@Sylvi (View Post)

Sylvi:

The primary issues with most Nitrogen suggestions is that most haven't made a convincing argument and thus not a motivating enough idea for current developers to implement into the game. Breaking saves isn't an issue (either there's compatibility flags or workarounds to making the element "good enough").

Most threads argue the addition based on realism and 'because x exists, y needs to also exist'. Both a terrible basis for arguments because they don't show actual isolated use-cases or any unique reactions. The Powder Toy never aims for realism, we don't claim to be realistic. There's more than enough engineering simulation tools out in the world to do that task. It's only just "close enough". Things that functionally work in ways that aren't unexpected, but also not predictably boring.

As you know as well as I do,people have been suggesting nitrogen for hundreds of times,so it must be along with the public will.I'm sure people will be very pleased to see that the element they have long been suggesting is finally added.

Sylvi:

The final point I need to make is that we get a lot of element suggestions. Many repeats over the past decade plus that I've been around here. That becomes a problem because we get so many who come up with elements that are complex and expect twisting the idea around in one form another will result in better consideration by the developers. It's really not about that - rather everyone wants to suggest, but no one wants to put fourth the time and effort to code out their idea. Almost all of the elements and features added to the game these days are pull requests in the github repo.

I understand that people usually give the suggestion and expect devs to do all the development. First of all,I'm not like that.I know c++ and have also developed a mod for a short period(corrupted because of inability to do 2FA).Now it can only resume in desktop,and I can never share future versions with the community. But if you want me to,I can still write the code and somehow send it to a dev.