Fluidic Power deprecated


Overhauls the power network to use the game's built-in fluid system in an attempt to make electricity more realistic. Adds working transformers for high power transmission, and creates various new and interesting power distribution challenges. Similar to the mods Flow Network and High Voltage, but significantly different by being the first mod that uses no on-tick power calculations. This means the UPS impact should be minimal for non-gigantic bases.

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6 months ago
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b [Fixed] Substations don't appear to be able to use more than 60MW

6 months ago
(updated 6 months ago)
6 months ago

Hello! Oof, this is the part of the code that I don't like touching, but it will need some investigation. My initial thought was that it was fluid-box limitations, but it in that case it would not have shown the maximum generation as 60MW too. Could be that I set up the generator's parameters wrong or something.

6 months ago

Have you been able to look at this yet?

6 months ago

Yeah, sorry was a little distracted this week. And I found the issue quickly, but had to think about what the consequences might be. But it's fixed now. Turns out the fluidbox of the hidden generator was not big enough to receive enough fluid every tick to be able to generate the 100MW. So I just increased the fluidbox size. That has the side-effect that it's now a bigger buffer, but that's unavoidable.

Thanks again for the report! My Github CoPilot even suggested to me to add your name to the changelog entry XD
Let me know if it's causing any other issues :)

6 months ago
(updated 6 months ago)

I experience a similar issue, even with the new version.
You can refer to the following simple test save: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UkB8jQD598HBLv1tnyPlGelPsByxeyJv/view?usp=sharing

You can see the transformers run at 100% (utilization mod) but not enough power is delivered. However, if you remove the transformers, still not enough power is delivered. So not sure the throughput issue is resolved for the substations and I think the transformers also have a throughput issue.

Note: I do believe that with the new version, the % utilization for the substations dropped from 100% to around 50%.

Edit: This save seems to work smoothly, but notice the transformers are running at 75% to deliver a little over 75MW.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AzSTRy5CIy8SDo7hq7BtqXxE5EOnBqjy/view?usp=sharing

Edit 2: I finally realize the transformer is rated for 50MW. Sorry for the bad report here.

6 months ago

No worries :)

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