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An interesting bug/oversight.

Tried driving from Talos to Bridge, skipping Laurion. Got from bridge to Santorini. Power in rover running low. I drive to central compound, nearly out of power. I get halfway through "Park Rover", when I run out of power.

There is no option to get out of my Rover.

There is no option to push my dead battery Rover into the powered Garage.

There is no option to enter the Santorini, grab a fuel cell, and then go back to the Rover and turn on its generator.

Now I have all my actions as "red" (cannot do), and despite having 11mins till Santorini is destroyed, I'm forced to Loop Now.

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So what is the point of the Talos to Dam route, if you don't actually have the power to make it to Santorini, without visiting Laurion to grab the fuel cells?

Shadowsand100 days ago

This is not a bug, not an oversight. It's an unimplemented feature because of the huge amount of time and effort it would take to implement the ability to:

Get in/out of your rover anywhere
Walk from anywhere to a facility
Enter/leave a facility on foot, despite normally only being able to enter with a rover.
Walk from a facility back to whatever random place you left your rover

Even if you could do all that, Santorini central doesn't have any fuel cells. So you'd have to also be able to walk from central to the quarry and back. All of which is a moot point because I believe you can make it from Talos to Santorini without going to Laurion, you just need more familiarity with the route. And even if you can, it is in fact faster to drive from Laurion, back to Talos then to Santorini than it is to drive straight from Laurion to Santorini.

Palandus100 days ago

Fair enough. I'll have to keep doing the route more then.

Palandus99 days ago

Well, you could always just "fudge" it. There are times when you can stop an action-midway and do something else. Like, say you hit travel to dam at Talos, and halfway into doing that action, you hit park rover. So you park the rover.

Santorini quarry has a manual entrance, that you can't park the rover into. So you HAVE to exit the rover to walk there. And that is where the fuel cells are.

So you could have, just for Santorini, a walk to Compound that takes 4x as long as driving to the Compound, could be a "hacky" / "duct tape" solution to this problem, for just this one area.

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