in a game where you can pack hundrets of assemblers in your pocket anyway), but they based those on balancing

It's a legal limit set by the intergalactic engineering counsel.

[JustSmile]

Make up any explanation that also fits being able to carry 10 thousand refineries in your pockets.

[Scipione]

Originally posted by Simon:

How am I supposed to deliver controlled democracy now??

wrong game, go play helldivers :P

if you need some "artifical reasoning" try that: to dangerous to be rocketshipped in an assembled state, therefore need to ship the parts.
there you go

[Sum Ting Wong]

Originally posted by Scipione:

Originally posted by Simon:

How am I supposed to deliver controlled democracy now??

wrong game, go play helldivers :P

if you need some "artifical reasoning" try that: to dangerous to be rocketshipped in an assembled state, therefore need to ship the parts.
there you go

I assure you, shipping uncontained U-385 would be far more dangerous.

Either way, finding out beating these worms requires an artificially forced situation of using specific, low tier weapons and ammunition that the player has moved beyond by the time they are ready to travel to another world is the kind of mechanic in games I have always detested.

[slothrop]

Originally posted by Sum Ting Wong:

Originally posted by Scipione:

wrong game, go play helldivers :P

if you need some "artifical reasoning" try that: to dangerous to be rocketshipped in an assembled state, therefore need to ship the parts.
there you go

I assure you, shipping uncontained U-385 would be far more dangerous.

Either way, finding out beating these worms requires an artificially forced situation of using specific, low tier weapons and ammunition that the player has moved beyond by the time they are ready to travel to another world is the kind of mechanic in games I have always detested.

Beating the worms does not require that. I specifically imported uranium products to deal with them. You just have to scale to slightly higher shipments to do it quickly, but that is easy too. A single rocket of uranium cannon shells will kill a few small worms on its own btw.

[Sum Ting Wong]

Originally posted by slothrop:

Originally posted by Sum Ting Wong:

I assure you, shipping uncontained U-385 would be far more dangerous.

Either way, finding out beating these worms requires an artificially forced situation of using specific, low tier weapons and ammunition that the player has moved beyond by the time they are ready to travel to another world is the kind of mechanic in games I have always detested.

Beating the worms does not require that. I specifically imported uranium products to deal with them. You just have to scale to slightly higher shipments to do it quickly, but that is easy too. A single rocket of uranium cannon shells will kill a few small worms on its own btw.

... Why would you say something is "not required" and then immediately suggest the very thing you said is not required?

[slothrop]

Originally posted by Sum Ting Wong:

Originally posted by slothrop:

Beating the worms does not require that. I specifically imported uranium products to deal with them. You just have to scale to slightly higher shipments to do it quickly, but that is easy too. A single rocket of uranium cannon shells will kill a few small worms on its own btw.

... Why would you say something is "not required" and then immediately suggest the very thing you said is not required?

can you explain how importing the final tier of ammo available before you go to volcanus is suggesting using low tier weapons. it is the exact opposite of what you said.

[Sum Ting Wong]

Originally posted by slothrop:

Originally posted by Sum Ting Wong:

... Why would you say something is "not required" and then immediately suggest the very thing you said is not required?

can you explain how importing the final tier of ammo available before you go to volcanus is suggesting using low tier weapons. it is the exact opposite of what you said.

You quoted a post of mine almost exclusively discussing the use of lower tier ammunition. So apologies if I misunderstood, I assumed you were referring exclusively to the contents of the quoted post rather than the original topic.

Either way, as a side note for the topic as a whole, I did import the raw materials for several atomic bombs. One shot, instant kill. Very satisfying and worthwhile.

[Chindraba]

The Ministry of Isotopes in cooperation with the Intergalactic Guild of Engineers has promulgated the regulation of atomic material and products on space-going vessels.

Originally posted by M.I. Reg. Cat 1, ch 2: Restricted shipments:

§ 1.2.5 In all cases of planet to space transport, the following items are prohibited:
...
§ 1.2.5.e Explosive nuclear devices, including:
§ 1.2.5.e.i atomic weapons
§ 1.2.5.e.ii atomic bombs
§ 1.2.5.e.iii any device classified as a WMD with an active element involving atomic energy

[Mac]

Originally posted by JustSmile:

Make up any explanation that also fits being able to carry 10 thousand refineries in your pockets.

They aren't actually in your pocket, your carry weight is just an list of materials, using that list you know you have the resources to make x-amount of things, such as belts, you have zero belts in your inventory, but your craft window knows how many belt you can make, based on the list of materials inside your pocket.

When you build a building, you're telling the game to move those objects from point a to point b to build it, using resource management, this part is skipped for gameplay consistancy otherwise the game would be slow as tits like it is in real life lol.

Thats my explanation atleast :P

Take the nuclear material, for instance, your list is just a list, the material is actual there if you put it inside the space ship, your pocket list says 100 tons, but your rocket says 1 ton, it doesn't matter how many tons you write down on your pocket list, the space ship 1 ton doesn't change xD

[Chindraba]

Except that the rules for riding the rocket - pockets must be empty - suggests that the inventory in you pockets (inventory slots) is actually carried.

Really, the only 'explanation' I rely upon is "so said WUBE". The more I attempt to craft explanations which form a coherent fabric of reason the more it actually breaks my immersion. Rather, by just accepting, and operating, the facts and rules as presented, I can become one with the engineer and remake the world to fit my aims.

Knowing why the sky is purple does not change how blue it looks to me. 'Reality' is the interpretation of perception. Altered perception leads to altered reality.

[Sum Ting Wong]

Originally posted by Chindraba:

The Ministry of Isotopes in cooperation with the Intergalactic Guild of Engineers has promulgated the regulation of atomic material and products on space-going vessels.

Originally posted by M.I. Reg. Cat 1, ch 2: Restricted shipments:

§ 1.2.5 In all cases of planet to space transport, the following items are prohibited:
...
§ 1.2.5.e Explosive nuclear devices, including:
§ 1.2.5.e.i atomic weapons
§ 1.2.5.e.ii atomic bombs
§ 1.2.5.e.iii any device classified as a WMD with an active element involving atomic energy

HERESY! The God-Emperor's justice must be meted out to the wretched Xenos!