Resource Nozzle Placement
SoBe_Dragon
Join Date: 2002-12-04 Member: 10465Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I dont get this</div> I dont know if this topic has already been posted, or if I just missed the update in the 1.04 changes. But why is it that I cant build 2 res towers as marine on....blah what is it? ns_bast? The one with Vent-3c, archiving, and DataCore. The double resource area is Holoroom.
If this is something old, just gimmie the answer and lock the thread, if not...someone tell me why you cant build 2 res towers in that double resource room
If this is something old, just gimmie the answer and lock the thread, if not...someone tell me why you cant build 2 res towers in that double resource room
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<b>Note:</b> Realize that this is my opinion and that what I say in this case is totally untrue.
all you have to do it drop the nozels as FAR away from each other as you can
Yes, I know it looks like they always drop in the same place, however if you try and drop them to the outside edges it iwll work <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
.....()......()...... nozels
..../...........\.. where you wana try and put em <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
The solution is to stand on the far left (or perhaps try placing the RT at the far left as comm.) That way the right node's auto-alignment won't come into play.
(This is all just conjecture, but it makes sense to me <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Why are they placed in the places they are? Such as in the map ns_nothing (if I remember correctly, it's the one with Power Silo, Cargo Bay, and The Great Viaduct). Why is there a nozzle above a bottomless pit, suspended on a bridge? What starship manufacturer/space station builder would place that there? I don't really have that much of a problem with it, but there are times where I wonder why and how a resource nozzle could be placed on a grating (since there are other maps that do this as well).
IIRC, the storyline implies that nanomachines make up basically the entire physical entity of solid materials. That's why medpacks can rain from the ceiling - the nanomachines making up the structure of the ceiling re-configure into a medpack, and then gravity takes over. Nanomachines surrounding that new 'void' in the ceiling would immediately fill in the gap.
I guess the nodes can be on a grate because the nanogoop can 'flow' through the metal of the grate. Sort of like electricity - electrons will flow through a conductive material, but you don't actually see it because it occurs at so small of a scale.
The simple answer is that some mappers make an effort to put Resource Nozzles where they would be logically needed. Other mappers just put them where they feel is appropriate to gameplay, regardless of the purpose of the location. I prefer the former approach because it doesn't break the suspension of disbelief.