Selcting Generator Fuels........

[birchrus01]

Something seems hella off here.

I cant actually set the generator to a specific fuel type or combo. Id like to use oil to make Material, But all the oil coming into the city is being burned, even when u have a surpluse supply of coal and steam.... Wtf...? ive tried all the options, and it just seems the generator wants oil above all else, even when you get to the stage where it means your wasting geothermal energy you cant actual store.

Is the generator just bugged???

[Airatome]

I can't provide any screenshots yet but in my Utopia run where I haven't even touched oil and have ONLY coal and steam going at the moment, I have been able to use Generator II upgrade amd Geothermal research to use STRICTLY steam power to run my entire city currently well into the 500 week threshold.

If I turn the optimizer to coal, it burns coal.

So as far as I have tested it's working as intended if you have enough to support all your needs. Otherwise it will mix, and that means Oil if you have it followed by coal if you dont or still need more coal after oil is taken into consideration.

Further: at some point I WILL have to begin extracting oil, and when I do I'll see if oil gets prioritized or used up even with my current 100% geothermal city running at peak capacity.

I have a feeling the momemt oil enters into thr equation, the engine just always uses it to SOME degree because the game has been programmed with oil as the MOST efficient source of heat at a 1:1 ratio without research being factored in.

[Ridesdragons]

not bugged, genny just burns the best fuel you have available, if it's available. and the best fuel is oil. if you don't want it burning oil, get adaptive pumps, and upgrade it to tier 2, you can then choose a fuel to optimize the generator to. it is silly that it doesn't burn geothermal first, though, considering you literally can't store geothermal energy.... maybe next major patch they'll fix that.

that said, the generator burning oil will not impede your desires to turn oil into plastic. if you hover over materials, have you noticed that black bit before? that black bit is the "required by other buildings" group. so if you have industrial districts, they will get materials before all of your other buildings will. that way not having enough materials to prevent squalor will not impede your ability to make squalor-themed goods. or prefabs. it's the same with oil. if you make an oil->material fabricator inside your industrial districts, some of that oil will be reserved for the fabricator. this will, of course, reduce the amount of oil that gets burned in the generator, and thus increases the amount of fuel you need to heat everything else, but if you're wanting to use coal or geothermal in it anyway, this shouldn't be a problem.

EDIT: wait, adaptive pumps T2 is bugged to not prefer your chosen fuel over oil? oops. should be patched eventually. sorry for the misinformation on that, then.

[Prince995]

I have noticed that as long as you have oil in any way, it will prioritize that since the last hotfix... something seems to have broken the way it uses the different fuel types there, as even though I have the optimized Steam usage, it still prefers oil regardless.

[Airatome]

Originally posted by Prince995:

I have noticed that as long as you have oil in any way, it will prioritize that since the last hotfix... something seems to have broken the way it uses the different fuel types there, as even though I have the optimized Steam usage, it still prefers oil regardless.

Yeah I am probably going to have a save state of my above mentioned game PRE oil beinh introduced to my generator and POST oil. Just to see what that does interaction wise while prioritizing more than enough steam to run everything. I think my 2 steam vents are operating at 800 something fuel being provided for heat and it's not even touching coal yet.

[birchrus01]

Okay, so its a bug.

Something seemed off there. Like, why give the options if none actually appear to work. And i had just dropped the a massive amount of cores on upgrading to the last tier hoping for more efficiency and was pretty disappointed. its boosts output in industrial areas and crops, but doesn't have a noticeable impact on efficiency.

Its just rolled out, there are gonna be bugs and things that need to be rebalanced.

[birchrus01]

while playing utopia builder i experimented a lil and confirmed its the final upgrade that ♥♥♥♥♥ everything up.

[shinkim4077]

Really wish it was more like STEAM, then FUEL, then COAL. The point of Coal and FUEL is to burn it to make STEAM. STEAM is already STEAM so technically it is the most efficient FUEL to use.

Which is why I don't get Generator Upgrade III because it just burns FUEL and refuses everything else.