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I do see one issue with the volatile fusion reactor suggestion. In Factorio, on maps that are big enough, there's no reason why you couldn't build your fusion reactor in an isolated area of the map surrounded by defenses with electric poles connecting it to your base. And since it's clean it wouldn't attract many enemies, so it wouldn't require even a railroad connection for maintenance probably, so now it presents no danger to your main base base. So there needs to be some kind of reason to keep it within your main base, I think.

Quote from: umiman on August 22, 2017, 04:15:13 pm

It was always fun to watch someone build his super hyper efficient resource generation centre, taking him an hour and a half of turtling to do... only for you to come in with 20 strat bombers and blow the whole thing up after sniping a single corner.

Heh, yeah, that's not how you play SupCom.

Well, I can think of a couple reasons. For one thing, it could be handwaved that something about fusion power attracts/angers the aliens. Radiation, vibrations, magnetic fields, whatever. Perhaps the attacks are much more powerful as long as your fusion plant is up and running.

A second possible reason could be that the fusion generator provides power in a very large radius but cannot transfer power through anything but heavy-duty lines. Park it in the middle of your base and you no longer need to worry about throwing power poles down everywhere, which can open up room for further optimization of your industry. On the other hand, it also puts your base at greatest risk of explosions.

I'm sure someone more familiar with Factorio than I could come up with something else.

Quote from: umiman on August 01, 2017, 10:29:36 pm

I don't understand why there are portable fusion reactors for your power armour but no fusion power for your base. How does that make any sense?

I guess they wanted base power to have some sort of sacrifice.  Either you have steam that pollutes like hell, or you have solar that's clean but you need a billon of them and they take up all of the space everywhere.  Fusion would have neither of those problems.

I can think of one very simple (and !FUN!) way to give fusion a drawback: make it a risk to your entire complex. Fusion should be quite safe and efficient normally, but if the alien hordes break through and wreck your fusion generator it should go critical in a very big way. I'm talking a couple square miles of destroyed buildings and infrastructure. Sure, that particular attack wave will probably perish as a result, but chances are you'll lose most of your factory unless you positioned your fusion generator far away from your bases.

Sam to (13,12) and bard Bert and Esther.

((I thought that was only for ranged attacks. Whoops.))

Move 1 square north, then Power Attack.

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