Do Atmosphere Converters work? |
Just curious currently have a lvl 20 on a couple of planets supposed to take .5 years to convert it to breathable atmosphere, but nothing has happened in a year+.
A note
Make sure you have only one race on the planet. If you have two, it'll convert to the majority races's atmosphere, but the colony will stay domed because of the second race.
It should be working ok...
A level 20 Atmosphere Converter should take 5.5 years or 55 game turns, not 5 turns.
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Embarrassing!
Woops! Faulty math - you're right that it is 10 - 19*0.5 = 0.5... for some reason I had 9 instead of 19. Anyhow, are you saying you have level 20 in Planet Utilization or level 20 Atmosphere Converter? The former means you'd only have a level 1 facility...
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So back to the question at hand...
Do the damn things work or not... In all my experiance with the game they most definately do not work, even when I alter the facilities.txt file to have them convert the atmosphere in 0.1 years (one game turn). Has anyone been able to transform a atmos yet, it's kinda hanging up my galactic domination thingy.
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Single race
Check to make sure the planet you're trying to terraform has only a single race on it. If you have two, and they breathe different atmospheres, the planet will NOT become undomed.
EDIT: just tested it and yeah, they work. I set it to 2 years, after 2 years poof, new atmosphere. The problem in your test might have been setting it lower than 1..
Worked for me
The time listed is a little off but they DO work. I've converted most of the planet atmoshperes i've colonized.
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Well I tried and still...
... failed to convert any atmosphere in the time I set in the facilities.txt file. I tried 0.5 years, 1 year, 1.5 years, and 2 years... nothing. The time to change the atmosphere must also be dictated by something else (and yes I know about the more-than-one-race on a planet thingy). Mayhap the size of the planet or its crappy conditions, or the size of the population, or mayhap its just a bug. I can get the things to convert an atmosphere after about 7.6 years (again odd since I have a lvl 21 in the skill and that calculates out to 10-(([%20%]-1)*0.5) or .5 if you dont want to do the math) The funny thing is that the variable [%Amount%] that is also in the text description of the facility says that at lvl 21 you convert in 9.5 years... something is fudging that number, just cannot for the life of me find it. Any ideas?
O and if the guy with that funny quote about "There are only 10 people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't" reads this I think that quote would b f***ing hilarious if it went "There are only 00000010 people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't" but I am weird anyway 
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Between 1.00 and 1.08,
Between 1.00 and 1.08, atmospheric conversion has gone from being the wrong time to broken.
It's a pretty major thing, so i'm sure someone has already tested and reported this to Aaron already so i'm going to go back to my Space Yard Mount mod.
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Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
Atmosphere Converters
They have worked for me. The description tells me they should convert the atmosphere in 10 years, but they appear to work after about a year or less.