Selling power/electricity
planned
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Yvonne Borst
People already share their power when they install it, so neighbours can use it too. Both mechanical and electric. If it's made sellable, it's bad for cooperating gameplay.
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Dennis Scholz
Merged in a post:
Personalize your Power Grid
RedmoonIndustries
Allow the device that produces mechanical or electrical power to be only usable by the owner's devices. Probably set up a profile ie "Jim's Power" and as long as you change "everyone" to "Jim's Power" as allowable, it would only apply to that particular power grid.
Konstantin Barzilovich
It would be great to add electrical wiring system, which allows to make hidden wiring inside the walls. So you could power individual devices and lamps in your house. It will increase complexity of building and add engineering aspect to it.
Possible implementation:
You can apply wire item on the building block (any building material, but not natural blocks like rock or dirt). While applying the wire, you determine what two sides of the block you want to connect with the wire. It can be opposite sides as well as adjacent sides.
This system allows to add switches, which cut off power line. Splitters are easy to implement as wire with 3 connected sides instead of two.
So many opportunities. Even basic logic systems with AND and OR devices to make lights blinking.
Dave247
This would need to also come as part as a bigger rework as to how power grids work and operate I would imagine, in a way so that you can separate grids somehow which will probably be the biggest change functional wise.
Chrescerya Chrescerya
This should also remove the auto connection of any machines to the grid.
Something that could work really well:
- Have a junction box item added to electronics allowing to connect a plot to an electric grid. Junction boxes have a maximum throughput, meaning if too many machines are connected to it (present on the plot) they won't work and an additional junction box is required to upgrade the amount of power the plot can use.
- Have an industrial junction box item added to connect a power producing item to a grid. This box is also used to create a new Power Grid.
- Electric poles works in a similar way as boats with mooring poles. You can check what Power Grids are in range and connect the power pole to it, this means that you could have 5 poles running along the same street being 5 different power grids.
Power grids can use the rent option like on work tables, you can pay a fix price per hour and/or price per W/kW consumed. This would allow to simulate the cost for network maintenance and expansion (fixed cost) + operating costs.
This would bring a lot of realism to a power grid, add possible blackouts if people overload the network as well as give freedom to users to either self produce and setup their local grid themselves or join up a much larger grid and pay whatever the owner decides is fair.
Aldemar
this is great!
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Dennis Scholz
planned
This feature is planned and would come with authorization for power.
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DaveVonMatterhorn
This would be an amazing feature. It would give players a reason to build more power generation. Add on buying power too so that there aren't some players that are connecting 100 oil rigs to the global grid making everyone struggle while they don't contribute to the PG&D