Excessive Reload Time - Chemical Thrower

Wally-kun · 2016-11-27T03:01:08.000Z

I made a chemical thrower, because chemical warfare is fun. I went through the trouble of making some toxic gas for it. Then I reload it.

11 hours later, I’m done reloading.

I feel this is somewhat excessive. It’s not even 100% full and I spent literally the entire day filling this thing. What in the world could possibly take so long?

mugling · 2016-11-27T03:02:45.000Z

Known bug - indeed it’s on the release list for 0.D

Wally-kun · 2016-11-27T04:27:49.000Z

I think it’s just because of how many “units” are in a chemical thrower “magazine.” It’s currently set to 90 per unit and there’s 1000 of these in a mag. That’s…a lot.

I went into the files and changed it to 20 to see how it felt. It takes a while, but more along the lines of 20 minutes instead of 12 hours.

Seems kind of short, but it could do. Somewhere between 20 and 35 seems good to me.

Coolthulhu · 2016-11-27T09:21:48.000Z

It’s probably some sort of mismatch between ammo volume and magazine volume.

At the moment it can be bypassed by unloading a container into the thrower instead of reloading the thrower itself.

Wally-kun · 2016-11-28T23:47:27.000Z

Honestly the Chen thrower is a bit underwhelming. I love the idea of dumping poison in an ant colony, but 3x3 squares at a range of 4 max is hard to work with.

I think it needs longer range, or wider spread. You can’t dump poison on even ants without them seeing you and attacking. Gets complicated.