I've heard that there are some more situations that can lower the bandwidth pretty drastically: - Every next switch does cut some maximum wattage that goes through it. - Underground wires reduce power by like 50%. - Long distance can reduce some power, but HV lines work fine, as IRL. This means that we should use HV lines going straight to the destination switch, avoiding HV switches if we can. We should avoid having several switches in a row - this would work pretty bad at full loads. It's the most common and harmful mistake. We should avoid using underground power if we can. Our power network should rather look like a beautiful tree: with a tall thick trunk, multiple balanced branches and twigs. No branch should stick out too much. I'm really bad at this game, but some of that info could help to build a better power network, avoiding power losses.

Other useful tips for power distribution: 1. You can connect wind power to your main grid via a transformer. Plug in 6 big windmills, 1 per MV connection and pipe the power out of the transformer to an HV switch. You are now connected with green energy. Green power will be used first and can lessen the load of your coal/nuclear/oil power. 2. Develop a power template. I suggest the following HV Switch ----> Transformer ---> MV Switch --> Substation. 6 MV switches per substation. The reason being is that you will often find you have to destroy/rebuild power connections because you want to run a road or building. This lets you hot swap connections using the MV switches so you don't go without power. Always use no more than 5 of the MV connections on your transformer so you can do the hot swap. The purpose of the HV switch is 2-fold. First, so you can hotswap the entire city network if needed. Second is to fork off your high power lines to continue on. You just need to use the overlays to ensure you have enough power. You can also use HV switches to join or split power grids. 3. If you want to export and import power both, you need to do it at separate facilities. It is even better to simply separate your grids if possible. Use 1 HV connection for your domestic consumption and another for export, for example.

the format and the explanation in your videos is outstanding - thank you

Your style is amazing!!!!

So, the meter on the left is voltage. The game distinguishes 3 different modes of voltage: Low V: 220-230 V. Most buildings are measured as LV and LV is delivered via substations. Medium V: 22-110 kV. You will see this on transformers, switches and substations. MV is delivered via transformers, switches and MV lines (0.5-2.35 MW). A substation acts as an MV -> LV switch. I don't believe any vanilla buildings require a direct MV connection. And finally High V: This will show as 110 kV need on some buildings such as Steel Mill that required a direct HV connection. HV switches and transformers will also show 110 kV.

I think the voltage meter is useful for seeing if there are power problems. Voltage with drop or fluctuate if there is more power demand than supply. Voltage should be constant and maxed out. This is also how the power grid works IRL. Grid operators monitor the voltage and turn on more power production when the voltage drops. In game I have issues with intermittent sources of power like incinerators or wind power messing with the voltage. I use a HV priority switch with the power plant and imported power as imputes to help with the problem, but I wish there were a better way.

Within the last year, after playing Oxygen Not Included, I was telling my wife, I wish there was a builder game like Factorio or Cities Skylines that had a more intricate electrical system. Then I find this game. Obviously, it is very gamified and dumbed down from real power distribution. But, this is still a really good representation of how you would distribute broad scale power. Great video too. To the point. Not too long, not too short.

Nice video. Keep them coming!

Power in this game is so intuitive. You really have to follow a specific approach to mess it up. People who experience issues will typically build 18MW and 2.35MW cables everywhere, and use a ton of splitters. Once issues pop up, they are difficult to pinpoint, because all the cables are the same, and there are way too many MV splitters. They then attempt to fix the situation by building more substations, powering them off the same overloaded cables. To avoid such a situation, I like to use smaller cables further down the line, so that the network is easier to read, and I know not to split too many branches off a smaller cable. I find the power overly completely useless, because power shortages already become apparent during gameplay long before the overlay will show yellow Voltage. Colours on the line are not informative, either, if you ask me. It's best to check the Voltage at your switches instead. If you've built appropriate cables for each connection, you will never need to check the load on the cables, you can just work your way up the line to locate the source of the issue (assuming the issue is not at the power station, which should always be checked before delving too deep into the intricacies of the network).

@candlesinwoodenroom4888

Жыл бұрын

Too complicated and so, too blue. You, comrade, are deported to the off map to blue stars side. Bye forever. In red side lights may flicker, work may stop but overcomplicated science style planning and speech is forbidden.

@adriandraganescu6040

15 күн бұрын

@@candlesinwoodenroom4888 this comment made my day

Very good videos - but imo the music volume is too high. It's hard for me to understand what you're saying.

a bit late to the party, but the voltage and wattage analogy isn't totally wrong. a more realistic way to think about it would be: In really simplified terms, power and voltage in AC can be related by P = V . I, where: P is the power in Watts; V the voltage in Volts and, I is the current in Ampere. Voltage is the electric pressure between the source and the load and, for distribution, and also this game's systems purpose, should be close to constant between transmission levels. The "throughput" you noted on the wattmeter is actually the current varying, like a pressured faucet being opened and letting water flow (P↑ = V . I↑). If you notice the power in the wattmeter peaking, it means the load is drawing a hefty ammount of current, which then increases the resistance of the lines and causes voltage to drop, meaning you need a more capable source or to distribute the load. been binging your videos and loving the content, hope this is somewhat interesting!

I wonder if your interested in creating a series of Workers and Recourses from the beginning! I think with the way you narrate is excellent! I would be very interested in watching since I’m unable to play the game myself. I’m constantly looking for new content on this game!

