Power Issues

[aardvarkpepper]

I'm hovering at 60 population on a Normal game so I don't trigger Deathclaws. But I'm having some serious power issues.

Right now I'm at three 3-wide level 2 nuclear reactors (I think they're called, the tier 2 power generators).

I don't want to build more or upgrade them because that will increase my total power capacity and radscorpions suck up power based on total power capacity. I don't have weapons that can kill radscorpions super fast yet.

But the reactors I have now just barely power up my base. I have a load of high-Strength dwellers staffing the plants, but unless I stay in-game collecting power over and over, I don't have enough to run the vault.

Rushing isn't good for me either, because triggering radscorptions drains way more power than a couple rushes can pull in.

Should I build some lower tier power structures, or blow up one reactor and just have two level 3 reacotrs, or just go ahead and build another level 2 reactor? or something else?

(Just blowing up rooms to lower power requireements isn't something I'm willing to do)

[Stardustfire]

train u power teams in S E and L to max, the L will do the trick by lowering the fail chance drastical.

[Lexie]

Originally posted by aardvarkpepper:

I don't want to build more or upgrade them because that will increase my total power capacity and radscorpions suck up power based on total power capacity. I don't have weapons that can kill radscorpions super fast yet.

You kinda need more power.

Granted, I have one vault so my experience only comes from that - you should be able to deal with one radscorpion if you have 60 dwellers.
Add more rooms for stimpacks and radaway.

Also, power generators and nuclear reactors are different things. And while power generators, whatever tier, are cute and stuff, they eventually have to go. Blow'em, replace them.

Did you know that if you save&quit during radscorpion attack (whether it was because of rushing or not) and go back to the game - the attack will still happen but the resources won't be drained?
If you do it quickly, your only problem is keeping the dwellers alive.

You can also save&rush and in case of a failure, AltF4 out of the mess.
May wanna keep manual back-up save just in case.

Other than that, you need to reevaluate your vault life - research training SPECIALs (training lev1s in E, etc), give your dwellers fancy clothes, get rid of high level worthless dwellers, and stuff.

At this point in game your vault should be able to sustain itself without any attack - and if attack comes, you can deal with it.

[aardvarkpepper]

Originally posted by PLeia:

Did you know that if you save&quit during radscorpion attack (whether it was because of rushing or not) and go back to the game - the attack will still happen but the resources won't be drained?
If you do it quickly, your only problem is keeping the dwellers alive.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

no i didn't know that at all

but now that i do life will be easy peasy

[SaM.js]

:V

[Eagle_of_Fire]

From another thread just now...

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

It is extremely hard to give you decent advice without looking at your vault. But from what I gather from what you are saying, you actually don't have enough power room. The trick is that you don't need them all manned.

Another thing is that the nuklear power generator have more capacity but worse energy production than the normal energy production room. So you should keep your high strenght dwellers in the gen one power buildings for faster production. Which is what you want when you get attacked by mole rats or rad scorpions because they'll drain a % of your energy every tick instead of a hard number.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

What you should really be aiming for is your demand bar. Keep it at around 25%. The rest is kind of meaningless.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Oh, and BTW... I have something like 8 power production rooms in my vault but only 2 of those are actually manned. And I have above 180 dwelers in my vault...

[aardvarkpepper]

Thanks. Basically I run three level 2 nuclear reactors in a 60-population vault that has . . . a lot of rooms. To make a long story short, the mark on the bar for power is at about 25% or something really low. But despite having more than double the power production rate than power used, I still can't accumulate power. Probably because I log in, collect, do a few things, log out.

BUT if I get just one radscorpion (which I can't kill because not good enough guns, and lot of rooms are upgraded), then the power just goes down to red. Then it's hard to get it back up again.

That comment about the power generators being more efficient, sure. But I'd guess if you're gaining power during a radscorpion attack you must have some crazy high Strength dwelelrs. Most of my dwellers in nuclear reactors are Strength 3 with +3 equip. There's a few with 5 Strength, or 8 Strength, and a fes +5 Strength uniforms, but I am nowhere near to being able to outpace radscorpion power drain.

Well I'll give it a shot.

Since the first post, I upgraded two of my nuclear reacotrs to level 3. Avoided rushing anything, so the radscorptions don't pop up all the time. Seems to kiind of work but not so well.

(At lower levels, I would gain power like crazy, but then I was using power generators then instead of nuclear reactors)

[JPMcMillen]

You need to start training up your power workers to start getting them all closer to 10 Strength so they can complete a cycle of production faster. Eventually you can get them to finish generating power in less than a minute.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

All my power dwellers are 10 strenght without exception, with various strenght gear.

Also I didn't say I would outpace the radscorpion max power drain. Rather that it never happen that I actually let it run its course to full lenght. My power generation is then good enough to mitigate enough of the drain that I don't really care.