Anyone have a good power supply tutorial?

[DeadSlash]

Anyone have any links to a good one? I'm really trying to get into this game, but the power system is really frustrating me. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, and for no obvious reason.

I was looking on ytube for a good demo, but they are all 7 months old, and they are all doing what I'm doing, spamming pylons sub-stations and powerstations until it works.

[ZigZach]

I'm not having issues. What are you finding difficult? You use power stations to generate the power, substations to emit power, and power lines to transmit power from stations to substations.

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by ZigZach:

I'm not having issues. What are you finding difficult? You use power stations to generate the power, substations to emit power, and power lines to transmit power from stations to substations.

Yeah, well sometimes you do all of those things and it just doesn't happen. Almost like it's bugged. If I clear it out and do it over it eventually works. The game doesn't explain it very well. It just says "no power" as opposed to saying "no path" that tells me what I need to know. "No power" is a lot more general.

Unfortunately, when there is no path, it's easier to see, so it spells it out when I don't need it.

Currently, I don't have an issue with 90% of the buildings I create, but when I hit one that is a problem, I just have to spam pylons and substations, bulldoze and repeat until it just works.

There has to be an easier way, as is I am wasting a lot of time and funds.

[Kudl]

Originally posted by DeadSlash:

Originally posted by ZigZach:

I'm not having issues. What are you finding difficult? You use power stations to generate the power, substations to emit power, and power lines to transmit power from stations to substations.

Yeah, well sometimes you do all of those things and it just doesn't happen. Almost like it's bugged. If I clear it out and do it over it eventually works. The game doesn't explain it very well. It just says "no power" as opposed to saying "no path" that tells me what I need to know. "No power" is a lot more general.

Unfortunately, when there is no path, it's easier to see, so it spells it out when I don't need it.

Currently, I don't have an issue with 90% of the buildings I create, but when I hit one that is a problem, I just have to spam pylons and substations, bulldoze and repeat until it just works.

There has to be an easier way, as is I am wasting a lot of time and funds.

have you tried building more than one power station cause it never happens to me

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by GaMiNgNiNjA3210_YT:

Originally posted by DeadSlash:

Yeah, well sometimes you do all of those things and it just doesn't happen. Almost like it's bugged. If I clear it out and do it over it eventually works. The game doesn't explain it very well. It just says "no power" as opposed to saying "no path" that tells me what I need to know. "No power" is a lot more general.

Unfortunately, when there is no path, it's easier to see, so it spells it out when I don't need it.

Currently, I don't have an issue with 90% of the buildings I create, but when I hit one that is a problem, I just have to spam pylons and substations, bulldoze and repeat until it just works.

There has to be an easier way, as is I am wasting a lot of time and funds.

have you tried building more than one power station cause it never happens to me

Yeah, I've done that as a fix too, but I'm guessing I'm doing it wrong because it's showing a lot of wasted energy.

There is just some piece of it I'm missing.

[Fox]

Originally posted by DeadSlash:

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Yeah, well sometimes you do all of those things and it just doesn't happen. Almost like it's bugged. If I clear it out and do it over it eventually works. The game doesn't explain it very well. It just says "no power" as opposed to saying "no path" that tells me what I need to know. "No power" is a lot more general.
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Actually its not, since it would say "No Substation" otherwise when selecting the building in question, so it points at energy generation, not distribution...
Sounds really buggy if you say your Powerplant has Power Surplus!?
Using the Upgrade to generate more Power? Do you link all buildings in your Park to all Powerplants, or do you connect each Powerplant only to whatever it can support and a dedicated Network for the next one?

[survivalistic]

You need to make sure when placing substations that it covers all your buildings.
you can use the map to see if you have 100% energy coverage it works similair to the people's field of view when placing viewing stations... but this is very weird indeed , if you do not cover certaint buildings you would be able to see on the map which of the buildings doesnt have enough power , the simple solution is build a substation near the buildings which dont have power make sure it covers all the buildings... if this doesnt solve the issue then you might not have enough power so you wil have to build another powerplant. the only thing i look at is if my substation's cover my entire park including electric fences , and that i have enough powerplants to provide the power needed to make sure everything works , plus you could add upgrades to your powerplants to increase productivity or avoid your powerplants from failing. and also make sure that everything is connected the powerlines to the substations and ofcourse the paths , but the game pretty much explains everything when you press the notification items above , you wil go into the map and see where the problem is and what it could be. you pretty much get a notification all the time when something wrong happens to your park. even when your animals run out of food. i also remember when playing the game for the first time it has a very good tutorial , pretty much ian malcolm and other jurassic park/world actors in the game explain every aspect in the game when the time is right to do so. best tip i could give to new players never skip the dialogue it explains allot. if you know all these things explained above and followed the tutorial as intended then you might have a bug in your game.

[AMX]

Is it possible that you have several power grids that are not connected to each other?
A substation can only draw power from the power plants it is connected to.

[Inardesco]

You plonk down power station. Connect it to substations, everything in the circle around substation is powered.

Reliability + power increase is must


Reliability v3 is good enough for 2 power increases of v3.

[Fox]

Power Increase Upgrade i'd only use for Large Powerplants, combining two of em with 2x T3 + 1x T1 Failsafe, on smaller Powerplants i mainly use Reduced Upkeep Upgrade since you cant fully protect them... me dont like Powerplants shutting down, be it from Sabotage or from Overclocking!

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by Fox:

me dont like Powerplants shutting down, be it from Sabotage or from Overclocking! :deadfox:

Have a ranger of your trust nearby to fix it. :D

[DeadSlash]

Thanks all for the feedback. I know it's something I'm doing wrong, that's why I was looking for a tutorial It's just got to be one stupid little thing I'm missing.

Originally posted by AMX:

Is it possible that you have several power grids that are not connected to each other?
A substation can only draw power from the power plants it is connected to.

It's probably this, I started over, and it's much cleaner now, I still ran into this but I'm not wasting as much and it doesn't look terrible.

[E c h o]

in one spot on the island, i place like 7 large PW stations(farmed resources from other islands to get the money) and attch them all with pylons and put large ST in hidden areas.