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The most shocking resource
rallythelegions:
I have no screenshot of it, but I would like to comment on an amazing touch by the devs that shocked and excited me. A resource indicator pops up on my map. Low and behold, Perovskites! Not only that, but they give a bonus to solar energy produced!
I'm currently a Chemistry grad student researching applications of Perovskites in solar panels. Using these babies for dye sensitized solar cells is something that has only been around for like 4 or 5 years, so the fact that it's made its way into the game is astounding to me (unless I just vastly underestimate how much the public hears about new scientific innovations that haven't yet made it to market). Kudos to the devs!
TheVampire100:
I had to google it up in order to understand what you mean. And yes, appearantly the developers did their research for this. I guess no one except someone with a chemistry background knowledge would notice this, they could totally do something different to the resource without someone even saying anything.
People would just shrug it off with the "It's an alien sci-fi game, they can do whatever they want with it." behaviour.
While we're on it, why not stating out other interesting resources?
I shuckled at the dropbears. they are clearly a reverfence to the Ewoks of the Star Wars franchise.
Zebeast46:
--- Quote from: TheVampire100 on July 01, 2015, 10:10:21 pm ---I had to google it up in order to understand what you mean. And yes, appearantly the developers did their research for this. I guess no one except someone with a chemistry background knowledge would notice this, they could totally do something different to the resource without someone even saying anything.
People would just shrug it off with the "It's an alien sci-fi game, they can do whatever they want with it." behaviour.
While we're on it, why not stating out other interesting resources?
I shuckled at the dropbears. they are clearly a reverfence to the Ewoks of the Star Wars franchise.
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Had a good laugh off the dropbears, also had a laugh about a particular spice (i think) that empowered ground troops.
crazyroosterman:
--- Quote from: rallythelegions on July 01, 2015, 09:57:24 pm ---I have no screenshot of it, but I would like to comment on an amazing touch by the devs that shocked and excited me. A resource indicator pops up on my map. Low and behold, Perovskites! Not only that, but they give a bonus to solar energy produced!
I'm currently a Chemistry grad student researching applications of Perovskites in solar panels. Using these babies for dye sensitized solar cells is something that has only been around for like 4 or 5 years, so the fact that it's made its way into the game is astounding to me (unless I just vastly underestimate how much the public hears about new scientific innovations that haven't yet made it to market). Kudos to the devs!
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god dam nerds!. ps in all seriousness that's actually pretty cool.
rallythelegions:
The nerd in me has to point out that the perovskites used for solar cells aren't the ones that come out of the ground. They just have the same crystalline structure. Still, though, super cool that the devs knew about them and put them in the game. I'm curious what other resources have ties to real science that I'm not catching.
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