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[Drakale]

This is my current hellhole

I'm impressed you lasted this long honestly, it's very hard to keep up with atmosphere if you don't enclose your generators in a tight space without pollutants. How are you getting enough alga for all those buildings?

Here is my setup, but it's a bit boring to play now. I could expand the amount of people, but i'll probably just wait for some bug fixes.

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[The Scout]

With the standard install, I can get up to the main menu before it crashes when clicking New Game. After deleting SimDLL.dll, I could get halfway through generation before it locked up. Fresh Windows install not that long ago so it's possible I'm missing something simple. http://pastebin.com/XJgQfx55

[ThtblovesDF]

Very nice setup, seems so orderly ; )

Algea was never a issue, I still got 3.5 Tons of it left laying around. Currently heading for cycle 120, now I just want to know how far we can take it. I'm not doing much except tabbing in every now and then and setting harvest priority to 9 and doing another "389 Titles away coal-dig-up"

There might be a bug where my guys can breath in 0.0 Vacum that is created when water splashes all over the place.

[eerr]

But how do you burn coal with no oxygen?

[Aklyon]

But how do you burn coal with no oxygen?

With Science!

[The Scout]

The slow, eventual death of a colony because you can never get enough algae/water is saddening. Waiting to see if they put a machine that uses abyssallite to create water ala condensation. Or using food and water to create algae.

[Neonivek]

The slow, eventual death of a colony because you can never get enough algae/water is saddening. Waiting to see if they put a machine that uses abyssallite to create water ala condensation. Or using food and water to create algae.

Abyssalite drives me crazy in how it should be doing a LOT physics wise

I mean it is one degree above absolute zero.

Yet the way it acts... I think it barely absorbs nor gives off heat. So in that sense it shouldn't get condensation.

[The Scout]

The slow, eventual death of a colony because you can never get enough algae/water is saddening. Waiting to see if they put a machine that uses abyssallite to create water ala condensation. Or using food and water to create algae.

Abyssalite drives me crazy in how it should be doing a LOT physics wise

I mean it is one degree above absolute zero.

Yet the way it acts... I think it barely absorbs nor gives off heat. So in that sense it shouldn't get condensation.

It cools air for me, but it never seems to spread from the tiles right beside it. If we could mod I'd definitely slap on some more options for sustainability.

[forsaken1111]

Anyone else having a lot of problems pumping gas around? I'm trying to set up a semi-sustainable system but the pumps just stop working sometimes. Like it's sucking in gas and storing it as 'bottled oxygen' but never pumping it into the pipe. hm.

[ThtblovesDF]

If you pump clean water into a water cleaner, you just get nothing back, beware of that stuff....

Air intakes usually suck everything away and you end up with a vacum and nothing moves : /

[forsaken1111]

I seem to inevitably run into a point where my base is too large for gas to circulate naturally so I get immobile pockets of carbon dioxide and pockets of max pressure oxygen. I was trying to fix that by pumping all the air through a filter that sends oxy to the top and carbon dioxide to the bottom to be consumed in my algae farm but instead I created a vacuum chamber. x.x

[Criptfeind]

I found gas in general is a little bit borked and that's why I decided to stop playing until a few patches come down the road. Your problem in specific though is caused (to the best of my knowledge) by the fact that an air pump will only ever pump the first gas it pumps, so, if it's sucking in multiple gasses whatever the first thing it sucks in will be what it pumps and the rest gets stored infinitely. This behavior can be reset by loading the save, at that point it'll pump... Well. Something that it has stored, and then set that as the only gas it can pump.

[Drakale]

Didn't mess with fluids too much, but I gave up on a working gas exchange system. As Criptfeind mentioned, they don't do mixed gases correctly and you run into all sort of issues with differential pressures. Even something simple like trying to cool a room with a closed system connected to an external cooler refuse to work as it should. Hydrogen generator actually work better if you just pump directly into it rather than isolating the hydrogen first. Hoping they will improve it soon. Also hydrogen/oxygen mixes should be a major hazard.

[The Scout]

Didn't mess with fluids too much, but I gave up on a working gas exchange system. As Criptfeind mentioned, they don't do mixed gases correctly and you run into all sort of issues with differential pressures. Even something simple like trying to cool a room with a closed system connected to an external cooler refuse to work as it should. Hydrogen generator actually work better if you just pump directly into it rather than isolating the hydrogen first. Hoping they will improve it soon. Also hydrogen/oxygen mixes should be a major hazard.

Does the hydrogen generator produce water as a byproduct?

[Criptfeind]

No.

It doesn't even produce energy as a byproduct.

(I kid, sorta, I've not been able to get the fucking things to actually work for any length of time)