Power and hydroponics

[mr.D4RK]

New player here, tryin to plan my base.
So, hydroponic thingy give me 3 food/day but I need water and power.
I claimed water tower and built a generator at the base. I started the generator and powered the base, including hydroponic.
Questions is as follow:
1) Generator does not run a full day after powering, so how many yields I'll get if I do not restart generator once it's done?
2) What is happening when facility require power,and perform action, but generator is out of fuel? Progress is lost?

[Protectron]

The day's upkeep (resource income vs expenses) is due twice a day;half in the morning and half in the evening.

I always make sure that the activation of seed sprinkling and compost bin (boosting the whole thing 3x) is active before dawn and dusk. This is especially evident when I have moved maps and are setting up the new base - if I forget to upgrade everything and activate Rationing and the food production boosts by dawn or dusk, my Food resource store can drop from 25 to 15 or less (depending on the number of survivors) when playing on Lethal.

This means that if your power and water activations run out a second before the dawn or dusk upkeep event, the Hydroponics will turn off and produce zero Food the only times it matters.

[mr.D4RK]

Originally posted by Protectron:

The day's upkeep (resource income vs expenses) is due twice a day;half in the morning and half in the evening.

I always make sure that the activation of seed sprinkling and compost bin (boosting the whole thing 3x) is active before dawn and dusk. This is especially evident when I have moved maps and are setting up the new base - if I forget to upgrade everything and activate Rationing and the food production boosts by dawn or dusk, my Food resource store can drop from 25 to 15 or less (depending on the number of survivors) when playing on Lethal.

This means that if your power and water activations run out a second before the dawn or dusk upkeep event, the Hydroponics will turn off and produce zero Food the only times it matters.

Wow, that is totally intuitive mechanic that is absolutely not bullsheit.
Is there in-game clock or something, how I am supposed to know when to activate these? ._.

[Le Deflagosseur]

No in game clock afaik, use the sun I guess :/

Not sure why there is no option to auto refill the in-base generators, that's just silly, your power and water outposts are auto running all day all week, I don't see why it could not be the same for in-base generators.

[anguelwyvern]

Originally posted by Le Deflagosseur:

Not sure why there is no option to auto refill the in-base generators, that's just silly

because player are dumb (dont mean to offend anyone by saying this) and most would just "forget" about it, and then at some point the game would just say "hey you dont have NO MORE FUEL AT ALL to keep gene powered up", and from thsi point on you would see hundreds of angry post on steam or undead labs official website saying "my generator auto refill dried my base up of all my fuel, how do i turn it off ?"
so i guess they choosed the more, safe option

[mr.D4RK]

Awareness

Originally posted by anguelwyvern:

Originally posted by Le Deflagosseur:

Not sure why there is no option to auto refill the in-base generators, that's just silly

because player are dumb (dont mean to offend anyone by saying this) and most would just "forget" about it, and then at some point the game would just say "hey you dont have NO MORE FUEL AT ALL to keep gene powered up", and from thsi point on you would see hundreds of angry post on steam or undead labs official website saying "my generator auto refill dried my base up of all my fuel, how do i turn it off ?"
so i guess they choosed the more, safe option

Outposts that give power (and water) will literally suck your fuel dry, but they are always on by default, can't be turned off even.
This is just bad design.
Outpost should have on/off button, generator should work the same way, and both facilities should function until the next reward time once powered, instead of "X minutes on".

[Le Deflagosseur]

Yeah, making it an option to turn auto refill on and off would do it for everyone and yeah, that should be the case for outposts too IMO.