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[quote=“Thwap, post:15260, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15254, topic:42”]I do have to agree that power armor helmets and hydrogen are both just STUPID rare. On hydrogen… um, electrolysis is a LOT easier than many of the things we are already allowed to do in this game.

On helmets… yeah, fine, they should be pretty rare… but no more so (and probably LESS so) than full suits of power armor. THAT is the silly part.[/quote]

They STILL haven’t fixed power armor helmets never dropping? Those and portal generators aren’t even on the lists people seem to think they’re on. The portal guns are basically spider basements only.[/quote]

Portal generators used to drop in labs (I know, I’ve found them there), but I haven’t seen one in so long that I’m pretty sure they don’t anymore. I think they can spawn with scientist corpses on the map… or at least, I think I’ve found one there once. Maybe. But yeah, at this point, they’re pretty much spider basement loot.

Helmets I’ve found from soldier corpses, but VERY rarely (found a regular AND a heavy at the same spot one time - that was weird).

Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.

I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.

(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)

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You would expect that a science lab with unique cvd machine has some (alot) hydrogen in their stocks.

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[quote=“deoxy, post:15262, topic:42”]Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.

I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.

(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)[/quote]

The description already says it is special solid hydrogen used to make plasma. I also updated the wiki for the new description.

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[quote=“Soyweiser, post:15264, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15262, topic:42”]Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.

I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.

(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)[/quote]

The description already says it is special solid hydrogen used to make plasma. I also updated the wiki for the new description.[/quote]

You know we haven’t actually achieved solid hydrogen, right? It’s never been done, depending on which set of theories you subscribe to, it may be literally impossible, and even if it is, the conditions required to solidify hydrogen would be EXTREME, to put it lightly (unbelievable amounts of pressure and/or 0 degrees K, which also has never been achieved). Deuterium or tritium makes MUCH more sense, and collecting any sizable amount of THAT would indeed be practically impossible in the conditions of the apocalypse.

Diamond coating of objects is possible today. There’s no reason for that to depend on a magical substance of limited supply (since you already need an uncraftable CVD machine).

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[quote=“deoxy, post:15265, topic:42”]You know we haven’t actually achieved solid hydrogen, right? It’s never been done, depending on which set of theories you subscribe to, it may be literally impossible, and even if it is, the conditions required to solidify hydrogen would be EXTREME, to put it lightly (unbelievable amounts of pressure and/or 0 degrees K, which also has never been achieved). Deuterium or tritium makes MUCH more sense, and collecting any sizable amount of THAT would indeed be practically impossible in the conditions of the apocalypse.

Diamond coating of objects is possible today. There’s no reason for that to depend on a magical substance of limited supply (since you already need an uncraftable CVD machine).[/quote]

We have in CDDA. It is the future. It is possible in CDDA. (It has been done for game balance reasons). So yeah, feel free to add a PR to update the type of ammo to be some sort of deuterium or tritium. (Can you make plasma out of that? dunno). As soon as you do that, and it is accepted, it is no longer possible in the CDDA universe to make solid hydrogen. :).

(Ps, anybody reading, if you do make the PR, please mention me in the PR, so I get updated on the status of it, and I can change the wiki).

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I have a 3gb swap space. Which I didnt exactly choose the size of.

Im finding that as long as I dont have to use a terminal I can do everything more or less. And when it comes to the terminal I can go a little with it, and look up what I cant reason.

Im at the stage where I can do things, maybe, but I dont know exactly why Im doing things. Which means Im not learning how to do things, just how to produce the results I want.

Im trying again, and I actually reinstalled the linux. this time it compliled, I think, but I cant find the cata file to run. But it has a make file, so I presume it did make the compile.

I managed to do wine things and get the exe to produce the game, so at the least I can work on it without going to …windows 10. I dont like it, I dont like how hungry the basic processes are, and I dont even like 8, which I was using until recently. This is a new (old, refurbished) computer, so I didnt get to choose 10 or not…

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i have small question, i decided to go back to game and i updated to latest experimental, some of my guns are now in red letters, what does it mean?

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Ammo on hand, if Im understanding you right.

If you dont have clips/mags with ammo in them itll display red. If you dont have ammo for clips/mags they in turn will show red, even if they are full

Gun --> Mag --> Ammo

If the one before it doesnt have ammo, it shows red.

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so why my laser rifle is red with 9070 bionic power and ups cbm?

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[quote=“pisskop, post:15267, topic:42”]I have a 3gb swap space. Which I didnt exactly choose the size of.

Im finding that as long as I dont have to use a terminal I can do everything more or less. And when it comes to the terminal I can go a little with it, and look up what I cant reason.

Im at the stage where I can do things, maybe, but I dont know exactly why Im doing things. Which means Im not learning how to do things, just how to produce the results I want.

Im trying again, and I actually reinstalled the linux. this time it compliled, I think, but I cant find the cata file to run. But it has a make file, so I presume it did make the compile.

