power generator bug?

[Commander Tom]

In my old base i have a power generator which I haven't touched for a year, it's powered by a rayhound and stays near 100 percent.

Every new Power generator I place in new bases seems bugged because when I put level 1-3 electricity pal on it it only generates up to 3 percent and then falls back down to zero making it impossible to generate sustaining power. When I place more they all have the same problem. Any idea what happened to the power generators? Or am I missing something here ?

[Grimzy]

Cant say there is an issue, I build 2 new bases since the update and had not had a single issue with them

[ElmerFudd503]

i have the same problem, come back after the last update and had an oil rig set up. since fey update my power generator wont power up

[Squ'ith Shapeshifter]

It's probably not the case, but you haven't built any of the new egg incubators, have you? Those things draw a staggering amount of power.

[Commander Tom]

Originally posted by Squ'ith Shapeshifter:

It's probably not the case, but you haven't built any of the new egg incubators, have you? Those things draw a staggering amount of power.

I figured it out, in my case it was the oil rig that drained a crazy ammount of electricity.

[Lyrdian]

Originally posted by Commander Tom:

Originally posted by Squ'ith Shapeshifter:

It's probably not the case, but you haven't built any of the new egg incubators, have you? Those things draw a staggering amount of power.

I figured it out, in my case it was the oil rig that drained a crazy ammount of electricity.

Yea, the oil rig takes an unfathomable amount of power, and honestly kinda killed my will to even progress further in the game. Plasteel is used so much until hexolite, and the oil is so annoying to farm and keep rigs running. Why bother? I want the game to be slow but fun, not slow but tedious.

[Squ'ith Shapeshifter]

Originally posted by Commander Tom:

I figured it out, in my case it was the oil rig that drained a crazy ammount of electricity.

Oh yeah, that'll do it too. But If you catch maybe six(?) Helzephyr Lux, you'll be able to keep two separate oil rigs going indefinitely, without any further power disruptions.

[Lyrdian]

Originally posted by Squ'ith Shapeshifter:

Originally posted by Commander Tom:

I figured it out, in my case it was the oil rig that drained a crazy ammount of electricity.

Oh yeah, that'll do it too. :lunar2019grinningpig: But If you catch maybe six(?) Helzephyr Lux, you'll be able to keep two separate oil rigs going indefinitely, without any further power disruptions.

So like 1/3 of a base for a single resource? Seems like poor game design to me personally. I love palworld, or at least i did. But the oil extractor (power, not speed. I could do slow without tedious, or fast and tedious but not this slow AND tedious crap), capture rates and LACK OF A FIX FOR SERVER STASIS STARVATION are driving me away.

[Squ'ith Shapeshifter]

Originally posted by Lyrdian:

So like 1/3 of a base for a single resource?

Oof, my condolences. I didn't even consider that. I've been playing solo for so long, that I actually forgot that I'd gone and uncapped the number of Pals-per-base in my world settings. Leveling your base past 20 felt utterly pointless, otherwise.

But doing the same is NOT going to be a solution for public servers due to resource constraints. :( Hope the multiplayer aficionados are making good use of those official feedback forms on this particular issue.

[The Great White Shiekh]

Originally posted by Lyrdian:

Originally posted by Squ'ith Shapeshifter:

Oh yeah, that'll do it too. :lunar2019grinningpig: But If you catch maybe six(?) Helzephyr Lux, you'll be able to keep two separate oil rigs going indefinitely, without any further power disruptions.

So like 1/3 of a base for a single resource? Seems like poor game design to me personally. I love palworld, or at least i did. But the oil extractor (power, not speed. I could do slow without tedious, or fast and tedious but not this slow AND tedious crap), capture rates and LACK OF A FIX FOR SERVER STASIS STARVATION are driving me away.

you could always use better pals, it can make a big difference depending on the traits of work tier.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

just setup accumulators? or multiple chargers

[Kayden]

I am having the same problem with a base that I moved. In one base the power fine with 2 assembler mk2, palsphere mk2 and weapon mk 2 bench that stays at 85% with a level 3 electric pal but my power at my new base with only 1 oil producer can't keep up with 5 gens and I have 5x level 4 electric gen pals. It isn't me, it's a bug.

You're not crazy OP, this exists in certain situations for sure. If you have a link to a ticket let me know I'll jump in on it with you.

EDIT: I hadn't touched my game since the spring and I just updated it and my server 2 days ago so this is a very recent development for me.

EDIT 2: Something I noticed is that it works fine when I'm at the base with the power issues or at least it's better then when I'm absent but it doesn't go very high and then drops catastrophically from 7% to 0. Now that I complained about this and brought my oil producers down to 1, the capacitors are working at above 7% which was my max before, I even go to 48% on one before I exited to test it, again.

EDIT 3: Yep the power worked when I was there but when I left it was doing the low power thing again. The power will not charge unless I am physically at the base. There is only 1 oil rig for 5x the level 4 electric pals so yeah, it isn't normal.

[Malasorte]

the thing about PalWorld is that if you are not in the base, close to it it will stop doing anything, for example i play solo, every time i start the game up i have to go to each base so they start producing but that does not last long.
You can see this by placing the new guild chest without any other chests in the resource bases, teleport there, the palls will place resources there, leave and then go to another base and look at the resource that the previous base is making then go and do other stuff and look again after a while at the resource from another base guild chest, it will be the same number as before.
Its how the game works, you can set those bases up but you have to be there to get resources.
If you teleport to the resource base you will get a few fast but only 1 pass ( example: you have 6 coal that are mined there, you leave and come back later and you will get 6 coal boulders worth of coal in the guild chest if you are there, but thats it even if you go there hours later, but when you go there that will trigger a new pass, if you want to farm from those res bases you have to keep teleporting there to start a new pass or you wont get anything, even the coal that was mined in the pass you triggered before wont be placed in the chest till you are there)

[Kayden]

Originally posted by Malasorte:

the thing about PalWorld is that if you are not in the base, close to it it will stop doing anything, for example i play solo, every time i start the game up i have to go to each base so they start producing but that does not last long.
You can see this by placing the new guild chest without any other chests in the resource bases, teleport there, the palls will place resources there, leave and then go to another base and look at the resource that the previous base is making then go and do other stuff and look again after a while at the resource from another base guild chest, it will be the same number as before.
Its how the game works, you can set those bases up but you have to be there to get resources.

I understand that but they aren't charging the power unless I am there, no power gets made. That is a misunderstanding of the situation entirely.

Anyways, here is what it looks like on my end when I just came back per my previous post edit 3.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397810028

[Malasorte]

Originally posted by Kayden:

Originally posted by Malasorte:

I understand that but they aren't charging the power unless I am there, no power gets made. That is a misunderstanding of the situation entirely.

Anyways, here is what it looks like on my end when I just came back per my previous post edit 3.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397810028

its the exact same thing as the mining, if you are not there tough luck

[Kayden]

Here is me standing there. This shouldn't happen. I have 2 other bases with no power problems. Granted this new "it will charge while I stand here" is new, cause I documented it here I removed....ah just go back and read it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397817236