Rename hydrogen tanks to oxyhydrogen tanks & alter O2/H2 Generator

Vickie Fox shared this feedback ago

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Hydrogen engines, hydrogen thrusters and a player's hydrogen fuelled jetpack are all capable of burning hydrogen, outside of an atmosphere, without the use of oxygen, while the current operation of O2/H2 Generators, allows them to produce either oxygen or hydrogen from ice, but not both concurrently.

I prepose that O2/H2 Generators produce both hydrogen and oxygen, at the same time, in the more realistic ratio of two to one, and that hydrogen tanks become oxyhydrogen tanks (oxyhydrogen being a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas, and allowing for combustion outside of an atmosphere).

I also prepose that a O2/H2 generator remains capable of producing pure oxygen given that it is attached, by conveyor, to a vent that allows for the hydrogen to be 'dumped'.

The use of oxyhydrogen tanks, instead of hydrogen burning devices taking from both an oxygen and a hydrogen tank, allows for the size of hydrogen powered craft to remain constant, and also fewer changes being made to the game, in this later stage of its development.

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Tevis C ●

An O2/H2 mixture in a pressurized container is a bomb.I do agree that its kinda crazy hydrogen is used as propellant without oxygen. Without O2, H2 dont go boom..

For realism a craft to use hydrogen thrusters it would need both O2 and H2 tanks. I would support such a change...

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Vickie Fox ●

I concur that storing the gases as a mixture would be too dangerous for a real world applicaton, however having hydrogen fuelled devices draw from both hydrogen and oxygen tanks, would be quite a large change to the game and would cause many current ship designs to break.

I do not think that such a large change can be applied, this late into the game's development, but for the sake of realism, perhaps the tanks could have a large explosion radius, when damaged?

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Noruzenchi86 ●

The o2 generator definitely already generates oxygen and hydrogen at the same time, although it's true they do so at the same rate currently.

Something might have changed when the survival update dropped, because I could've sworn I remembered water to gas conversion being 2 and 1 accurately, but now it's not, or something. At least, I downloaded a mod that changes it to the 2-1 ratio, so maybe something happened?

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