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Glitter Tech Classic (No Surgery)
Ranger|.\\ 13 Jul, 2017 @ 12:25pm
Titanium Revised
I've been using your mods for a long time. I wish to leave you some feedback about Titanium which frankly annoys me in the game.

Titanium has no reason to be stronger than plasteel to me. I would replace health stats of plasteel with titanium. Anyway what annoys me is that Titanium weighs 1kg per unit while plasteel and steel weigh 0.5kg per unit. As a general rule Titanium gets lighter the "purer" the metal gets. The "purer" it is, the stronger it is.

So... theoretically you could keep Titanium as the strongest metal in the game but you should "again theoretically" make it as light as steel or even lighter. In the latter case it would explain why the price in the markets is so high (Steel is 1,90$. Plasteel is 14$. Titanium is 32$. So with a quick look you can easily see that Titanium is 228,5714285714286% more expensive than Plasteel and 1684,210526315789% than steel). Increased beauty bonuses are also very high, but I welcome them, still don't justify the price, and honestly when you look for construction materials you don't look for beautiful metals, meaning beauty factors should have a big price multiplier

Light and strong, thanks to excellent processing of titanium, you could say it's a costly procedure lel. LORE. I would also like to point out that there are recently made alloys of steel that are lighter and stronger than the best of modern titanium but so far, it cant be massively produced.

Also, I would like to ask why wall lights require titanium? I don't understand why it would need titanium for balance reasons since it's so expensive, I don't think you should be spending it on lights. Same with flood light. I would replace the 15 titanium with steel, or even plasteel and increase uranium requirement to 10 or 100, because it's a micro-metal (or however those metals are called, I forgot), and then basically you could make it self-nuclear-powered kek (Just kidding! or am I?). As for workbenches I understand the use of titanium is it can be used for pipes and mechanisms, or for sturdiness or 'cause it can't rust and the like.

P.S.1 I put pure in quotation marks because I don't know if pure titanium is actually stronger. Basically I meant that titanium gets lighter in the process of making it stronger. I don't know if it's because a new alloy is made that includes metals lighter than titanium or because impurities are removed. Probably both. A quick google would answer this but meh :)

P.S.2 Making this a discussion because the comment is too big (characters limit is 1000) and I don't want to post three comments.

TL:DR I'm asking you to revise/rebalance the Titanium material. My main issue is it's too heavy in comparison to other metals. I don't mind it being stronger and more expensive than plasteel. But I just can't justify the increased weight and hurts my lore and realism and immersion. Sorry D:
Last edited by Ranger|.\\; 13 Jul, 2017 @ 12:27pm