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Flexible Fuel Cell Idea!

Currently, a fuel cell is worth 50 fuel, but you cannot refuel a machine if it's just over 50 because it'd waste a fuel cell, which means high fuel-cell usage batches cannot be processed most of the time. I have an idea below that would not change how much fuel cells are worth, but would make them more flexible:

Make fuel cells worth only 1 unit, but make it so we can make 500 of them at a time. Make em stack at 500 in our inventory. Then whenever we refuel, it'll always be able to refuel to 100, assuming we had enough fuel cells in our inventory. It'd literally be the same as it is now, except more flexible!

* 1 fuel cell worth 50 units each becomes 50 fuel cells worth 1 unit each.
* 10 fuel cells which would total 500 fuel, becomes 500 fuel cells totalling 500 fuel.
* Stacking 500 fuel cells would be the same in this change, as stacking 10 fuel cells right now.

I'm not sure how you'd do the recipe though. Maybe lock the amount you create in 50 unit increments.

Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • You'd need 1/25 of a white gas then, which would be weird.
    Posted 6 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, hence my comment at the end on how the recipe would be dealt with. That is tricky. =/

    I don't think it'd be easy or feasible for them to create a special incremental system for the 'how many?' box just for this.

    Only thing I could think of is if they also changed the amount of peat, jellisac, and white gas you can acquire respectively but lowered their respective worth to compensate. Which would be weird for white gas. Well crud. I dunno.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Could maybe crush fuel cells into smaller-size tablets?
    Posted 6 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Diave's idea sounds simpler to implement.  +1
    Posted 6 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or keep it a single item and just let the fuel cell deplete so that, for example, if your machine is at 55 fuel and you use a cell, that cell only has 5 fuel left?

    Kind of like the firefly jars, but disposable rather than refillable, I guess
    Posted 6 months ago by Oopsy Daisy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to diaveborn's idea.  I'd love to be able to crush a fuel cell into 50 Exploding Powder, maybe with an occasional surprise explosion while crushing. :-)
    Posted 6 months ago by Don Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or allow the machines to be refueled beyond 100, perhaps up to 149 units of fuel.
    Posted 6 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink