(09-18-2018, 03:19 PM)Haxus Wrote: These manufacturing processes, all patents, do not consume anything that determines the final Q of the patent. The resulting patent Q is determined by the Q of the university.
"Adamantite, Method for Mining"
"Bolite, Method for Mining"
"Eludium, Method for Mining"
"Lumenite, Method for Mining"
"Phlogiston, Method for Drilling"
"Polytaride, Method for Drilling"
"Radioactives, Method for Mining"
"Viathol, Method for Drilling"
"Vulcanite, Method for Mining"
The solution would be to make a requirement of their natural resource material. e.g. The Adamantite patent would have to consume a chunk of adamantite. That is not impractical, as each of the materials can be gathered by hand. The quality of the patent would then be equal to the quality of the material, since building Q is not a factor.
Forcing us to forage a few rock samples in order to research them makes a lot of sense.
Only issue is than liquid resources (Magmex and Myrathane) and gaseous resources (Cryozine and Ioplasma). I would however suggest changing them to having the environmental factors just be time reduction and then give us ways to collect samples.
A tool to forage gaseous resources from the atmosphere in person would be interesting. The liquid resources I don't have a good idea about how to forage, especially Magmex.
But we could also just use a spacecraft with a harvester bay to collect the samples.
(09-18-2018, 03:36 PM)Vectorus Wrote: Gas giant resources might be too hard to gather by hand. The gravity is typically too great for you to move on foot.
In my experience, swimming in a gas giant isn't affected by gravity. But maybe something changed with the fall damage addition?
EDIT: Foraging and swimming inside a gas giant works fine, no issue. Updated the wiki.