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I recently got Fusion working on Aquilo. Dealing with normal Nuclear Reactors on Aquilo was a really cool experience, where I needed to add alarms to monitor my ice production/water levels to ensure that power stayed on. I know that the payoff of finishing Aquilo is making power generation easier - but the complexity in the Fusion Reactor practically doesn't exist at all. Fusion fuel cells are dirt cheap, and a single reactor can generate 100 MW with barely any thinking required. This is all compared to regular nuclear, which requires that you actively think about uranium recycling, pipe and turbine placement, water sources, heat... Fusion is literally bootstrap a bit of fluid, put it in a loop, and you're done.

I know it's basically too late to make major recipe changes by now, but I wish there was still some complexity in late game power generation... Perhaps make the bootstrapping process harder? IRL you would need a lot of power to just start the process. Maybe add a requirement that you have 40 MW of power connected to even start the reactor?