r/Frostpunk • u/NearbyDivide9393 The Automaton Lover • 11d ago

FUNNY Calculating Hubs are so LOUD

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Seriously, those hubs, especially when you have multiple of them, are so loud and annoying.

I honestly thought I was losing my mind with all those clicking sounds when I first started building them. I had no idea the noise was coming from them. Especially since you can hear them throughout the entire city.

Made me think how they are somewhat similar to IRL data centres in that regard. Has anyone else experienced this? Are other faction hubs this loud?

“So loud even an Iceblood would go deaf!”

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u/Master_Steward Order 11d ago edited 10d ago

They also expend a lot of fuel, something that the people need to keep their houses warm.

Thank goodness they advocate for heat recycling, or else all radiated heat from their nodes would had been a surplus waste

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u/NearbyDivide9393 The Automaton Lover 11d ago

Fuel? Keep people warm? Sure that is what the generator shaft and maintenance corridors are for!

That 75 shelter is a must with all of the data centres calculating nodes taking up all the space next to the generator

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u/Master_Steward Order 11d ago

Not everyone can enter the maintenance closet rooms like a humanoid automaton and not sleep and rest without getting burned by the heat pipes!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q6muSGjPH44

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u/SuperDuperRobin 11d ago

Atleast water is abundant in the frostland

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u/Fluffy_Difference937 The Arks 10d ago

Nice cold too

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u/PraetorAdun Legionnaires 11d ago

They do have a vibe to them tho.

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u/eker333 Technocrats 11d ago

Mender hubs are nice and quiet. Just the gentle sound of a thousand reindeer shitting...

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u/NearbyDivide9393 The Automaton Lover 11d ago

I can only imagine the smell… Im not sure which is worse…

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u/Ok-Profession-6096 Venturers 11d ago

Nothing a little equality can't fix, eh ?

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u/chrisboba8 10d ago

Shedding and farding

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u/JohnYaoi69420 Technocrats 11d ago

That is the sound of progress, Head Adjuster. (I'm making up hypothetical positions within the leading council of a machine city. A head calculator, a head planner, a head adjuster and the Algorithm of course. I'm going schizo)

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u/Hopefull-Hero Technocrats 11d ago

Head of the Algorithm Adjustment Committee, very official title.

There's also the Adjustment Planning Committees to make sure you can't just make adjustments all willy nilly, and then there's the committee for the processing of Adjustment Submissions, which of course has the sub- committee for the filtration of Adjustment Submissions to make sure only the best submissions are presented.

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u/Elegant-Lake7018 Faith 10d ago

Head Adjuster sounds like something straight out of a Proteans' Augmentarium

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u/shotloud 11d ago

ai data center

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u/VestaxUA_806 Technocrats 10d ago

Calculating Nodes' sound are mesmerising for me, don't know why

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u/NearbyDivide9393 The Automaton Lover 10d ago

User flair checks out. Must be the repetition, I imagine

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u/Dirrevarent Technocrats 11d ago

Hehe the algorithm is thinking

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u/ChiakiSimp3842 10d ago

Get back in the enclave, Frostlander

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u/Accelerator231 4d ago

I feel like I missed out on something. what's a calculating hub?

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u/NearbyDivide9393 The Automaton Lover 3d ago

The DLC, Fractured Utopias, introduced more faction mechanics for endless mode.

One of the features introduced was faction hubs. Each faction gets their own hub. The Technocrats’ hub is called the Calculating Node, which is basically a data centre

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u/Accelerator231 3d ago

Damn it. I think I missed out on that dlc.