KotH Geiger

An ongoing, corporate conflict is never cheap; whether it's cash, raw manpower or valuable resources, the victor is determined as the company that is the most capable of securing its economic needs. Establishing a temporary base of command on either side of a highly-efficient, coastal, nuclear power plant, the mercenaries of BLU and RED must battle for control of the plant in order to please their employers.

[MetalKev]

Thats funny. Your contest entry is at a nuclear power plant, mine is at a nuclear waste dump.

[ForbiddenDonut]

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Originally Posted by MetalKev

Thats funny. Your contest entry is at a nuclear power plant, mine is at a nuclear waste dump.

There's just something about nuclear radioactivity that's astounding. I was watching an hour documentary about a group of scientists that had to physically enter the fourth reactor area of Chernobyl in the late 80s' in order to make sure a second chain reaction wasn't going to occur. They had to run through certain hallways because the roentgens (the former unit of measurement of the kerma of X and Gamma rays) were on a level where radiation begins to harm the human body extensively.

With the more recent Fukushima Daaiichi reactor incident, and the hovering concept that nuclear weapons do exist and can fall into the wrong hands, the very mentioning of nuclear power brings up much controversial discussion.

Plus, it brings up many spytech, TF2-esque concepts. Is the plant truly for nuclear power purposes, or is uranium being enriched for more diabolical purposes?

/hi-5 for exploring a similar topic

(PS I'm hoping some Chemistry/Physics students pop in here to help my re-creation of a reactor sensible. Gameplay is my first and foremost focus, but I want my reactor to make sense!)

[LeSwordfish]

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Originally Posted by ForbiddenDonut

(PS I'm hoping some Chemistry/Physics students pop in here to help my re-creation of a reactor sensible. Gameplay is my first and foremost focus, but I want my reactor to make sense!)

You rang?

[Godling]

Read Geiger, brain processed Giger. Am dissapoint.

[re1wind]

that would be one heck of a stylistic mashup, thats for sure.

/me joins the nuclear scenario bandwagon

[Fr0Z3n]

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Originally Posted by ForbiddenDonut

There's just something about nuclear radioactivity that's astounding.

You are a strange person.

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Originally Posted by ForbiddenDonut

(PS I'm hoping some Chemistry/Physics students pop in here to help my re-creation of a reactor sensible. Gameplay is my first and foremost focus, but I want my reactor to make sense!)

Look into how reactors look. You'll find it's just a big pool of hot water with some heavy metal rods stuck into it.
(also, hi. Student of that nature here)

[ForbiddenDonut]

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Originally Posted by Godling

Read Geiger, brain processed Giger. Am dissapoint.

That would be an interesting mash-up, especially considering that I just saw Prometheus (which was fun, but not as epic as Alien(s)). I don't believe I have the time to model or design a level that would do Giger's organic Sci-Fi work justice. I apologize to disappoint

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Originally Posted by Fr0Z3n

You are a strange person.

Considering there's three maps on the subject, potentially four (one person might not do one because of how popular the topic is), I don't think I'm that strange

Also, look at all the games that deal with the topic in one way or another (especially post-apocolyptically): STALKER, Fallout, Metro 2033, Half-Life (this one more a stretch than the others), Fallen Earth. The fact that energy itself is capable of being used in such a way that it could physically extinct our species is quite interesting. Scary? Absolutely. Nevertheless, I find it interesting.

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Originally Posted by Fr0Z3n

Look into how reactors look. You'll find it's just a big pool of hot water with some heavy metal rods stuck into it.
(also, hi. Student of that nature here)

This much I know. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is the reason why all nuclear reactors must be built in locations with a constant water supply, such as a lake or (in my case) an ocean?

The major difference that I'm going to have to play with is that normal nuclear power plants generally have around 4 reactors, while mine will only have 1. I don't want the map to be too big. It seems like a small price to pay realistically in order to maintain proper play.

[re1wind]

correction: all water-cooled nuclear reactors. (yes, thats why they're built near coasts - for the cooling)

water-cooled nuclear fission reactors commercially used are inherently unsafe as they require a constant flow of water to cool down the rods in case of disaster.
A molten salt reactor doesn't have these drawbacks as the cooling liquid is molten salt which can quickly be drained from the reactor. there's also little chance of the molten salts leaking into the environment depositing radioactive particles, or causing fallout.

They do, however, have a certain cost-related issue by being prototype designs, no real r&d going into them (relatively) the salts are expensive (to maintain in a liquid form) and the possibility of the salts solidifying within the tubes clogging up the cooling circuit.

@donut: have one captureable reactor with the other 3 being in various stages of construction (construction pack).

[yikitama]

The basic layout looks VERY similar to what i had in mind, hahaha.