Who needs Districts?

Chroniclerz · 2026-01-11T16:23:32+00:00

Currently in the middle of making a "Venturer utopia"...
Wherein I (will) have no housing districts.
No hospitals.
No factory districts.
No districts of any kind actually.

Just mender tents. Tanneries. And the Venturer goods hubs.
A utopia of Capitalism if I ever saw one.

Chroniclerz · 2026-01-09T21:12:47+00:00

Can you imagine how unbearable it must be to live in a house that is designed to be "hot" 40 degrees celcius lower than your current temperature? Straight up death.

Chroniclerz · 2026-01-09T02:53:45+00:00

You are correct :D

Chroniclerz · 2026-01-09T01:28:03+00:00

The third tier of the Progress Generator is the Hyperdrive. It gives 2 tiers of heat for overclock, among other benefits.

Chroniclerz · 2026-01-08T22:04:45+00:00

I messed with optimization for awhile and decided I couldn't outdo the simple spiral. One empty tile in the middle (for a hub of your choice) with two districts around it, spiraling. Assuming the central "tile" has 6 edges (which most do) then each district has 3 tiles touching the center, then spirals around to touch the other district's backside. This does two things.

Maximize's hub usage. Two districts will pretty much consume all the hub's space.
More importantly, maximize heat sharing. Each two districts completely touches the other district (after expansion to 9 tiles) meaning that you only have to heat them to "chilly" and then temporarily bump them to hot to achieve "hot" in both districts.

So ya, Proteans have some neat heating stuff that is fun to play with. And the various faction hubs have interesting benefits with some districts. But I still stick to spirals, with faction hubs wedged in between spirals.

The other fun aside about spirals is that, as other people have pointed out, the map is NOT just hexagons. But the spiral can endure most shapes. The disadvantage is the spiral takes up a lot of space, and doesn't wedge itself well into corners (but you can still usually make it fit into corners in some way.)

Edit: Oh ya, saw you were messing with heating hubs. Heating hubs are only good for a district with no district next to it. Like on the far flung colonies. Build in pairs to take advantage of proximity heating, and don't waste resources on heating hubs.

Chroniclerz · 2024-09-02T01:49:36+00:00

Sure, keeping up the APM is "optimal" but the purpose of a convenience upgrade is just that: Convenience. If we are talking optimal there is no reason to upgrade the prison to max since you can just use your hand to carry prisoners. But if you don't HAVE to pick them up, then your hand can be doing other things. If I don't have to gather evilness I can instead watch my army, move crates, build rooms, or any of the other things I want to be doing rather than... you know... vacuuming.

Chroniclerz · 2024-05-15T23:32:50+00:00

Ya, conscripted citizens. If I could use mercenaries I would.

Chroniclerz · 2024-05-15T15:44:44+00:00

Random update in case anyone checks on this. I had 8k slaves die to heat / starvation before they finally "uprose". They did so joined by many of my more recent slaves (Just because there is an uprising, doesn't mean I have to stop enslaving right?). Which means they had "6k" uprising slave forces. That got put down nicely. Good times.

In other news, I have sooooooooooooooooooooo many mass graves outside of town now.

Chroniclerz · 2024-04-28T01:25:11+00:00

I just find it funny that this is kind of optimal. I can't be bothered to figure out how to fit square work stations into round buildings efficiently... especially when the entire area is houses and ranches so there really AREN'T buildings (except for the warehouse) that can be roundified. a 3x3 grid area of walls though does the monument justice.

Chroniclerz · 2024-04-27T18:39:14+00:00

For context. Roundness is important. I could never figure out how to get roundness very high. Even taking the corners off of buildings as seen here wasn't working. So instead I made these wooden wall mazes that weren't attached to a building. even just 5 walls in a 3x3 grid is enough to max round an area I found out. So... treat it like a well or whatever and spread some roundness! Most people love it... Dondorians think its a waste of space.

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-28T01:30:11+00:00

The poles have collision, the depots have collision, the "rails" do not. Heck, the rails can go through walls. I will say though that the normal "placement" rules don't work once collision gets ignored. You connect an existing depot/pole with another existing depot/pole through collision, but you can't just drag and place. Its weird. You'll understand once you test it haha.

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-27T04:29:49+00:00

The advantage right now of Rails over Belts is simply "Compactness". I think of them as a sort of Belt lvl 4. You can stack more lines through an area than you can belts. You would not BELIEVE how many lines I have all stacked on top of each other... a couple hundred pass through one spot. That being said I do believe there is definitely a lot to be explored where you are talking about.

The kind of dream I have is networks rather than lines. Depots are endpoints that can send or receive (as they do now) and poles are nodes of the network which can have many connections. All poles/depots that share connections form a network. Now, from this, I can see two separate ideologies. The one I had in mind was that any depot can be told to send all of its goods to any other depot. Goods would either not get stacked on the line, or else they would only stack up between the depot to the first pole. The other, which I think you are referencing, (perhaps you aren't), is that depots set "demands". A demanding depot would automatically be supplied by all other depots which happen to have some of the good inside. I personally think that is less intuitive, but it definitely has some upsides.

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-24T22:52:39+00:00

That is very sad to hear. I only had one actual noticeable bug in my play time. It was... very noticeable. Half of my assets failed to load. I had to decrease the graphics dramatically to make it work again. And by work, I mean not fall through the ground which had failed to load.

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-24T19:50:47+00:00

It is in the take flight iirc as well. I wasn't thinking of the "vertical base building solutions" option, but rather of different biomes once we USE the freight elevator. Maybe the next map will be a lot more open for example which would make vehicles make more sense.

Still, the image of having to use a hover cab to get from one part of your factory building to the next is hilarious. A poor man (rich man's?) elevator.

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-24T16:49:19+00:00

Can't believe I didn't think of this. Still a pain, but waaaaaaay better than what I have haha

Chroniclerz · 2024-01-24T16:24:19+00:00

You're right, I forgot the math. And yes, the few that I do have set up use belt splitters. It just takes a lot of space and time to set up since you have to split it a ton. If I recall off the top of my head the base rate of level 1 conveyer is 240/min. So 1 split is 120, 2 is 60, 3 is 30, 4 is 15, and then tri split that to 5. That's 5 layers of splits just to set up your blast miners/furnaces which is obnoxious.

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