How to Fix the Power Grid | Tutorial | Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Guides
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2021
- Flickering lights at night? No Power warnings? Unhappy citizens? Factories that don't produce? Trains that run at lower speeds? Electrical Issues? This tutorial should help you to diagnose your electrical power grid issues.
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Power management is a lot of fun once you figure everything out. Most games make it too easy.
I'm glad we don't have to care about the frequency, too. :)
Lol, yeah, please let's add real physics to the game! JK, that would probably be the nail in the coffin for 90% of players ;)
Ssshhh - the developers might be listening! :-)
Thank you! The oscillating voltage is exactly the problem I have.
Such a good video! And yes, it all makes sense. Trains just cannot use electricity consistently
Omg I left playing for this thank you for tutorial.
Perfect, I am just heared the first 20 seconds, and I am absolutely right here ^^
Oh damn this is cool! I play games for the funz, not to be work, and a game that is too tough is just work so screw it...but I love the fact that this game is actually realistically showing you the power draw of a train going UPHILL vs not. These new overlays are AMAZING! Back in 2020 I got fed up with not understanding where I was failing with this game...but these new overlays?? Now I'm excited to get back into it!
Another good tutorial - thank you sir!
Thanks very much for another masterpiece of explanation.
You made my day.
ok, so if your coal production was connected directly to the global power grid instead of connecting to the power station and you simply had the oil power plant also connected to the global power grid would that also be fine? In other words, connect power plants to the power grid and nothing but a substation to the power producer. Then the power is shared globally. Would this also help?
Not quite...as long as the Total consumption of your grid is below the capacity of the smallest main wire, yes, that would be true, but the biggest HV line can only carry 18MW ...you will need to add more inputs to the network, if you want to be able to supply more power from only a few sources (centralized power grid), otherwise, if you would only use local power, you shouldn't run into issues.
Tank you a lot for your tutorials
I'm confused with the electric substations. And you mention it also in your video but it's confusing. I try to explain what I mean:
In the MW-overlay a substation shows around 0.34 megawat (still green). But when you click on the substation it says:
''Total wattage of all connected buildings'': 350%
''Estimated maxiimum consumption'': 128%
This is what's confusing me can some one explain please? Is this overloaded and if so how?
Thanks.
The colors are current consumption, so they fluctuate, the numbers in the station are static numbers calculated by all connected buildings, i.e. the max. The max may get split over multiple substations evenly, that's the second number in the station, their share of the max.
@@bballjo
I think I understand what it means but please can you be more specific to the below example?
Overlay: 0.34Mw
''Total wattage of all connected buildings'': 350%
''Estimated maxiimum consumption'': 128%
Is this overloaded? What number decides if this needas an aditional substation or not?
Certainly.
Overlay: 0.34Mw-> That is what is currently going across the wire. That could be the current demand, it could be the total wire capacity (they have a max, but the lowest is 0.6 i think, so you should be good), it could also be what you have left in your power network, the large HV wire can only carry 18MW, if you are producing that much.
''Total wattage of all connected buildings'': 350% -> All buildings in range of the substation (hover over the connections, or when you place a substation right on top of this one, all the yellow lines). The substation tells you the max watts, I think its 2.5MW that it can use. 350% * 2.5 = 8.75MW.
''Estimated maxiimum consumption'': 128% -> is the share of this substation from the 350% above, so 128% * 2.5 = 3.2MW. Having this number means there are other substations that have some of the same buildings in their range.
Note, that the substations Maximum is bigger than any of the medium wires, the biggest wire is 2.35 MW, but the substation is 2.5MW, so at 100% you may still be under-powered, HOWEVER:
In cities, its OK to run between 100-150%, because power is demand driven, meaning power is only used when citizens are here, if they arent at home, no power is used.
For industries, you want to stay below 100%, because ideally you want to run your industries at full capacity all the time.
Does that make sense?
@@bballjo
Yes a little bit better, thanks.
So I'm looking at the estimated maximum consumption for cities to stay between 100-150% and for Industries stay below 100%.
One more thing though.
The substation of my example has several connections of buildings that are not build yet. Do these buildings that are not build yet affect the numbers?
Cheers!
How did you manage to make the night scenes so clearly visible on CZcams? They're usually invisible late at night like that because of the darkness and how CZcams reacts. Things look more or less like a big black blob. But not when you do it. How did you do that? Excellent Job and please teach us your ways!
I don't know that I did anything:(
nice!
great tuto I suppose; for me: far too complicated and obscure with numbers coming one after the other. 6mn later my head is full of watt and still don't know what's causing the problem. I get the colours of line give clues; good start. keep on the good job !
Thanks for the feedback! I assumed it was just simple addition, but there is just a lot of it...
You said something like "The Power flows like a river and can only go through one direction". Does it mean i can´t connect multiple power plants randomly to my network?
My Problem is the follwoing...
Example:
The export switch has 18MW max selling Power ability.
I export 5MW with my oil power plant cause i don´t need it. (direct connection with wires, no power usage from other buildings).
I have 6x big wind power plant (max. 3MW(0,5MW each)) connectet to a tranformator. (only for export).
I now builded a power switch to connect oil power, wind power and export switch.
The switch in front of the export switch is now flickering between 3MW to 18MW ?
Schouldn´t it be between 5MW and 8MW? Cause wind power + oil power is 8MW max and not 18MW????
A video with a stable network of multiple power plants would be cool. I always have problems with flickering network when I add more power plants. Even when I use only 1MW or less for buildings. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? Maybe it is because of the river flow of the electricity???
Correct. I did make a tutorial for exactly this a little while ago...
@@bballjo Is it online? Or will it come in a few days/weeks?
It's online... Maybe 6 or so months old
Well thats a start but in total its a little more complicated, i had two medium voltage "subnets" connected and the game tried to transfer the power through the medium power line instead of the HV connection. So i guess connecting diffrent medium voltage sections is not working either.
I dont think that is true...you can transfer the power however you like, but it will be a one way street while the power is on, like a river...and when power switches direction (source) there is a short period of time without power, call that the reset.
The game doesn't care how you move your power, but you have to supply the capacity...its hard to know exactly what your issues is/was without more info...
Another reason why this game needs power accumulators.
Honestly this game is kinda shitty for $35. You'd think importing electricity would be simple for new players but there's nothing clear to tell you you can't mix your mid and high stations. If I click the import power button and hook it up it should just work...