Water/Ice Condensers
Currently, the only way to irrigate farm plots is to convert a non-trivial amount of ice in the irrigation system - this poses an issue in that ice requires manual intervention to either find new deposits when they dry up, or to buy it from NPC stations.
I propose a block that passively draws water from the surrounding atmosphere, at a rate dependent on atmospheric density and the current weather.
Whether this condenser would output ice or water ready for use in farm plots is a matter of balance - the former would also allow for renewable hydrogen, given time and the energy cost of electrolysis.
Another way this could be implemented is to track the number of farm plots in a pressurised area and their water usage - placing a condenser in this area would allow it to reclaim the water used.
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This would make sense if the block is limited to large grid stations in some planets. The same way that wind turbines work, requiring a static station grid and atmosphere to work.
Making farming for survival require less steps in certain planets, and hydrogen refueling stations possible without maintenance.
However, the construction of a Condenser should be expensive, component-wise, similar to a jump drive to make it something to aspire to later in the game, instead of something to exploit early on.
-Leowolf27-
This would make sense if the block is limited to large grid stations in some planets. The same way that wind turbines work, requiring a static station grid and atmosphere to work.
Making farming for survival require less steps in certain planets, and hydrogen refueling stations possible without maintenance.
However, the construction of a Condenser should be expensive, component-wise, similar to a jump drive to make it something to aspire to later in the game, instead of something to exploit early on.
-Leowolf27-
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