Anyone using Satisfactory construction game.

[mjs warlord]

ok so i am posting here because nobody on the games q and a page has answered me.

I am only consuming 23,000 mw of power because until the devs add something new to the game all my production lines are on stand by , the only machines using power are those required to run for the production of electricity.

I only have 20 nuclear power stations but they are all turned off.
I have all the geothermal nodes producing free power.
I have all the oil nodes producing oil to make fuel for generators , apart from a few nodes used for production lines.
I have hundreds of coal power stations in block off 20.
None of the coal power or oil generators run out of anything.

So here is my problem .... i look at power poles and i am producing 111,800 mw every so often it drops down to around 110,000 mw and i have seen it go as low as 109,000 mw. This means my electricity being produced is varying by around 2,800 mw ???

I have gone round every single batch of machines and sat watching the status lights for a very long time , none of them stopped working so this indicates all ok so how could i be loose up to 2,800 mw

 

[Brian Boru]

my electricity being produced is varying by around 2,800 mw

I haven't played the game, but…

I have all the geothermal nodes producing free power

…could it be the geo nodes vary in output, since they're based on nature's whims, I assume?

Could there be variable loss thru leakage in the transmission lines?

 

[mjs warlord]

Hi Brian i checked geothermal outputs , when i made them all i turned them on and just walked away from them , i never realised their power output went up and down. So taking into account i was using them all thats the reason power was going up and down so much. I have deleted them all and power available has gone down from 110k mw to a stabble 108k mw. That still a ton more than i need and nuke power is still turned off

 

[ZedClampet]

Could there be variable loss thru leakage in the transmission lines?

Players would riot if they added that to the game without some way to counter it. I'm a very relaxed player, but most others would have an obsessive/compulsive meltdown.

 

[mjs warlord]

For those of you not familiar with the game you can make something called power storage units and you link them into your grid. I always tell people that once they are charged up you should never see them work again and if you do then thats a sign you have a problem somewhere . Blown fuses usually occur in the early stages or when you only just have enough power to keep things going , if you had some machines on stand by and they all kick in together you might not have enough power on tap so that will cause fuses to blow.