Change temperature to Fahrenheit

[Orikz]

I don't know Celsius makes this game hard to play can we get an option to use both

[Sinius]

They might but till they do essentially 2 temps to be aware of. 0 deg c plants freeze. -40 deg c you start to freeze and take damage unless you have cold protection upgrade in the tech tree.

[Metallos]

Why should the devs add a unit for only 5 countries in the world?

[Sinius]

Originally posted by Metallos:

Why should the devs add a unit for only 5 countries in the world?

DEI Diversity/Equity/Inclusion. Why marginalize the minority?

[Tick]

Usually americans make up a large percentage of most games' playerbase, so having fahrenheit sorta helps the majority of players.
I wonder which scale NASA spaceships and rovers measure in... Probably Kelvins or Calsius

[dyonisth]

I know that SpaceX uses the metric system, as others sciences labs.

Us have introduced the metric system since around 1890.

the metric system is used extensively in some fields such as science, medicine, electronics, the military, automobile production and repair, and international affairs.

[Kaligula]

Yep, but the public still uses Fahrenheit and yards in the US. If you are risen in an environment where you always see these units, it's obvious that you have problems when using metric. I suggest to add an option to the game, so that the temperature and distances are shown in Fahrenheit and yards in addition to the metric units and in brackets. When showing both systems side-by-side, people might get used to it over time.

[dyonisth]

Pyramid games is from Poland, so they naturally uses the metric system. The imperial one is still used in 3 countries in the world so, i'm not sure that the devs will implement the imperial system.

[Metallos]

Originally posted by Tick:

I wonder which scale NASA spaceships and rovers measure in... Probably Kelvins or Calsius

Metric / SI like the rest of the world.
But Lockheed Martin used imperial system in a control software that's why the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 during entry into Mars atmosphere.

[adrianna_PyramidGames]

We'd like our game to be comfortable in use for everyone and this is should be easy to implement, but it would need additionnal work not only from programmists' side but also our QA team since a lot of features rely on temperature calculations.

We have added it to our QoL improvements to-do list though. :)

[ждун]

Actually space engineers in the particular scenario would likely use Kelvin for a lot of reasons. However the game does not go as deep into engineering that it makes a difference. I mean you must not perform calculations with the temperatures.

[Melnmarn]

Originally posted by adrianna_PyramidGames:

We'd like our game to be comfortable in use for everyone and this is should be easy to implement, but it would need additionnal work not only from programmists' side but also our QA team since a lot of features rely on temperature calculations.

We have added it to our QoL improvements to-do list though. :)

You can merely have the "visual representation" be the only change. IE a binary that if player wants imperial, then show them imperial, but continue to calc in metric. So all text boxes with temperature, for example, 'show' the player imperial or metric.