Create a vortex

[gilded quarry]

The ability to create a new vortex would be 🔥

[tight jetty]

but people can just spam vortexs and one of the points of the game is to find ways to connect

the belts, its a factory game

[barren bay]

would be a cool end game mechanic if there was a specific kind of complex shape that if you fed a lot of to the vortex (like millions), it would create a new vortex somewhere in the map, and the location of that vortex was determined by properties of the shape like the colors of each quadrant, so you had to make a new factory for a variant of that shape for each location you wanted to spawn a new vortex in.

that way it would only be worth it to do it for large outposts and not just put them everywhere

would introduce a new type of MAM as well, where you could make a complex machine with wires that you enter coords into, and it calculates the shape needed to spawn a vortex in that location and starts producing it on mass

[alpine yoke]

Once you get train deliveries the throughput into the vortex is practically unlimited though, and having more vortexes would just make it easier to link up factories to vortexes, so I think if it was implemented in a similar way to how littlelily suggests it could add more interesting factory elements than it not being added

[vivid path]

it is easy now with trains u can connect train to one rail and all goes to vortex

[gilded quarry]

I mean limited, like a max of 5-10 vortex's

[cosmic sparrow]

RickRoller, This suggestion seems like another in a family of suggestions I'm starting to see more of. Basically to give us super powered machines, pipes, vortexes etc. But only after we have achieved particular milestones or research values etc. The idea here is as our shape factories grow in complexity, we want ways to reduce the burden of the low level simple stuff that we've already proven we know how to do.

[frail bough]

like this?

[alpine yoke]

What is this trickery!

[frail bough]

save editing

[alpine yoke]

You blaspheming traitor! Scum of the meteors! Face the wrath of the vortex you so openly deface! Wraaaaagh!

[frail bough]

nuh uh

[alpine yoke]

Oh. I have been bested. 😭

[maiden cipher]

I would make it cost 300 research points or smth

[barren bay]

I dont think even that would be enough

it's pretty easy to get a ton

[magic pier]

Creating millions of shapes isnt hard and with trains jumping into vortex making another one seems like a cheat code just learn how to use trains and you wont be blocked by input slots

[errant cedar]

I’d love an expensive extra vortex. The argument that it’s a cheat object or you can just train things in is moot when you are comparing extreme endgame senecios. Of course you can do the same thing over and over. Consider this a form of organizing or decorating.

[magic pier]

It would be cool to have decorative vortexes that dont have a use but just making a new vortex seems like a way for people to push the easy button and dont want to deal with logistics which is the basis of the game, maybe you could choose to move your vortex at some point for like 1000rp but thats the most id like to see in that sense

[unreal plank]

IDK, plugging the new factory into the generic "output" rail isn't much of a logistical challenge, it's more of a chore. An extra vortex will just be a convenience, not a game changer.

[magic pier]

Yeah so pushing the easy button

[pure tangle]

I think this could be a really cool reward for the final milestone. The ability to move your vortex and get a second one to place anywhere.