Quality of life additions for various blocks

Smokki shared this feedback ago

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Air vent:

- checkbox for "airlock" which automatically matches the outside pressure when depressurizing and also acts as a small oxygen tank for the airlock

Oxygen farm:

- checkbox to enable internal growth lights, which produces oxygen without contact to sun light but consumes more energy

O2/H2 Generator:

- checkbox to disable production of O2

Turrets:

- slider for turret accuracy, higer accuracy consumes more energy, good for making NPC ships which don't instantly kill you

Battery:

- checkbox for "back-up" mode which would turn the battery on and to discharge if power on the grid went off

Doors:

- checkbox to disable manual interaction with the door

LCDs:

- add button for "pages" that could be configured what to show, for example: page 1 would show text, page 2 would show arrow texture, page 3 would show text

and these could then be triggered

Lights:

- add list of configurable presets for individual lights that could be triggered, for example:

preset 1 would be normal white light, preset 2 would be blinking red light

Every block with a control panel:

- checkbox to disable control panel

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Super Happy Alien ●

I like all of your points apart from the First one with Air vents this would defeat Engineering your own air locks. if you removed that idea i could upvote this, but i like 90% of what you say.

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Smokki ●

I mainly made this post as a idea dump of what settings I keep wishing, I wouldn't expect all of them (if any) to be implemented. And it doesn't have to be "all or nothing" :)

About the air vent:

1) Currently you can't depressurize to "low" to match for example alien planet, and the air vent instead sucks the airlock empty and when the outer door is opened the pressure is equalized to low inside the airlock. Now the problem is when you cycle the airlock over and over again, when pressurizing, less oxygen is required back from the tanks to pressurize the airlock which slowly fills the tank.

2) And this is where I would like the airlock to have separate built in tank (or setting to slave oxygen tank anywhere in the grid only for airlocks) just for the purpose of cycling the airlock. I do engineer separate systems just for the airlocks, but the scale of pipes, etc. in SE is so ridiculous, that you can't really make any complex systems in a reasonably sized build.

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Super Happy Alien ●

Agreeed with the Alien planet match but also keen would need to change it from Low and high to PSI "i think thats the right term" to be able to Match inside and outside pressure.

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Smokki ●

Also the small grid normal rotor could have small conveyor port (like the advanced rotor has large conveyor port). This would help when building some compact small grid miners.

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