March 30th, 2021 Livestream Q&A: What motivated the change for the Geyser node?

March 30th, 2021 Livestream

Q&A: What motivated the change for the Geyser node?

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first league ever what motivated the change for the geiser geisha node thing so the the main thing that motivated us for us was because nobody was using the geothermal stuff so we felt that like and we needed to update it anyway so we and we felt like the the here's the thing with all the power generators in the game we want there to be some form of interesting decision making for all the power generators in the game, so and if you this is this is one of the main reasons why we aren't going to add you know wind turbines and stuff like that unless we figure something out that makes it interesting to use them but we want there to be you know an interesting decision making based on how you use view generators we want there to be some kind of trade-off, and you know we just don't want to give you power that's the thing we just want to you don't want to be like here's power do whatever you want the only exception is like coal because coal is supposed to be the main trade-off for automating fuel it's supposed to be a big step up from from, biomass because biomass is tedious as hell so coal becomes like you know your savior of power needs, in the early game, geothermal is too little power too late in the game the thing is geotherm you can get geothermal before you get coal so it's not really true that's a late game thing you can get it pretty soon pretty early, and yeah the the way we implemented it was just like we wanted to make it interesting we wanted so we implemented as oscillating because you can use the geothermal in in tandem with the power storage just so you get an even flow and we thought that was pretty interesting so that's why we implemented this way and then we're trying it out and see you guys think about it and if people still don't use geothermal then you know we'll make changes to it again like this is a game in early access you you never know