illiterate generator

[Jet]

Is there any way to get power outside of a generator? Because I picked the illiterate trait, cant read the manual, and power just ran out

[Dankstein]

Best you can do is create a new character on the same world, have him connect the generator to your base then resume playing with your main character.

[Animalman]

Wait are there not locations where Generators are already switched on and connected?
You just won't be able to move.
I don;t know if that is the case.
In Single Player i am sure it isn't the case. Even for the Generators at the checkpoint.
Though in Multiplayer you can get someone over to help

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Animalman:

Wait are there not locations where Generators are already switched on and connected?
You just won't be able to move.
I don;t know if that is the case.
In Single Player i am sure it isn't the case. Even for the Generators at the checkpoint.
Though in Multiplayer you can get someone over to help

Not afaik. Maybe later on the bigger generators might be used for something that are present here and there and thus are unmovable, but currently there are no attached generators to buildings.

The only way to learn to operate generators while being illiterate is to have the electrician background.(Which should not be possible, as quite a number of stuff is required to know:P)
What could be done though that instead of illiterate, we could add some more common foreign languages.
Like say character does not speak/read english, only spanish, and the hunt for the spanish how to operate the generators quest could begin:D

I am not that knowledgeable about the languages present in KY in the 90-s, but i am sure that about 3-5 such could be used. (Also adding flavour to multiplayer a bit:D The korean tourist, the spanish farmer, the german electrician and the american golfer meet up in a house:D Figure out how to work together. If the language would be scrambled until they learn the language...would be even more hillarious:D)

[Animalman]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Animalman:

Wait are there not locations where Generators are already switched on and connected?
You just won't be able to move.
I don;t know if that is the case.
In Single Player i am sure it isn't the case. Even for the Generators at the checkpoint.
Though in Multiplayer you can get someone over to help

The only way to learn to operate generators while being illiterate is to have the electrician background.(Which should not be possible, as quite a number of stuff is required to know:P)
What could be done though that instead of illiterate, we could add some more common foreign languages.
Like say character does not speak/read english, only spanish, and the hunt for the spanish how to operate the generators quest could begin:D

thats a really smart way to replace Illiterate its a good idea.
No Anglais!

I asked Co-Pilot AI about what the term should be it said

"The term you’re looking for is “illiterate”. It is used to describe someone who cannot read. However, if you specifically mean someone who cannot understand a spoken language, there isn’t a direct equivalent term. In that case, you might describe them as “non-fluent” or “not proficient” in the language they are unable to understand "

[Animalman]

Corr you sparked me off now m8

To pay off Illiterate by listening to all of the Audio CD's and VHS in how to speak english

[Coolranch]

Do I understand correctly that you can only use generators if you have read the manual or have the Electrician occupation?? Simply gaining Electrical levels doesn't allow you to use a generator??

IRL an illiterate person could hypothetically understand basic electricity and electronics, though on the other hand, I would think that illteracy should probably limit your max Electrical level because at some point you're going to need some degree of reading to handle more advanced concepts.

[Animalman]

Originally posted by Coolranch:

Do I understand correctly that you can only use generators if you have read the manual or have the Electrician occupation?? Simply gaining Electrical levels doesn't allow you to use a generator??

IRL an illiterate person could hypothetically understand basic electricity and electronics, though on the other hand, I would think that illteracy should probably limit your max Electrical level because at some point you're going to need some degree of reading to handle more advanced concepts.

they was looking at the concept of Watch and Learn.
Where you will be able to at least for MP, your friend can have a skill you can watch and pick up the skill. For single player would have to wait for NPC before we could meet an NPC that could do something in front of us which we can acquire the skill from.
This would apply to How to Use Generators
as they design for a world where potentially all the books have been burnt or degraded. And there is no power at all for a TV or VHS. and knowledge is lost.
For example, How to build the Table and Drawer currently we all know how. But in the future it may be subject to loss. That is if somebody didn't pass the knowledge down to another character then they can no longer build the table and drawer at all. It no longer exist.

[Dankstein]

Originally posted by Coolranch:

Do I understand correctly that you can only use generators if you have read the manual or have the Electrician occupation?? Simply gaining Electrical levels doesn't allow you to use a generator??

IRL an illiterate person could hypothetically understand basic electricity and electronics, though on the other hand, I would think that illteracy should probably limit your max Electrical level because at some point you're going to need some degree of reading to handle more advanced concepts.

You can be an illiterate electrician and be able to use generations, it's just two mechanics cancelling each other out creating this problem.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Coolranch:

Do I understand correctly that you can only use generators if you have read the manual or have the Electrician occupation?? Simply gaining Electrical levels doesn't allow you to use a generator??

IRL an illiterate person could hypothetically understand basic electricity and electronics, though on the other hand, I would think that illteracy should probably limit your max Electrical level because at some point you're going to need some degree of reading to handle more advanced concepts.

Correct.
Being illiterate would not prohibit you from performing some stuff. But would still kill you eventually. There are signs that are used for the common stuff, but not for everything.

For instance not being able to read which wire to use, which wire to connect, whether that wire is good, has the appropriate width and such.
So using say a wire that is by 2 categories smaller than what should be used for your house means that likely you will burn it down quite fast.

But this game allows you to be an illiterate electrician as I said and Dankstein as well.

[AbsynthMinded]

The just need to make it a rare CD or VHS Tape to obtain the basic skills. Simple as.

[Silamon]

I still think you should be able to power on a generator and plug things into it without the generator skill. You don't need to be an electrician to hit a power button and plug something into the generator...

Just give it a very small radius and disable repairing the generator without the skill book.

[Prowler™]

Some rare VHS tapes contain recipes and skills but other than that without starting as electrician you will never be able to learn generators with illiterate.
Its just a roleplay trait but the entire traits tree needs an overhaul. Many negative traits are actually great and positive traits are bad. This has been an issue for years tho so you may just want to mod your traits list to have a bigger mix of choices.

[Coolranch]

I would be surprised if the generator stuff wasn't totally overhauled in the future. I think what makes sense is having the generator manual to allow unskilled use of the generator (for literate characters ), but once you have Electrical skill, you are capable of repairing generators. It doesn't make sense that you can repair it but not operate it.

imo, it would make more sense if level 1 Electrical allowed you to use it and maybe even require level 2 or so to repair.

[Jet]

Originally posted by Cat Supremacist SM:

Nope, but power isn't necessary.

how do you keep food from spoiling in 2 days then?

[pzhda'tan]

Generators are overrated anyway. The only thing you would really need one for is keeping your food fresh and get gas from gas stations.
Go on fishing trips and get fresh fish, problem solved. Siphon gas out of trashed cars, problem solved. Don't ever need to bother with the electrical skill or a generator and its goofy ass rare manual.