[DEVs pls read] How to turn Osiris into a SCIENCEfiction game :)

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This will be a long post, but I started to love this game so much and I’d like to make a few suggestions about the science aspects in Osiris, plus I wanted to cover several things that are related to science in general, so pls bear with me.Osiris is a scifi game and even though it is fiction, there is also science. The genre itself is quite diverse and there are very different approaches in scifi with more fiction and less science and the other way around, inbetween lots of variations.Osiris clearly has the pretense to have science that is somewhat realistic. The HUD, respectively the character overview delivers solid data as we might expect, but even content is somewhat realistic, e.g. resources and their processing, as well as synthesis of certain products.Not sure if any of you know these things or have bothered to check them out, so I’ll give you a quick overview about the chemistry in Osiris. As you might have noticed, all the elements used are real, except for Azurnium. Most of these elements do not occur in these high degrees of purity naturally, but for a scifi game this is totally fine. I would not want to spend hours refining aluminum just to have a more realistic game. But the devs certainly are interested in adding realism, e.g. the chemistry table which allows to craft rubber and plastic, using carbon, hydrogen, and chlorine as reactants.From a very basic point of view, plastics are made of carbon and hydrogen mostly, some have a certain percentage of chlorine, oxygen and nitrogen as well. Plastics with chlorine are quite common. Synthetic rubber is made from styrene and butadiene mostly, very few use chloroprene as an alternative reactant. So, actually, it is the wrong way around in Osiris. Rubber should just use carbon and hydrogen for crafting, plastic should use carbon, hydrogen and chlorine.1) Simple changes: add chlorine as ingredient for plastic, and remove chlorine from rubber2) Complicated: add different kinds of plastic, using chlorine, oxygen and nitrogen, allowing to craft three (or more) different types of plastics for different uses and either add another rubber variant (one using chlorine, one without chlorine -or simply remove chlorine as an ingredient for rubber)Wire uses rubber, copper and gold. Typical copper cables in real life consist of copper and can be plated to reduce oxidation, mostly with tin, but silver and gold are also used. In Osiris we use rubber as insulator – which was used in real life as well during the 19th century mostly. But with the discovery of PE, PVC, PUR, and PTFE we use those materials instead. PTFE is mainly used for aircraft engines, the others are used for pretty much else. We still use rubber, but only for cables that experience higher temperatures and higher mechanical strain than usual, but it has been replaced by silicone which can operate in a temparture range between -50°C and 150°C, mainly used in steelmaking machinery, ships, electric motors and airplanes.I’d suggest rubber is exchanged with plastic or plastic is added as an additional ingredient.3) Simple change: exchange rubber with plastic as ingredient for wire4) Complicated: add plastic/PTFE/silicone allowing to craft different types of wires for different usageCircuit board uses plastic, gold and lithium. Bakelite plastic boards were used during the 30s/40s, multiwire boards had plastic resin as non-conducting matrix. These days for PCBs we use FR-4, which is basically epoxy resin with glass fabric reinforcement and a flame retardant. Epoxy resins are also polymers/plastic materials but their special characteristics are due to epoxide groups which is why oxygen should be part of the synthesis.Gold is used for PCBs, but lithium is not. Maybe this is the component for a tiny battery that is part of the board, idk, but there are so many great uses for lithium , I think we can find something else to use it for.5) Simple change: add oxygen as an ingredient6) Complicated: add epoxide resin as crafting material (C+H+O) which then is used instead of plastic7) Optional: replace lithium with something that makes sense; find another use for lithium insteadSteel requires iron as main ingredient. Depending on what kind of steel you want, you add other elements. Carbon steel (Fe+C) is what we have in real life in most cases. Some other elememts may be added to have alloy steel (chromium, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese) but I would not bother with these things. Aluminum can be added to create a strong light aluminum steel alloy, which was actually just discovered last year. I’d say that’s a pretty good choice for Osiris as well.However, magnesium is not used in steel production – it just doesn’t work.But there are lots of magnesium alloys, main alloying elemts are aluminum, copper, lead, lithium, manganese, thorium, zinc, nickel – just to name a few. Magnalium (Al+Mg+Ni), Birmabrigh (Al+Mg) are used for automobile/aircraft