[quote=“Duros, post:12, topic:6885”][quote=“KA101, post:10, topic:6885”]Huh, an area you’ve covered already shouldn’t get a new map_special. Either one’s there when you first arrive, or one’s never there. If you’d write that up and post in the Garage?
3D printing might be viable for mainline, but the rest are likely no-go. Airdrops likely wouldn’t be considered cost-effective (flying the plane costs fuel that would be better spent Elsewhere), we like abstraction in the crafting system, and we’ve specifically stated over in the Drawing Board that irradiating your food would be cost-inefficient at best.[/quote]
Hi, erm, I really don’t follow you in that first paragraph :S
This is really just a “basic” form of the mod im making, everything in the first post is currently in this version (V0.2) and the idea is to refine it through feedback after people use and play with it.
The air drop system I have right now is just to get the concept ironed out, the air drops would later require resources to be “sent” to these “factions” to unlock the ability to order air drops in the first place, such as fuel and raw materials to “buy your way” into their good graces to spend resources to send you these care packages.
As far as immersion goes I may make it so you need a “Supply rig” composed of a compressed air cylinder and a balloon so the items you offer can be picked up via sky-hook (batman style).
This is really just a proof of concept.
As for food irradiation after what I’ve looked up if you did it “quick dirty and dangerous” its not much more difficult that making a home made nuclear reactor (google David Hahn, he made a functional nuclear reactor out of old smoke alarms and a few extra bits and pieces in his shed when he was just 17 years old…and he wasn’t in a post-cataclysm wasteland where there are army bases and science labs just down the road he could loot)[/quote]
First paragraph was @Daidalon, and yeah, sorry to hear that.
You can make whatever you like for your mod; I saw “hey, new mod” and thought I’d do a quick checkup for mainline-eligibility. That’s all. Skyhooking things likewise wouldn’t work too well in mainline as the main issue (flying missions into/over the area is NOT cost-effective) remains.
The map_special supply drops were from back when the military was actively fighting. That time is over now, and the best the military’s doing in the area is MAYBE boots-on-the-ground guerrilla support (Acidia’s “Old Guard” faction is the remnants of the federal government, and that’s one mission-giving guy).
Crafting a reactor would require pretty decent skills and parts, I should think, but given how rarely minireactors spawn you could probably get a lot of popular support if you PR’d a crafting recipe (and the item, obvs) for homemade-reactor. You’d need some cites for it, but that might work.
