Change name of "O2 Tank" to "Air Tank"
scubamatt
Georgia, USA Join Date: 2016-05-22 Member: 217295Members
Georgia, USA Join Date: 2016-05-22 Member: 217295Members
Three reasons:
1st - you nearly instantly refill your Air Tank every time you hit the surface (which is in itself pretty darn incredible, even in a sci fi game). I can stretch my suspension of disbelief to include "super fast filling air compressor" but I can't stretch it far enough to cover "...that also extracts just the oxygen in this planet's atmosphere, and nothing else". Incidentally, refilling my air gauge at different rates, depending on where I am (surface, sea base, vehicle, moon pool) is very strange, if it is somehow magically extracting just pure O2 into my tank. It makes marginally more sense if its just compressing the existing ambient air supply, because of pressure variances in the seabase, etc.
2nd - breathing pure oxygen (O2) at depth is actually lethal. Oxygen is a *very* small percentage of the breathing gas mix you use when diving deep, this is why blended breathing gases like Nitrox were invented, to reduce oxygen toxicity, and decompression sickness (the bends). Seriously, as a scuba diver in real life, the whole "O2 Tank" thing really ruins the (wait for it) immersive game environment you are trying to create.
3rd - When you upgrade your O2 Tanks in the Modification Station, the tool tip already says "Air Tank" as one of the items needed. So let's get some continuity, and go with the correct term (Air Tank), and change the O2 Tank label in the PDA/Inventory/Fabricator menu to "Air Tank"
Thanks!
1st - you nearly instantly refill your Air Tank every time you hit the surface (which is in itself pretty darn incredible, even in a sci fi game). I can stretch my suspension of disbelief to include "super fast filling air compressor" but I can't stretch it far enough to cover "...that also extracts just the oxygen in this planet's atmosphere, and nothing else". Incidentally, refilling my air gauge at different rates, depending on where I am (surface, sea base, vehicle, moon pool) is very strange, if it is somehow magically extracting just pure O2 into my tank. It makes marginally more sense if its just compressing the existing ambient air supply, because of pressure variances in the seabase, etc.
2nd - breathing pure oxygen (O2) at depth is actually lethal. Oxygen is a *very* small percentage of the breathing gas mix you use when diving deep, this is why blended breathing gases like Nitrox were invented, to reduce oxygen toxicity, and decompression sickness (the bends). Seriously, as a scuba diver in real life, the whole "O2 Tank" thing really ruins the (wait for it) immersive game environment you are trying to create.
3rd - When you upgrade your O2 Tanks in the Modification Station, the tool tip already says "Air Tank" as one of the items needed. So let's get some continuity, and go with the correct term (Air Tank), and change the O2 Tank label in the PDA/Inventory/Fabricator menu to "Air Tank"
Thanks!
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