Cheese's Concentrated Solar


Adds concentrated solar energy based around heliostat mirrors, which can point at solar power towers to generate heat for heliothermal energy production, or solar lens towers to generate giant lasers.

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a month ago
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g Does this not support space age?

15 days ago

The towers dont seem to take a planet's solar multiplier into account

15 days ago

Yes it does. Click on the towers gui, you will see t requires less mirrors to operate fully - solar mult effects mirrors, not towers.

15 days ago
(updated 15 days ago)

That doesnt seem to be the case. Its 546 and the power generation per mirror is identical regardless of surface. Using 16 mirrors on one tower, I get 1.76MW of generation during daytime regardless of which surface its placed on

15 days ago

Oh I see, very weird - this always worked with space exploration. Each surface has a solar power multiplier, but it appears the space age planets don't support this (any more? I could swear this worked in the beta).

15 days ago

My apologies for being wrong, and also that fixing this appears to be very non trivial. The description of solar calc (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/solar-calc) has a little explination about why this is an issue, and I have submitted an API request on the forum, as the solution solar calc uses to find the actual solar multiplier is way too complicated and fragile looking for me to be happy with.

15 days ago

Ah thats a shame. Maybe as a stopgap you could define/enumerate multipliers for each planet in the settings? The day/night cycle is working properly, its just the multiplier thats off. Its easy to get the name/type of the surface at least so it wouldnt be too much work to just manually enter the multipliers from factoriopedia

15 days ago

Not a bad idea, will make some kind of stopgap if I have some time this weekend.

14 days ago

The only screwy thing is platforms lol

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