I’m only 60 hours in, but i just found out that multiple generators connected to a power pole increases its capacity - i assumed poles were capped at 75Watts.

Found this out after bringing over a whole bunch of power poles from one side of the map to my oil factories im building.

Then found out coal generators can run on petroleum coke and i didnt need to bring power over from my coal factories.

Dam i love this game lol

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Oh man, the biggest grid failure I ever had was, I deleted a single power pole that looked redundant. It wasn’t, and it cut off half of an entire coal plant. 28 coal generators were now powering their own two coal miners, their own water collectors, a single limestone miner and three concrete constructors. Most of the power they made wasn’t going anywhere, and the power grid was now short by about 2GW. Power storage plus the two biofuel generators on the HUB kept things running for a surprisingly long time; I had oil power and hydrothermal up as well, and I’d only cut off half that coal plant, not the whole one. But eventually the entire grid collapsed. Trains were crashing into each other, it took awhile to figure out what had gone wrong.

  • Bosht@lemmy.world
    6·
    25 days ago

    Man I wish I could play this game for the first time again. Best of luck with your run!