@Hmuda

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this is something I considered a couple times. However I am a bit burned out on this game right now. Forcing myself to play it for a whole LP series might not be the best idea. After my next video, I will most likely start branching out into other games, and return to this one after I get the itch to play again. Happens ever couple months. :) In the meantime, I recommend you check out two other creators. Bballjo (kzread.info) is pretty much the main guy on YT who deals with this game. He's making tutorial and LP videos regularly. PartyElite (kzread.info) is a more prolific creator, but his series on the game is legendary. He's been building his republic since the game launched, and his series is over 200 episodes long, each around an hour in length.

@68teapot

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hmuda thanks for your reply. I watch both of them too. It’s important to take a rest from the game . If it’s not fun it’s not worth playing. I hope you come back at some point. Best of luck. Teapot68

Could have mentioned how to check how much power each building uses. In the bottom right corner of the megawatt graphic, with the indicator needle, is a number xx.x it is the MW (amount of bandwidth) that a building will consume/produce at maximum occupancy. This MW value is also listed in the tooltip screen when you hover over a building at the build menu.

Saw on reddit thx mate.

Yeah electroboom is such a nice youtuber

Also, you should remember that you can't have more than 19 transformers connected in series. The 20th transformer will simply not work and won't provide any electricity. It's hard-coded into the game!!

In future videos, could you turn the game’s music down a bit? It’s a little overwhelming at times when trying to hear the speaking.

It is also useful to understand that in the vanilla game, 15 MW is the most that can be delivered to a transformer. Transformers have a single HV connection and 6 MV connections with a max 2.5 MW draw.

Спасибо-!!

Oversimplification of course, but this is the way electricity works in real life, they are called: high voltage lines and low voltage lines.

I would like to see proper setup how to use all available electricity from power plant. It says that coal power plant produces like 1400 Mwh of power (I guess it is daily). To convert megawatt hours to megawatts, the number of hours must also be known - lets say it is 24. Divide the number of megawatt hours by the number of hours. The resulting number is the number of megawatts = 1400/24 = 58,333 MW so one coal plant can feed about 3x 18 MW wires (54 MW) but in game it has only 2 high voltage connections but also 4x medium connection wires is 2,35 * = 9,4. So it is 18+18+9,4 = 45,4. It is just weird. If you split one high voltage into 2 to have 3 high voltages (54 MW) it means you can use 4,3 MW more that means almost 2 medium 2,35W or 2,35 with weaker 1,5MW to have 54+2,35+1,5MW = 57,85MW which is basically the limit of coal power plant. Is that right?

Hey! Just wanted to let you know that Voltage isn’t necessarily the amount of power produced, but the amount of power produced relative to demand If you hook some renewable energy sources up to an export station and crank the output up to 100%, you can see that power output in watts is incredibly unstable *and* that the voltage is ~0. In order to drive electricity, like in real life, you need a relatively higher total power produced on one end to power going out on the other end, and the only way to reliably manage that for non-border points is controlling how much wattage is used in certain regions.

@4:40 What do you mean „instead of the four the new branch…“. Instead of what? And what new branch?

I don't see the wires showing wattage now. Did something change?

how good is the availability of wind or solar? if i set my game to always day does the solar provide good ammount all the time? what about wind? never realy payed much attention to weather...

@Hmuda

Жыл бұрын

Sadly it's not really a good way to make power in the game. Just like in real life, the main obstacle for renewables is storage. There are no batteries in the game. I don't know how an always-day playthrough would be like for solar, never gave it a go. Wind power is a decent stopgap measure for far-away areas that require very little power, but cannot be relied on for constant supply.

@ELXatrix

Жыл бұрын

@@Hmuda so might be ok for a farm or mine...maybe i try that on a starter village with some basic essentials and see if that lasts me till something biger is build...

500 hrs into the game and I still have the impression that voltage is useless and the only thing that counts is wattage. I always look at wattage only and because its the only thing whose estimated consumption is indicated in substations I really don't see the point in looking at voltage. Please correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing out on smth :D

@Hmuda

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest, same here. There might be some remote edge cases where it might be relevant, but I cannot think of one. I mostly just use voltage in the overlays to check where can I see some yellow or red indicators.

@robertmazur6451

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the reply! I'll research this question on the steam forums and on the game's discord and I'll let you know if I find something out

@dazkaz15

2 жыл бұрын

Voltage is electrical push and decays over distance. If you run your lines too far you should see the voltage start to flicker and buildings at the end of the line might suffer brownouts. The high voltage wires will push the electric current further than the thin medium voltage lines. You need to make your electric grid like a tree, feeding the medium voltage branches, with a big thick trunk of high voltage line.

What I dont understand is how a powerplant can produce so much, but only have one or two connections for large power lines. At max you can only move 18-36mW when power plants produce so much more. How does this work?

@emzudemde8283

Жыл бұрын

You need to use the switches I think

@HanakoSeishin

Жыл бұрын

It works by reading the correct number, then you will see that the coal power plant produces 24 MW of power (listed under "maximum wattage"). The 1400 MWh per day is a totally useless number that you should not be looking at.

Hello, do you remeberwhat is the name of this map? Thanks!

@Hmuda

10 ай бұрын

IIRC, it was this one: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880981708 It's been a very long time, and I don't have the save file, so I cannot really check 100%, but what little I remember, it does seem to match.

@ordinaryfolks7475

10 ай бұрын

@@Hmuda thank you!