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=== [[Tesla Engine|Starting That Other Engine]] === | === [[Tesla Engine|Starting That Other Engine]] === | ||
Some Chief Engineers prefer to use the tesla engine over the singularity engine. The same precautions apply. | Some Chief Engineers prefer to use the tesla engine over the singularity engine. The same precautions apply. | ||
=== [[Supermatter|Starting the third Engine]] === | |||
Sometimes there's a [[Supermatter]] instead of a Singularity/Tesla engine, it takes a few more steps to setup and only your department will hate you if you mess it up. | |||
=== Working on the [[Solars]] === | === Working on the [[Solars]] === | ||
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==Tips== | ==Tips== | ||
* To get maximum camera coverage, you only have to place one camera every fifteen tiles. If there's a wall between them, use an analyzer on the assembly after you weld it to the wall to create an xray camera. Otherwise, count seven tiles from where the previous camera disappears from view and build a camera there. | * To get maximum camera coverage, you only have to place one camera every fifteen tiles. If there's a wall between them, use an analyzer on the assembly after you weld it to the wall to create an xray camera. Otherwise, count seven tiles from where the previous camera disappears from view and build a camera there. | ||
* By placing Arcade machines next to the singularity in engineering, every time the singularity spits out an EMP, the arcade machines will spit out toys. I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you can simply screw and unscrew it again to reset the EMP check so you can spawn more toys from the same arcade cabinet. Engineering toy factory ahoy! | * By placing Arcade machines next to the singularity in engineering, every time the singularity spits out an EMP, the arcade machines will spit out toys. I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you can simply screw and unscrew it again to reset the EMP check so you can spawn more toys from the same arcade cabinet. Engineering toy factory ahoy! | ||
* How to make an airlock with selected access: Get a hold on the airlock control circuit and click it in your hand, use your engineer ID to change settings on it and pick the access you want it to have. | * How to make an airlock with selected access: Get a hold on the airlock control circuit and click it in your hand, use your engineer ID to change settings on it and pick the access you want it to have. | ||
* Had a power sink? Found and removed it? Good, now turn the output of every SMES off - and then turn the output back on. Sounds silly and IT-crowdish, but it works. If you do not do that some APCs may not recharge correctly. | * Had a power sink? Found and removed it? Good, now turn the output of every SMES off - and then turn the output back on. Sounds silly and IT-crowdish, but it works. If you do not do that some APCs may not recharge correctly. | ||
* Currently having a power sink? Wire the | * Currently having a power sink? Wire the engine into the grid! Enough direct power can counteract a power sink. Power sinks explode when this happens, so this can also be used tactically by the traitor. | ||
* How to wire | * How to wire the engine straight to grid: If you look at the complete station map thing, you'll see that the four Engineering SMES units receive input together and send their output out across each other. Wire the inputs across each other and into the output. You should virtually NEVER do this EXCEPT to counteract a power sink because if anyone gets shocked anywhere they’ll go straight to crit. | ||
* With the current setup of field generators, a stage 4 singularity can be contained without a problem. Stage 5, however, is coded to dislodge structures, i.e. it WILL eat the field generators by simply pulling them apart. | * With the current setup of field generators, a stage 4 singularity can be contained without a problem. Stage 5, however, is coded to dislodge structures, i.e. it WILL eat the field generators by simply pulling them apart. | ||
* Emitters will still work even after wiring in engineering as been destroyed by a bomb. Only cutting a power cable with wirecutters will cause them to stop working. | * Emitters will still work even after wiring in engineering as been destroyed by a bomb. Only cutting a power cable with wirecutters will cause them to stop working. | ||
* Arriving half an hour into the round and no one | * Arriving half an hour into the round and no one can be assed to setup the engine? Engineering SMES are drained entirely, thus the emitters just won't go online? Grab the plasma from engineering storage, put it into the PACMAN. Drag the PACMAN to the tile south of the engineering APC, use a wrench on it, set the output to 10000 and turn it on. With the 30 sheets the game starts with, you now have a good while to supply enough current to the emitters to get the engine working. | ||
* If the CE and AI are ornery (or dead) and won't open secure storage for you, you could always turn the main breaker off of the APC next to secure storage and crowbar the blast doors open. | |||
* For most construction/deconstruction operations (Mining, wrenching chairs/tables, deconstructing walls) you can click on multiple spaces to take things apart or build multiple things at a time. | * For most construction/deconstruction operations (Mining, wrenching chairs/tables, deconstructing walls) you can click on multiple spaces to take things apart or build multiple things at a time. | ||
* You can put windows directly on grilles. | * You can put windows directly on grilles. | ||
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* It is possible to upgrade the AI's cameras by using certain items... For example, you can give them x-ray properties if you apply a ultra micro laser or analyzer to them. Pretty useful if the AI needs eyes in maint and you actually have the research to produce them. Watch as the AI freaks out when it realizes it now sees EVERYTHING in the dorms. There is also a proximity sensor upgrade. Install a proximity sensor upgrade on a camera and the AI will be immediately alerted if anyone comes in view range. Insert solid plasma and the camera will be EMP-proof! | * It is possible to upgrade the AI's cameras by using certain items... For example, you can give them x-ray properties if you apply a ultra micro laser or analyzer to them. Pretty useful if the AI needs eyes in maint and you actually have the research to produce them. Watch as the AI freaks out when it realizes it now sees EVERYTHING in the dorms. There is also a proximity sensor upgrade. Install a proximity sensor upgrade on a camera and the AI will be immediately alerted if anyone comes in view range. Insert solid plasma and the camera will be EMP-proof! | ||
* You can make a voice-locked door by making an airlock, attaching a signaler to the bolt wire, creating a voice analyzer-signaler assembly and keep it on you, when you speak the code word, it toggles the bolts. You can also just use a signaler but that's no fun. | * You can make a voice-locked door by making an airlock, attaching a signaler to the bolt wire, creating a voice analyzer-signaler assembly and keep it on you, when you speak the code word, it toggles the bolts. You can also just use a signaler but that's no fun. | ||
* Here's a hint for noticing power sinks before anybody else does: | * Here's a hint for noticing power sinks before anybody else does: | ||
** always set up the SMES so that all the APCs stay full all the time (100 000+ output each) | ** always set up the SMES so that all the APCs stay full all the time (100 000+ output each) | ||
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** Get a color of wire you want, and a color of wire you have | ** Get a color of wire you want, and a color of wire you have | ||
** Add the color you have to the color you want to increase the amount of the color you want | ** Add the color you have to the color you want to increase the amount of the color you want | ||
== Traitorneering == | == Traitorneering == | ||