Unrealistic electricity distribution

[I suck at PvP]

Is anyone else slightly annoyed by how simplified it is? A single, not very thick, wire can easily cary unlimited amount of current. Not even speaking about voltage. Pipes have limitations, why not wires? The whole electrical system could be much more complex and interesting. Instead we just have to run around and turn off devices when "fuse" (also wrong, actually a breaker) blows...

[J.D. Aliance]

It's meant to be a game, not a training simulator for prospective industrial electricians.

[Pyroteknikid]

Given the size of the arcs when you make a connection, it's probably a 500kV supply grid. So we don't need thick cables to transmit high power...

/sarcasm kinda

[Jack Sparrow]

Originally posted by Jack-o-Lantern:

It's a game not an electrical grid simulator

What a moronic comment lol, it literally a factory and logistics simulator, adding some complexity to the power grid would fit perfectly in to the game and wouldn't even be slightly out of place, it already has complexity to its fluid mechanics.

[Simofactory]

Osamna is right. It could do with some changes. It's still serviceable though, I don't think it NEEDS to be changed.

[Darren]

For me its just fine. My "Mainwire" is perfectly perfectly represented by the big electricity pylons ^^

[ibbles]

Originally posted by Lawn-Mower:

Originally posted by I suck at PvP:

Is anyone else slightly annoyed by how simplified it is? A single, not very thick, wire can easily cary unlimited amount of current. Not even speaking about voltage. Pipes have limitations, why not wires? The whole electrical system could be much more complex and interesting. Instead we just have to run around and turn off devices when "fuse" (also wrong, actually a breaker) blows...

You should make a mod for it, I'm sure others would appreciate it.

i don't know if i'm stupid or if the satisfactory mod app thing's tutorial for making mods doesn't work. i've tried it but it doesnt seem to work..

[Doc✪Hollywood]

A mod for high voltage would be funny. You get too close to it, you get fried

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Jack Sparrow:

Originally posted by Jack-o-Lantern:

It's a game not an electrical grid simulator

What a moronic comment lol, it literally a factory and logistics simulator, adding some complexity to the power grid would fit perfectly in to the game and wouldn't even be slightly out of place, it already has complexity to its fluid mechanics.

Except it is just adding Tedium for the sake of adding Tedium. So the game would gain nothing with that.

Originally posted by SignpostMarv:

Originally posted by I suck at PvP:

Is anyone else slightly annoyed by how simplified it is? A single, not very thick, wire can easily cary unlimited amount of current. Not even speaking about voltage. Pipes have limitations, why not wires? The whole electrical system could be much more complex and interesting. Instead we just have to run around and turn off devices when "fuse" (also wrong, actually a breaker) blows...

May 9th, 2023 Livestream
Q&A: Do you want to change electricity transport?
https://youtu.be/3JCB4kXebDw

Originally posted by snutt101:

we were actually thinking of changing how power would work in the game, like revamping completely like how power so like if you're transferring power through like long distances you would need to add Transformers and stuff like that and like different types of cables and we sort of just realized that it just made the game overly complex for no real reason like it it it's it's more complex and like that that surely that means that the game is more interesting right but that's not always the case we found, so we actually did prototype that a little bit and, decided not to go with that

[The Big Brzezinski]

If someone has an idea for a more realistic power distribution mechanics that facilitate player expression and invention better than the ones we have now, I'm all ears.

[some moron]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by Jack Sparrow:

What a moronic comment lol, it literally a factory and logistics simulator, adding some complexity to the power grid would fit perfectly in to the game and wouldn't even be slightly out of place, it already has complexity to its fluid mechanics.

Except it is just adding Tedium for the sake of adding Tedium. So the game would gain nothing with that.

Originally posted by SignpostMarv:

May 9th, 2023 Livestream
Q&A: Do you want to change electricity transport?
https://youtu.be/3JCB4kXebDw

You are being arbitrary.
One person's arbitrary is another person's logistics game. Whose to say the line?

Why have conveyor belts - that's tedius - why not use the mod that teleports all goods exactly as needed. Avoids more "tedium" that way.

[some moron]

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

If someone has an idea for a more realistic power distribution mechanics that facilitate player expression and invention better than the ones we have now, I'm all ears.

ONI really has an excellent approximation of electricity and physics at large.

[Schobbob]

Originally posted by some moron:

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

If someone has an idea for a more realistic power distribution mechanics that facilitate player expression and invention better than the ones we have now, I'm all ears.

ONI really has an excellent approximation of electricity and physics at large.

when they added that it killed the game for me, it's completely tedious and not fun

[✟ waffle ✟]

No. end of discussion.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by some moron:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Except it is just adding Tedium for the sake of adding Tedium. So the game would gain nothing with that.

You are being arbitrary.
One person's arbitrary is another person's logistics game. Whose to say the line?

Why have conveyor belts - that's tedius - why not use the mod that teleports all goods exactly as needed. Avoids more "tedium" that way.

Snutt literally said thay tested that and just made the game more complicated while adding nothing else. And he is right when he says that more complicated doesn't necessarily mean better.
For stuff like this a mod is the better solution as those that want the Tedium for the sake if it can just get the mod and have that Tedium.

Also the game is literally being advertised with mentioning conveyor belts. So removing that is a bad idea. However, it nowhere advertises itself with being realistic or having complex power transport.

[Charlemagne]

It`s called Satisfactory not Boringfactory