#🚁HYDRO UPLOAD Revamp🚁

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There are about a million ways to make Miners more useful, and the game more dynamic, and I think the way Hydro was changed in Dark Nebula opens a huge amount of opportunities. I hope we see some things like this in the future, whether by a reworking of underused mods, or new mods altogether. Here'e an idea for Hydro Upload:

(WS ONLY for now, but could be adapter to RS.)

Hydro Upload will have a radius, and allow it to target locations as well as ships. Higher levels increase the power of the effect. Radius around 300au (size of Ally 12, for reference) seems reasonable.

Target a Battleship : Reduce cooldown time of all modules on target BS that are currently cooling down. The reduction is a percentage of time remaining - so the effect is better if used sooner - so that it doesn’t catch people off guard to suddenly have mods cooled down.

Target a Transport : Temporary bonus to movement and loading speeds of target transport

Target a Miner : Sends an amount of hydro from one miner, to the target (Entrust, but for Miners). This would allow some Miners to be the mule, bringing Replicator, while not every miner needs to equip Replicator.

(I also have some ideas for adding various Stations to WS that this could have an effect on, but I haven't fleshed those ideas out yet)

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🚁HYDRO UPLOAD Revamp🚁

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gotta have those Helicopters in there >:]

rustic hull
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I think the old Hydrogen Upload was better, being able to automatically deposit hydrogen into your reserves without returning to a planet was useful, that needs to be brought back in some way

last path
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Mining is different now..

last path
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👀

shy kayak
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you mf lol

last path
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What did i do!

magic swallow
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All we gonna get is hydro upload boosts hydro dump

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But I think all of this should be in for sure adds more dynamics to the game 👍

umbral yacht
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Hydro Replicator should effect Hydro Upload similar to the trade mods with Cargo Drone

last path
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👍

shy kayak
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I wanted to dig this up cause I think about it every once in a while

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I think this is brilliant because hydrogen upload is perhaps the most forgotten mod in the game, and a dynamic mod that can target each ship type is really neat

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This would also be a pretty involved addition to the game, but I like this idea a lot

last path
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This game still holds a lot of potential. Every ship type has possibilities to make the game more dynamic. Wish we wouldn't sit in limbo for months on end, wondering if new content is coming

shy kayak
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I agree, but I also understand not announcing stuff. During DN development there was a lot of toxicity around stuff that was announced but later decided against (ie. Quantum stars, crystal diplomacy trade)

boreal cave
shy kayak
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I'm surprised this hasnt gotten much interactions
is there anyone that approves of hydrogen uploads current state?

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As a rule of thumb, if you dont know any players that plan on upgrading a mod ever, it probably needs tweaking

hoary vessel
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Hydrogen Upload is shit because on WS. It doesn't get benefits from Hrep

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Can't be used on other star so ????

shy kayak
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Truly, he who has ever thought of using hydrogen upload and does not think it needs a rework, please step forward

hoary vessel
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It does needs a very heavy reworks

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Because it has no uses as for now

amber spear
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well it would be fairly balanced (other than wasting mod space)
if hydro replicator didn't multiply the amount of hydro dropped on a planet

shy kayak
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Making it compatible with hydrogen replicator is the minimum of what's required to make it usable

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Even with compatibility, I think many would prefer crunch or another mining mod over upload

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Since upload is only available in one game mode, it should at least excel there

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I think creating a strategic choice between miner mods, as laid out in the original post, would be better than simply improving the current function of upload

amber spear
willow flare
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upload should be scrapped and be remake into new miner mod

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ts has 2 drone mod
miner has 1 drone mod, how about remake upload into a drone that deliver MAX AMOUNT of hydro (increase with lv) to chosen planet, it'll share the hydro rep with the miner

shy kayak
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upload rework is desperately needed, maybe the least used mod?

magic swallow
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I think having all of these functions in 1 module may be to much. I could see an "offload" feature that allows the miner to send its hydro capacity to another miner along with speeding up the loading time of relics (possibly artifacts) by uploading hydro to transport only 1 upload per transport. Or it only allows battleship cooldowns with a higher deduction time per level almost like rse but with hydro and cooldowns

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Could have a cooldown on the transport load time so maybe you get 2 uses per 1 transport. But doesn't work with relic drone because when you upgrade the load time is decreased

hoary vessel
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Offload would be awesome 👀

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It makes dumping hydro more faster

magic swallow
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I think offloading would still be % of capacity per level unless it's always 100% of miner capacity. Upgrade could be range or maybe decrease in cooldown like tele

stray kayak
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Could be an "offload drone", which would travel to its destination like blast drones do (so that it could target moving ships.)
As a consequence, it could be destroyed on its way.
It would have a given capacity, based on its level.
(Level could also improve hull, speed and/or range.)

magic swallow
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I was thinking if you are able to offload then higher levels would sit and mine and offload onto lower miners idk how "good" of a thing that is but would probably be more useful than planet uploads. Also if your miner is about to get destroyed you could offload it onto a different miner not in range of enemies maybe

stray flower
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It would actually be reverse. Worse miners would offload to miners with a higher hydro replicator for that extra bonus.

brazen pasture
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Just found this. I like the radius limit idea more than the Drone.
in WS, more drone is extra target and defending them is less fun than fighting
in RS,it woulf make it way harder to handle ships. 3BS,transports+miners...

Sure a few drones sound good to affect loading/non-fighting in RS(and other stars) but it looks a bit overwhelming while just reading this.

shy kayak
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i bet the only reason this isnt higher on #community-dashboard is because people dont know what hydrogen upload is

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most forgettable mod of all time