How to force generator use one of the resources?

[mezhiktime]

I have sources of all 3 resources but generator is using all my oil and steam so i have a bunch of unused coal. Can I force generator to use steam first and then distribute between oil and coal?

[Alcatraz David]

Click on the generator (the generator district) and you will see a tab below the window that pop up (generator tab), that showing its favorite fuel, you must had followed Adaptation route to use adaptive generator, and remember to research the generator to tier 2 and upgrade it to be able to choose the main fuel.

[mezhiktime]

Yes, but if i choose coal for example it does not use steam at all as i have a bunch of coal income. And steam cannot be stored so production is just useless. I'd like to firstly use all of the steam and then manually balance oil-coal input.

[[TAG]Alblaka]

Originally posted by Alcatraz David:

Like I told you, you need to upgrade the the Generator to lv 2 (which cost you 4 steam cores and some other things) before you could choose which fuel to be the favorite, it is in the 2nd tab when you click on the generator district, there will be bars that showing lv 1 lv 2 and lv 3, in which you can choose generator's fuel in 2nd bar by using your mouse -.-

Nah, he's right. It's bad design for the generator to *ever* not use up Steam first, since it's a non-storable, infinite resource. Regardless of what type of fuel the generator is specialized for.
And it also would be helpful to be able to generally prioritize whether the generator should use coal or fuel, after steam (especially if you have the generator specialized for steam).

It's a bit of lacking QoL there.

[Alcatraz David]

Originally posted by mezhiktime:

Yes, but if i choose coal for example it does not use steam at all as i have a bunch of coal income. And steam cannot be stored so production is just useless. I'd like to firstly use all of the steam and then manually balance oil-coal input.

The Generator was made that way, because the chosen fuel will have increase effectiveness on that fuel, in your case I think you should made your steam at the priority. The order of using the fuel is not an option for choosing.
As far as I know steam is the least priority on the list of fuel to use.
I think it would be 1st Oil, 2nd Coal and lastly Steam the 3rd so if you didn't choose it as the priority in the fuel tab, It will never be used as long you still another fuel available.

[Alcatraz David]

Originally posted by TAGAlblaka:

Originally posted by Alcatraz David:

Like I told you, you need to upgrade the the Generator to lv 2 (which cost you 4 steam cores and some other things) before you could choose which fuel to be the favorite, it is in the 2nd tab when you click on the generator district, there will be bars that showing lv 1 lv 2 and lv 3, in which you can choose generator's fuel in 2nd bar by using your mouse -.-

Nah, he's right. It's bad design for the generator to *ever* not use up Steam first, since it's a non-storable, infinite resource. Regardless of what type of fuel the generator is specialized for.
And it also would be helpful to be able to generally prioritize whether the generator should use coal or fuel, after steam (especially if you have the generator specialized for steam).

It's a bit of lacking QoL there.

Yeah, sorry I read his comment uncomprehendingly, it is indeed you are unable to choose the order of the fuels you have on hand :(((

[Beefcake]

this is so dumb. It uses the stockpilable resource before the ephemeral one...

[Cpt. Jeff Gaybeard]

Did anyone else got an issue with the level 3 generator upgrade where it absolutely refuse to use steam first EVEN if i put steam fuel as the intake optimization option?

[NzFox]

Originally posted by Beefcake:

this is so dumb. It uses the stockpilable resource before the ephemeral one...

its an efficacy thing, oil has 2-1 while the others have 1-1 so its used by default. You can get the tier 2 upgrade that lets you focus what resource you want to use but it really should be using gas first by default in all cases even if you have it set to something else with that upgrade. I assume its something that will get patched before long, or at the very lest will be one of the firs things to get modded

[xfor]

Originally posted by TAGAlblaka:

Nah, he's right. It's bad design for the generator to *ever* not use up Steam first, since it's a non-storable, infinite resource. Regardless of what type of fuel the generator is specialized for.

This! When the generator is able to use steam, it must use steam before everything else. It's straight-up a major game bug that it currently uses oil instead.

The player only needs to decide what to prioritize after steam: coal or oil. For simplicity, I'd suggest to make that the only switch.

The second generator upgrade could instead just give a passive bonus to the fuel type that currently has the largest share of the overall consumption.