August 22nd, 2023 Livestream
Q&A: Will there ever be an expansion to the Power aspect of the game?
This question has 3 related videos
- August 29th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will there ever be more Power Plants (not green, but alternative energy sources)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBcDsjBgao
- May 9th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Do you want to change electricity transport? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCB4kXebDw
- January 24th, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will there be an alternative for carrying power over long distances other than Train Stations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZglC0zXJz4
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will there ever be an expansion to power accident of the game I love working with power and making power plants it's my favorite part of the game we have gone back and forth a little bit on that topic, for a while ooh the memory search just finished for a while we actually I think it was update five we were originally planning to do a big overhaul of how the power would work in the game and make it more like quote unquote realistic, where you would need to handle like fuse groups better and like handle distance where you're like electric current travels so you would need like Transformers and stuff like that, and we decided not to do it because we felt like when we were thinking about this and we were prototyping the idea it made Power so annoying to set up in the game and I think one aspect for power rag now is that it is you know apart from like handling with water and fluids and stuff like that but that's a different issue is that power is quite like you mentioned like it's power is fun to set up right now in the game so making it more complicated didn't necessarily add more fun to it is what we found I made it more complex and it's something that we've already had to deal with when it comes to the fluid dynamics because, fluid dynamics in our game are very very very very simplified fluid dynamics and even then people find them too complex in a lot of cases I think this comes down to a lot of like visualizing how fluid dynamics work in our game and I think that's sort of where our shortcomings are in that aspects but, you know just making something more complex doesn't automatically mean that it'll be more fun and that's sort of what we realized when we were doing the power overhaul thing so hopefully that answers your question plan to make transformator building Transformers so that's what I talked about before making the we were testing this a little bit and we find found that doing that stuff like making power in the game more complex didn't actually make it more fun so we ever like we decided not to pursue that so there are no plans to make power consumption or anything like that more complex in the game because we felt like it took away a lot of fun in how you set up power at the moment so no plans for Transformers anything like that