outpost power problem?

[Colmaniac]

Ok since stating a new game after the patches etc, built my first out post. Not new to this built many before in my old game but stuck with basic stuff.

Till now in my new game I managed to accumulate advanced tech gear.
But for some reason my level 2 mining gear isnt working, I have built 2 30power banks and have a total 60 power, radar station built wired and powered working, built 3 water condensers power cables connected and powered and working. Built 3 by 3 lots of resource mining stations level 2 total of 9 mining stations, all connected each with power and connected to the storage built. But for some reason they are not starting up so not mining.

Have I missed something from a patch and its changed? I remember from my old game just built enough windmills and connected them and the drills worked.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Have I missed something from a patch and its changed? I remember from my old game just built enough windmills and connected them and the drills worked.

are you sure your planet has enough atmosphere for the windmills to work properly?

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

But for some reason my level 2 mining gear isnt working, I have built 2 30power banks and have a total 60 power, radar station built wired and powered working, built 3 water condensers power cables connected and powered and working. Built 3 by 3 lots of resource mining stations level 2 total of 9 mining stations, all connected each with power and connected to the storage built. But for some reason they are not starting up so not mining.

Have I missed something from a patch and its changed? I remember from my old game just built enough windmills and connected them and the drills worked.

I'll try to help. You have much more advanced outpost gear than I have. You have a total of 60 pwr being generated. How much total power is your outpost using?

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

But for some reason my level 2 mining gear isnt working, I have built 2 30power banks and have a total 60 power, radar station built wired and powered working, built 3 water condensers power cables connected and powered and working. Built 3 by 3 lots of resource mining stations level 2 total of 9 mining stations, all connected each with power and connected to the storage built. But for some reason they are not starting up so not mining.

Have I missed something from a patch and its changed? I remember from my old game just built enough windmills and connected them and the drills worked.

I'll try to help. You have much more advanced outpost gear than I have. You have a total of 60 pwr being generated. How much total power is your outpost using?

only half that, 30. I built a 2nd generator but still not working even connected the 2nd generator to the 1st and connected to the drills, even moved the generator closer to the drills. Had this problem on my first try, didnt get power, moved the wind mills closer and they did start up. 2nd time around is a no go. both generators are running as I have power to the radar and the water condensers

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Have I missed something from a patch and its changed? I remember from my old game just built enough windmills and connected them and the drills worked.

are you sure your planet has enough atmosphere for the windmills to work properly?

not using wind power, as I said from my old game, new game im using the nuclear generator

[Krash Megiddo]

I suspect the generators are bugged or not fueled correctly? Not sure since I never use generators that take fuel.

"power cables" sounds odd to me as well. I only use the passive power sources that don't use a cable to run their dependencies.

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

I suspect the generators are bugged or not fueled correctly? Not sure since I never use generators that take fuel.

"power cables" sounds odd to me as well. I only use the passive power sources that don't use a cable to run their dependencies.

generator dosenst take a refutable source

[Cythal]

The UI counts the total power in the outpost. I assume the below is what you are experiencing.

If you use wires, and do not link everything together to make sure everything is on one grid, it is possible that one module is drawing more power than the power generators that it is connected to.

So you can either avoid this by ignoring wire for power and allow all modules to draw power from all available power ...

Or, you ensure that everything in your outpost is wired together in one whole giant grid rather than separate grids where some power generators is only linked to some modules.

It seems it was designed this way so that you can hide the generator that is powering your turrets to ensure they do not get damaged and taken offline. This issue now is if you wire one thing, you now have to wire everything to make them continue to work.

You can test this. Build some light and extractor with enough power available, provided by 2 different power generators. Wire the extractor to one of the generator. You will see the lights go off even if there is still enough power available, causing you to have to wire it as well.

[Colmaniac]

Ok found the issue, seems after building the drills, there was no info on the state of the drills, seemed I had to repair all of them to get them to work.

[Boris]

Just finished to build a outpost and a few pirates arrived. After taking them out i had to repair a few items too.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Ok found the issue, seems after building the drills, there was no info on the state of the drills, seemed I had to repair all of them to get them to work.

Thanks for the update! This topic will help someone else that has this same issue in the future.

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Ok found the issue, seems after building the drills, there was no info on the state of the drills, seemed I had to repair all of them to get them to work.

Thanks for the update! This topic will help someone else that has this same issue in the future.

Thanks, not sure why there was a repair problem, never had this before, yet though with the current game till there is an update no way to tell what a problem is. So far built another 2 outposts and 0 issues,

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Thanks for the update! This topic will help someone else that has this same issue in the future.

Thanks, not sure why there was a repair problem, never had this before, yet though with the current game till there is an update no way to tell what a problem is. So far built another 2 outposts and 0 issues,

You might be on a planet with angry fauna that will destroy drills and power stations. Or maybe just a random pirate attack while you were gone.

[Maligner]

I thought the only use for wiring was in order to incorporate switches to allow powering off and on. If you plan for all machines to run whenever possible, you can skip the wiring entirely.