Actually, I'm pretty sure you could just put the conduits inside the walls, floors, and ceilings to where they'd have to dig through a bit to get to them. The only problem is that they couldn't pass through the empty space of the corridors themselves. Then again, you could just make special endpoints that see each other and assume that the conduit is snaking around behind or in front of the corridor where you can't see it. It'd be just as easy to dig to and destroy those endpoints.

You wouldn't even have to make these conduits part of the actual corridor bunker modules. The could just be their own bunker modules that are pinned objects set inside their own little cookie cutout, so you could set them in the walls.

This is what I was thinking. You can easily make "cables" with BG data for the conduit bunkermodule.

(forgive my horrible drawing skills) The light grey box is the actual Lua'd-up MOSRotting, and the light blue are the "cables", red boxes being the connecting points for other bunkermodule power transferring modules.

OR OR OR!!!

This:

[I had to resize it, but you get the idea]

Take a set of bunkers, normal average bunkers, and add in two gaps, with a special "plug". The plug connects between modules and has an on or off state. Its on if the light blue wire you see is touching it and a power source/on plug. This way, it forms a relay over long distance, and if a plug is down, the system is down. Simple. You can get fancy with 4-way hubs, batteries/surge protectors, half on/powered states, ect. It will take fancy code and Data's help, but I think true power is the coolest element we can realistically add to CC.

Some diagrams:


In this, you see the wires [I called them beams, but wires would be easier/realistic] Form a relay from generator, plug set, plug/door set. I don't know much about Lua, but maybe it could check if there is a path from the wire to the plug or something. Also, the wires could both be vital. The top wire could control the motor, while the bottom controls locking. If the top was destroyed, the door would no longer open. If the bottom was destroyed, the door would no longer close/open/open for both teams.



Here someone has bombed/dug/something-ed through the connection. This means the next plug in the relay has no connection, and is turned off. If this was the above diagram, the plug/door combo would be missing power, meaning the motor it was connected to is no longer functioning.

If we wanted to get really serious, the brain could also require power. If the power to the brain was cut, the brain would no longer be able to switch between actors/be stuck on the current actor/start to die.

Interesting situations, no?

I was thinking, that there should be power cascades(overloads) to make things interesting and to add another danger of building cheap.

You should have levels of generators, ones for so and so watts, etc etc.
And it should be able to not have enough power.

You could have a door on the generator that opens when a robot comes by, and the robot can walk in and make the generator output more. But the robot couldn't get back out.

Or maybe expensive robots that sit by the generator somehow making it work better, but if they leave the area or die, the bonus stops.

In the future we haven't perfected magnetic induction power?

Well, we haven't mastered magnetic lobsters, so no!

Holy...
What did I start here?

PROBLEM!
Then the enemy will fire into the door like the stupid ♥♥♥♥ they are, because they know it is a door.

Too many MOSRs, it would lag to all hell.

Solution: Make the doors on team 2, and only open when the power is cut. : |

Not really. Pinned MOSRots are relatively low in resource usage. Plus, you wouldn't be using them all over your base, only where you need the power to go. Plus you can combine them into longer versions too, for long tunnels or shafts.

My house doesn't explode when a fuse goes out. I would hope that future buildings wouldn't have this problem.

Maybe, but how fun would that be in a game? It's like saying "In the future wouldn't we have settled international conflict/brainwashed the people?" Then where would the game be?

We did brainwash the people! See: ronin!

Also forgive me for quoting cracked.com but:



Why bother sticking to reality when we're obviously far into the future? Do something interesting; new; DIFFERENT.