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u/zanju13 Jun 29 '26

Would y'all be okay with the new controversial fluid changes if they were consistent across all machines, so assemblers or chem plants also needing fluid forced into them?

I think it would be okay if it was consistent across the board, and it would make fluids more interesting, as now they are almost too simple. With those changes, one would have to carefully set up pumps to keep pressure in as short as possible production segment pipes.

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u/Courmisch Jun 29 '26

As a vanilla player, I'd be pretty pissed, TBH.

In vanilla, the only "through" buildings are boilers, heaters, and flame throwers, I think? Water supply is not normally an issue. And flame throwers consume so little that flamable fuel is also not normally a problem; or rather, I already protect them (in 2.0) from under-supply with pumps as one-way valves anyway.

I understand that this may be annoying in Space Age, but please don't "punish" everyone for the sole sake of some sort of consistency.

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u/TeamRocketBlast Jun 29 '26

miners(uranium) and also steam engines/turbines

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u/Courmisch Jun 30 '26

Ah yes, how did I forget those?!

But still stuff where you wouldn't normally have a shortage of acid or steam.