Fire!!!

[timlynx2003]

I've only started playing this game today and have had two fire incidents. They are devastating to my ship and both times it is left full of smoke and unusable. Am i missing something? whats the best method to dealing with fire?

Thank you for any help :)

Great game :)

[f4fhellcat064]

Gas scrubber for the smoke. For fire i usually draft someone and click the piece of equipment on fire.

[RawCode]

you are not expected to have entire ship as single wide open area, keep things that can cause fire behind walls and doors and set vent to OFF for doors.

do not use "venting" as it cause absurd amount of damage and much more destructive then fire.

[timlynx2003]

My first ship is not an single wide open area, there are separate rooms, but i think you got it, the door vents! and i had a few vents between rooms. Closed to door vents and removed the wall vents, hopefully this will be the answer :)

[jhughes]

You can draft people nearby and have the fight the fire (select a group of people.. Draft them.. Right click the fire.. Pick extinguish fire.

[Wantoomany]

Generally fires happen in two main areas. Production facilities and the kitchen. For production facilities, its best to put them all in their own room and separate it from the the rest of the ship with a spacesuit door. If the room is airless, it cant ever have a fire.

For the kitchen and other living areas, its best to have a spacesuit locker near by. Once the temperature in a room gets too hot, your people will be unable to put the fire out without protection. Having a suit locker near by gives them access to that protection and allows them to fight the fire faster.

[Bobucles]

Check the crew stats for their accident rate. Some crew can get accident rates above 20% and end up being a complete disaster.

[Drivol]

Yes, some have traits like clumsy which makes accidents happen often. Also look at the rating of fire on each item when purchasing them. Mix the 1 and 2 fire rating with 3 and 4. Don't just pile them all in one room.

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by Drivol:

Also look at the rating of fire on each item when purchasing them.

The flame symbol is not a fire rating. It simply indicates how much heat a machine will generate. Granted, excessive heat can cause fires, so there is a slight related effect. However that effect can be completely avoided by using thermal regulators properly.

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Generally fires happen in two main areas. Production facilities and the kitchen. For production facilities, its best to put them all in their own room and separate it from the the rest of the ship with a spacesuit door. If the room is airless, it cant ever have a fire.

For the kitchen and other living areas, its best to have a spacesuit locker near by. Once the temperature in a room gets too hot, your people will be unable to put the fire out without protection. Having a suit locker near by gives them access to that protection and allows them to fight the fire faster.

That's the way to do it.

<insert facepalming burned ships to figure that out>

[RawCode]

dont use spacesuit doors, it does not work properly in current implementation, just have "airlock" with two simple doors with venting off and separate oxygen generator and gas scrubber for area to prevent spacers from using suits.

ever if entire area got fire, just waiting some time will solve issue without your interaction

suits have significant penalty on production speed and incident rate, also cause "stamina" damage and decrease mood, as long as there are no methods to "apply" spacer perk or increase "zest" of spacers, suit doors are garbage.

[APhoenixSoaring]

Spacesuit doors do work?

[RawCode]

they cause more harm then good in current implementation

[Mein Schweg]

been playing for 40 hours and i WANT to see a single fire or o2 build up or smoke or anything, a single gas scrubber solves everything : /

[卖女孩的小火柴]

I think the temperature also affects the chance things caught fire. The best way to prevent fire is to seal everything in a single room without oxygen, but the suits slow down your crews' working speed, as well give them bad mood (although moods right now don't seem to impact the game at all)

So my solution was to put two Thermal Regular in my production area and set them to 15°C. Haven't had any fire in production area for 300+ days.

[RawCode]

roll crew of "clunky" spacers and enjoy your kitchen fires every day.

final boolean startFire = Game.random.nextFloat() < 0.1f;
if (startFire) {

as you can see ambient temperature is not "factor" for fire at all