Power Goes out super soon regardless of sandbox settings

[Grimm Spector]

I set it to 2-6 months, it goes out in the first two weeks EVERY ()#$%*)* time!

[GΔЯGØYLΞ'ร BITE]

Single player or mp?

[Silamon]

Its not so bad living without power, mine cut out on the second day and I am up to 3 months in game.

I have found and brought 4 generators to my base so far, plenty of gas for em.

But no generator manual so still in the dark

[Λ E O N]

may be another active mod messing with this setting?

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Ocular.:

Single player or mp?

Multiplayer, it's literally 12 days in this time ffs.

Originally posted by Silamon:

Its not so bad living without power, mine cut out on the second day and I am up to 3 months in game.

I have found and brought 4 generators to my base so far, plenty of gas for em.

But no generator manual so still in the dark :theskull:

Yeah none of us have been able to find a generators book in the whole map so far.

Originally posted by AEON:

may be another active mod messing with this setting?

I don't have any mods that modify sandbox settings at all. We have ones that give more traits, one that makes trait descriptions better, and hydrocraft.

[Grimm Spector]

Part of the issue is the wiki is super out of date, if you make a local game there is no minimum time before shut off, and the other settings aren't necessarily accurate to the descriptions on a bunch of stuff. So we have no idea what the actual impact of the settings are anymore but the RNG can and does just keep screwing us super early it seems unless setting 4 is turn it off after a freakin week.

[GΔЯGØYLΞ'ร BITE]

So you're on multiplayer. I believe enigma said something about the settings being different for mp. So you likely think you're setting it for months but instead you're setting it for days. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this was pointed out before for other mp settings.

Hope you get it figured out though :)

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Ocular.:

So you're on multiplayer. I believe enigma said something about the settings being different for mp. So you likely think you're setting it for months but instead you're setting it for days. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this was pointed out before for other mp settings.

Hope you get it figured out though :)

The multiplayer settings let you pick the exact day it seems. Leaving it on the default 14 is exactly 2 weeks. Setting it 1 turns it off exactly 1 day later. I did some testing for that specifically. It's kind of annoying imo, I liked to have it be randomized.

I am kinda thinking about just cheating in a generator manual. 3 months in game and looted all of muldraugh, checked all the libraries, all the mail boxes, every bookshelf in town and still no manual. Either they lowered the chances, I got seriously screwed by rng, or its bugged somehow x.x

[Wanderer]

We got lucky with a generator magazine in one of the houses in Muldraugh but they are very hard to find.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Its not so bad living without power, mine cut out on the second day and I am up to 3 months in game.

I have found and brought 4 generators to my base so far, plenty of gas for em.

But no generator manual so still in the dark :theskull:

thats life, when you have everything after 3 months but you are still too dumb to use generators xDDD i wish there would be a trait for 4 points that give me that ability

[Psycha]

Originally posted by Grizzly:

Originally posted by Silamon:

Its not so bad living without power, mine cut out on the second day and I am up to 3 months in game.

I have found and brought 4 generators to my base so far, plenty of gas for em.

But no generator manual so still in the dark :theskull:

thats life, when you have everything after 3 months but you are still too dumb to use generators xDDD i wish there would be a trait for 4 points that give me that ability

Or wish the devs actually thought of our characters as learning human beings.. I'd be able to tinker with a piece of equipment and learn the ins and outs over time.

[GΔЯGØYLΞ'ร BITE]

Imagine not knowing how to use a generator

[[²³²Th] Genesis]

Originally posted by Ocular.:

Imagine not knowing how to use a generator

I agree turning on the generator and fueling it should not require a special knowledge magazine.
But the maintenance OTOH is something most people wouldn't be able to figure out even if they stare at a generator for 2 weeks.

[Rincewind]

For Mp there is a minimum setting now too that i also didn´t saw before starting the MP game and was surprised that power goes off after a month but i had setting it for 6-14 months.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Rincewind:

For Mp there is a minimum setting now too that i also didn´t saw before starting the MP game and was surprised that power goes off after a month but i had setting it for 6-14 months.

What's the minimum setting? The only one I see is "ElecShutModifier" which doesn't appear in the non dedicated server files. No clue what it's for. The default is 14 ... which is suspiciously like when the freakin power show off...

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Grimm Spector:

Originally posted by Rincewind:

For Mp there is a minimum setting now too that i also didn´t saw before starting the MP game and was surprised that power goes off after a month but i had setting it for 6-14 months.

What's the minimum setting? The only one I see is "ElecShutModifier" which doesn't appear in the non dedicated server files. No clue what it's for. The default is 14 ... which is suspiciously like when the freakin power show off...

Yes, you are setting the exact number of days, no rng on multi server.

I tested a few different games and it shut of on exactly the same time every run.

I set both to 1, both shut off the same time 1 day later. Set both to 2, both shut off 2 days after start.

I am fairly confident the number you put in is just the exact time it lasts.