I managed to do wine things and get the exe to produce the game, so at the least I can work on it without going to …windows 10. I dont like it, I dont like how hungry the basic processes are, and I dont even like 8, which I was using until recently. This is a new (old, refurbished) computer, so I didnt get to choose 10 or not…[/quote]

Switching to a new OS can be quite challenging. I know that I had my hiccups and broke my computer more than a handful of times when I was learning linux. I found it to be incredibly frustrating to work with, but I absolutely love the system now. There is definitely a learning curve, but I am sure that you are no stranger to that, what with the whole cataclysm and all. I really recommend checking out some tutorials. The command line is insanely powerful at times. Recently, I used it to search through a large number of text files looking for a single piece of text. It took twenty seconds, when searching through all of the files might have taken five minutes or more, depending on how well my memory would have served me. The book offered at this website (Linux Command Line Books by William Shotts) is a great resource of learning the basic commands. One that is invaluable it the manual command:

$ man (command)

For Ubuntu–and I not even sure if that is the distro that you are using–the executable files typically have a purple diamond icon. My executable file is ./cataclysm

Before, I shared with you this command:

$ cd ~/Cataclysm-DDA && ~/Cataclysm-DDA/cataclysm This command [i]c[/i]hanges [i]d[/i]irectory and then executes/launches the second file using the string after the '&&'

That launches the game for me. ./cataclysm-launcher also works to launch the game. If neither of those two files are there, I don’t think you have compiled. The make file is the instructions for g++ to compile with.

Lubuntu is a light-weight version of ubuntu. If you’re on an older computer, it might be wise to try that out.

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[quote=“deoxy, post:15265, topic:42”][quote=“Soyweiser, post:15264, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15262, topic:42”]Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.

I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.

(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)[/quote]

The description already says it is special solid hydrogen used to make plasma. I also updated the wiki for the new description.[/quote]

You know we haven’t actually achieved solid hydrogen, right? It’s never been done, depending on which set of theories you subscribe to, it may be literally impossible, and even if it is, the conditions required to solidify hydrogen would be EXTREME, to put it lightly (unbelievable amounts of pressure and/or 0 degrees K, which also has never been achieved). Deuterium or tritium makes MUCH more sense, and collecting any sizable amount of THAT would indeed be practically impossible in the conditions of the apocalypse.

Diamond coating of objects is possible today. There’s no reason for that to depend on a magical substance of limited supply (since you already need an uncraftable CVD machine).[/quote]
Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_hydrogen

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Maybe make the ratio extraction method so specific that crafting the stuff requires disposable uncraftable equipment, rather than solid hydrogen cells that also double seamlessly as ammunition?

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[quote=“BorkBorkGoesTheCode, post:15272, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15265, topic:42”][quote=“Soyweiser, post:15264, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15262, topic:42”]Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.

I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.

(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)[/quote]

The description already says it is special solid hydrogen used to make plasma. I also updated the wiki for the new description.[/quote]

You know we haven’t actually achieved solid hydrogen, right? It’s never been done, depending on which set of theories you subscribe to, it may be literally impossible, and even if it is, the conditions required to solidify hydrogen would be EXTREME, to put it lightly (unbelievable amounts of pressure and/or 0 degrees K, which also has never been achieved). Deuterium or tritium makes MUCH more sense, and collecting any sizable amount of THAT would indeed be practically impossible in the conditions of the apocalypse.

Diamond coating of objects is possible today. There’s no reason for that to depend on a magical substance of limited supply (since you already need an uncraftable CVD machine).[/quote]
Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_hydrogen[/quote]

Um, ok, wow. Clearly (assuming wikipedia isn’t being full of BS, which it very rarely is, outside of political topics), I’m remembering something incorrectly. I haven’t looked into this stuff in about 15 years, but if hydrogen was first frozen in 1899, then that’s no excuse.

Still, the temperature/pressures involved in freezing hydrogen… yeah, they’re insane. Using deuterium or tritium for the fusion applications makes more sense, from a “limited to stuff from before the cataclysm” perspective (and also from some fusion-related perspective, IIRC, which I obviously might not).

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Kerrblade when?

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Insofar as wikipedia seems to elucidate, it seems that solid hydrogen only happens in extremely small quantities in particularly insular molecular complexes.
So it’s still roughly as esoteric as you said it was, anyway. Way more esoteric than nuclear fusion.

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How does one batch-craft? I keep hearing people talk about it but have no clue how to do it myself.

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Shift 7
Find item
press lowercase 'b’
select amount

Npcs will help, up to 2. In addition it is often more time efficient to craft items in bulk.

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And in some cases, more resource efficient too to bulk craft.

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Other than fuel sources (you can perform one large batch with a small fire that goes out instead of a large fire that lasts long enough for multiple sessions), I’m not aware of anything resource benefits, only time.

Or is there something I’m missing?

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Other than fuel sources (you can perform one large batch with a small fire that goes out instead of a large fire that lasts long enough for multiple sessions), I’m not aware of anything resource benefits, only time.

Or is there something I’m missing?[/quote]That’s a case, yeah.