What gives off enough power for the lasers?

[crua9]

So on my server we have the lasers and what not. But it's asking for 24k w. With everything my server has 9 solar and 3 wind. With that we are only able to get 6,750w.
Does anyone know what puts off the most power in the game?

[The Undead Watcher]

Normal Coal Generators i guess?

[crua9]

Originally posted by Sky Cleaner:

Normal Coal Generators i guess?

Havent tried that yet, but I notice that the first thing you put down gives a lot of power with whatever. Like Solar gives 2kw for the first one or first few. But then it gives 500w after a point.
I'm wondering if the devs really want people to have a 100 things to power up this.

[Shane]

you need 24,000 units of power, a generator will provide 1,500 i believe, so you can use a mixture of those combined with wind turbines and solar panels.


the generator says the best fuel is gasoline @ 50K J with 3 full barrels per generator max

[crua9]

Nice, I will try that out. Base on what you said, I will need 12 generators and 36 gas. That can be done I think. It kinda sucks so much space is powering so little. And after you blow up the thing, you really need 95% of it.

[Shane]

Well im now ready i have 13generators (waiting to get the 3xgas into each one) and this is something unknown by us both i have no idea howmany times these 4 lasers need to fire, and if they need topups on that gasoline...

but 13 of em on top of my already electric network which was giving out... supply 5000w
so with the generators (once i put the gas in them) i have a total now of 24,500w

and the computer that controls the 4 lasers reads it demands 24,450w
(remember 2x100w for 2xpumps and 250w being used for my roller to get the building done
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1311073993

so we can take 450 of the demand when im ready to fire i can stop those.

let me just put 1 log into each generator, get back to ya

[crua9]

It sounds like this is bugged

[Shane]

not bugged just wants a stupid 24, 000watts worth of bloody power lmfao

6,000 per laser x 4 = 24,000
16xgenerators@1,500watts output === 24,000 (+/- your current electric grid)

if you already have some wind turbines down creating lets say 1,500watts, turn all electrical items of everything stop all workstations, etc, you then only need 15 generators because your exsisting network of turbines creates 1,500watts.



the supply from the generators doesnt show on the network until they are fuelled and switched on, im guessing you dont want them turned on when the orbit of the metorite is on the other side of the planet.

also the demand for the lasers wont be placed on the network until all four have been placed down.

1xbarrels of gasoline in all 16 generators burns @ 50,000J and last for ???mins/secs when the network is active ???

[Shane]

okay little update for ya, lmfao wont spoil it but just stick any fuel in the generators mate, but because i was working it out the answer is....
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1311266385

1xbarrel of gasoline in all 16 generators burns @ 50,000J and last for 4mins when the laser network is active with nothing else running

PS they can hold more than 3 barrels, so correct that statement, too....

[crua9]

Originally posted by Shane:

okay little update for ya, lmfao wont spoil it but just stick any fuel in the generators mate, but because i was working it out the answer is....
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1311266385

1xbarrel of gasoline in all 16 generators burns @ 50,000J and last for 4mins when the laser network is active with nothing else running

PS they can hold more than 3 barrels, so correct that statement, too....

Does the laser do anything? Like do you see anything come out of them?

[Secret]

kind of begs the question "wouldnt it be easier to just launch one (or more) of those mining rigs they posted in the news letter on TO the meteor to destroy it from within?"..

[Okuda]

We did it with green energy! We used wind turbines for that. You need 33 of them.

Yeah they do something visually. I dont want to spoiler :)

[Shane]

read spoiler if you want to know about the laser firing

by the time i ran around turned on the generators, then the computer, ran back to the generator to get a timing on fuel burn i saw nothing happen, because i was watching the generator ;lol

i will say this much i found it very lack luster considering the crap ive gone through to get it done. i was expecting it to be a bigger ordeal like maybe have to fire a beam at it for several hours or a few passings (heck i saved a full stockpile of gasoline for the event) etc

It was about as big of a ordeal as burning two iron ore in a blast furnace
lmao

still i get to start over this time with knowledge of all things eco. And you are actually better of making a wind farm than the generators because once you have fired, the network demand on power drops so nothing works, unless your rocking the generators all the time.

or pick up the lasers, which you best of doing regardless of path taken

of course thats pretty moot anyway because you cant die in eco so theres no point continue to play the game once the rock has gone. you dont even need to craft or eat, the entire game literally just dies once the goal is completed.

but should for some strange reason you want to continue, then the wind farm is the better option.

[WILDCATreactor]

sounds like it needs more rocks

[crua9]

Originally posted by Secret:

kind of begs the question "wouldnt it be easier to just launch one (or more) of those mining rigs they posted in the news letter on TO the meteor to destroy it from within?"..

To be honest, the entire blowing up the meteor is just stupid. It has been explain many times what would happen (hint, the entire thing is still coming at you). Like the size of it wouldn't matter since it would wipe the planet. But you just gave everyone less of a chance to live since now you have a shot gun effect.

The best method is just push it off from hitting the planet. This is what we do now in RL. You can use a laser to help push it. But if you have enough time, then you can just send something that stays in space to slightly move it.

What makes me PO about this is the USA edu dep gave this game company a few million a while back. And since this is going to be in schools, it's going to spread false info. The movie was bad enough, but that wasn't meant to be edu