parts, Mag-Thor (Mg+Th) for aerospace engineering.8) Simple change: remove magnesium as ingredient for steel, replace with carbon9) Complicated: remove magnesium from steel, use it for different alloys instead in combination with aluminum and another ingredient like thorium or nickelLet’s take a look at complex liquids. PXC stimulant is fiction, all the other stuff is real. There is not much to explain:10) Phencyclidine: replace wild fungus with nitrogen; while it is an anesthetic/drug it is entirely synthetic and can not be found in plants/mushrooms11) Flourine: spelling -> Fluorine12) Flourescence: spelling -> Fluorescence: fluorine and fluorescence have absolutelyin common. Fluorine is not fluorescent and not a single fluorescent material has fluorine as a component, not even in nature. Also, fluorescence can not be synthesized, since it is emission of light. One can not craft emission of light and store it inside a container, nor is it a liquid. You can have a fluorescent liquid, but that is a rather broad term ;)I’d recommend to take a look at the fluorescence article in order to find a chemical that either has a real life application (much like every other substance we have so far) or add a fictional substance that is at least based on real life science, but pls don’t call it fluorescence, because that is a physical phenomenon and not a material :)Also, there is so much interesting chemistry that can be done with fluorine , for example PTFE which I already suggested as an additional material. Here is an overview of fluorine compounds and if you like to use already existing Osiris-elements, I’d pick iron(III) fluoride, which is used in production of ceramics, allowing to add another interesting material used in aerospace engineering among other applications.13) Use chemical formula instead of substance names: H2O, N2H4, HCl. Much easier to read. For more complex substances like phencyclidine (C17H25N) use the official abbreviation, in this case PCP.14) You really want to change the C° into °C for temperature. Also, when displaying temperature like that, you don’t need to add a ° behind the numbers. You already state that the temparature measured is in °C so just display the numbers. Right now it says 22.3° C° and when corrected it would say 22.3° °C which is also wrong. Just display numbers only, and the °C inside the circle.15) The suit pressure has a ° which should be removed. I’m also not a fan of PSI, I’d rather use pascal (Pa or kPa) because using SI units in scifi is sexy imho, but I guess that is asking too much.16) If you want more science, you might want to replace HYD and NTR with something else. Hydration can not be measured directly, as of there is no unit to measure dehydration, but one can test urine concentration or blood sodium concentration and with these values one can determine some sort of value for hydration. I assume the suit tech is advanced enough to do so, and can detect water-electrolyte imbalance by simply analyzing blood and/or urine. Sodium levels are measured in milliequivalents per liter [mEq/L], urine concentration test results are more complex. Since you already use %O2 for oxygen, I’d recommend to use %H2O for hydration. Instead of NTR you could use cal, which is the unit used to describe the chemical energy that can be derived from food. However, the SI unit is kilojoule (kJ) and science is trying to replace cal during the next decades because it isn’t really a handy unit.17) HLTH and SUIT are a bit squeezed, no suggestions here, but you might want to change that by using less letters, different abbreviations or simply moving that circle to the outer left – that way, the distortion should magnify everything a bit.18) You might want to take a look at temperature and pressure circles, their numbers and their colors. Also HYD/NTR/HLTH/SUIT circles have different colors, but it is not clear which circle is which. Maybe the texts are in a different color, but I can’t tell from looking at it at all.Other than that, I’m quite happy with this game. Pls consider some of my suggestions and fix these minor errors. I think Osiris has the potential to become a solid scifi game and it would be great to see details (like the things I mentioned in this post) that are backed by science. Even though this is scifi, meaning no limit to imagination, ppl do enjoy the actual science, which is why in contemporary literature/film scientists are consulted to advice and back up creative work with actual, real data/findings/theories.ʕ༼◕ ౪ ◕✿༽ʔ19) Weight is measured in kg. We say "kilograms" but the plural "s" is not part of the unit.20) Carbon nanotubes : great material with lots of interesting applications. I'd suggest to add this as a new ingredient for crafting.21) Aerogel could also be added, since it has very interesting properties and would work well with the current element/material variety.22) Added more suggestions based on current changes to mining.23) Absolute zero is at 0 Kelvin = −273,15 °C and there is no way it can get colder :)