Devs don't know how electronics work

[Varlun]

First of all, cars have alternators. Car should regenerate some electric power as long as the engine is running- enough to slowly charge the battery with the headlights running.

Second, if you look at the charging station, the batteries are hooked up all wrong. First of all they're hooked up in sequence, rather than in parallel, which would serve to provide more power for LONGER rather than giving a BURST of power, which seems to be the intended idea... given how you throw the lever, and all the lights go out, etc.

And also, you don't mix positives and negatives. The batteries are all chained from positive to negative. Negatives are grounds, they give the electricity the motivation to move. Anyone who's ever jump started a car knows you hook red to red, black to black. The way they're hooked up would cause them all to explode.

[daggaz]

Maybe those little batteries don't have enough voltage each on their own to charge a car battery in under 6 hours, so oppie wired them in series so you could get a high voltage rapid charge when you throw the switch. Who knows, oppie seems pretty smart I'm willing to bet she can fix a carburetor in the dark, or even build a Flux capacitor.

[Varlun]

Mate. Those batteries are hooked red to black. That doesn't work. That's the entire point I'm trying to make. You all have made good points, but my main point stands.

[BRUNO BEEFTIP]

You do realize this isn't a real car, right? It's an alien entity pretending to be a car. It doesn't matter exactly how real cars should work, because this is an alien that doesn't really know how cars work and is simply imitating what it remembers cars acting like before the Zone ruined them all.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by Varlun:

Mate. Those batteries are hooked red to black. That doesn't work. That's the entire point I'm trying to make. You all have made good points, but my main point stands.

It only stands on the grounds of realism, this game and the car and the very world you're in while playing it are not on the grounds of realism any more.

[Varlun]

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

Originally posted by Varlun:

Mate. Those batteries are hooked red to black. That doesn't work. That's the entire point I'm trying to make. You all have made good points, but my main point stands.

It only stands on the grounds of realism, this game and the car and the very world you're in while playing it are not on the grounds of realism any more.

This is an argument in bad faith and you know it. The world is grounded in relaism as much as it can be while introducing these supernatural elements. Those supernatural elements didn't change how basic electronics work.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by Varlun:

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

It only stands on the grounds of realism, this game and the car and the very world you're in while playing it are not on the grounds of realism any more.

This is an argument in bad faith and you know it. The world is grounded in relaism as much as it can be while introducing these supernatural elements. Those supernatural elements didn't change how basic electronics work.

Considering there are anomalies that cause electricity to glue itself to your car parts, a car that I and others have reminded you is not *actually* a car and is an anomaly itself, then yes the zone of Pacific Drive literally does have supernatural elements changing how basic things work especially when the things it's affecting are also supernatural.

[Varlun]

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

Originally posted by Varlun:

This is an argument in bad faith and you know it. The world is grounded in relaism as much as it can be while introducing these supernatural elements. Those supernatural elements didn't change how basic electronics work.

Considering there are anomalies that cause electricity to glue itself to your car parts, a car that I and others have reminded you is not *actually* a car and is an anomaly itself, then yes the zone of Pacific Drive literally does have supernatural elements changing how basic things work especially when the things it's affecting are also supernatural.

This has NOTHING to do with the charging station in the shop.

[Hellhound22014]

Batteries are wired positive to negative(series) to increase the voltage

[PizzaCrunch]

Originally posted by Varlun:

Also true. But that charging station has nothing to do with the car.

It's a magic charging station.

[Abyssal Crow]

Originally posted by Varlun:

Originally posted by Abyssal Crow:

Considering there are anomalies that cause electricity to glue itself to your car parts, a car that I and others have reminded you is not *actually* a car and is an anomaly itself, then yes the zone of Pacific Drive literally does have supernatural elements changing how basic things work especially when the things it's affecting are also supernatural.

This has NOTHING to do with the charging station in the shop.

I said nothing about the charging station in the shop, the car itself is an anomaly, the zone itself is full of anomalies, natural physics and understanding of how something should work does not apply to anomalies. When I mentioned the electricity I was referring to when a electrical anomaly shocks your car, a part can get a charged status effect that visually has electricity constantly arcing around it and pulsing, to avoid a bad time don't get the part wet while it's charged.

Considering anomalies are using electricity in such an unnatural way like this and the car is also an anomaly, you should not be basing real world electronic functions and ideas on them because the car doesn't even understand them either, it just makes itself look roughly like it and goes "that works".

[banana]

Originally posted by Varlun:

First of all, cars have alternators. Car should regenerate some electric power as long as the engine is running- enough to slowly charge the battery with the headlights running.

Second, if you look at the charging station, the batteries are hooked up all wrong. First of all they're hooked up in sequence, rather than in parallel, which would serve to provide more power for LONGER rather than giving a BURST of power, which seems to be the intended idea... given how you throw the lever, and all the lights go out, etc.

And also, you don't mix positives and negatives. The batteries are all chained from positive to negative. Negatives are grounds, they give the electricity the motivation to move. Anyone who's ever jump started a car knows you hook red to red, black to black. The way they're hooked up would cause them all to explode.

Its not that deep.

[alaskanmutt]

Originally posted by daggaz:

but at least you have jumpstarting correct even if you clearly have absolutely no idea why.

Welllllll. Not really, it is not red to red black to black. It is positive to positive, negative to negative. Not all vehicles have red cables.

[ǁĔǂƐǀǝƔ8ǃǂǮǁ]

Originally posted by Varlun:

Mate. Those batteries are hooked red to black. That doesn't work. That's the entire point I'm trying to make. You all have made good points, but my main point stands.

Originally posted by Varlun:

[...] And also, you don't mix positives and negatives. The batteries are all chained from positive to negative. Negatives are grounds, they give the electricity the motivation to move. Anyone who's ever jump started a car knows you hook red to red, black to black. The way they're hooked up would cause them all to explode.

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That wasn't the entire point you were making. it was the throwaway "and also" point you were making.

Originally posted by Varlun:

First of all, cars have alternators. Car should regenerate some electric power as long as the engine is running- enough to slowly charge the battery with the headlights running.

One could say that you, yourself, cared more about the alternator situation initially. You ranked it first in your list of illusion-shattering nitpicks about the game.

Originally posted by Varlun:

Second, if you look at the charging station, the batteries are hooked up all wrong. First of all they're hooked up in sequence, rather than in parallel, which would serve to provide more power for LONGER rather than giving a BURST of power, which seems to be the intended idea... given how you throw the lever, and all the lights go out, etc.

In fact it wasn't even your SECOND point, which was about series v parallel.

If you're going to be a pedant at least have the decency to be consistent about your pedantry.


It wasn't your main point, it was your tertiary point. If you, a single person, can't even keep up with the lore of your own forum post, why take the effort to give an entire development team a hard time?

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

I am surprised to see that, the electric motor starts and runs like a combustion engine, is not on your list. This was the most baffling to me.

[Ean Alias]

Next thing I know you're going to tell me FNAF was lying to me and It doesn't need constant power to keep a door shut.