power supply issue !!!

[cancer352]

I have a fire station with fire trucks and enough firefighters inside. The fire station is near a power distribution point and the yellow lines show that the fire station is connected to power. It should have power.
But inside the fire station window it says it has no power and in fact the fire station doesn't react to fires ! This doesn't make any sense, especially when the power distribution point is nearby !
What's the reason for that ???

[Doberstein]

Can you check if the actual power distribution point has energy?

[cancer352]

Now it's a total mystery ! I looked after it once more right now and suddenly the fire station has power again, even in the fire station window. The distribution point had always power (because the gas station beside the fire station always had power).
But nevertheless the fire station didn't react to the fire as described above. Obviously it's a mystery - I don't know.

[TheAmishStig]

It sounds like your power grid might be overloaded. When it gets dark out, do you see the town blinking like Christmas lights?

Each wire has a maximum amount of electricity it can carry (as does each substation)...if you try to put more than that through either one, that whole branch of the grid starts going nuts. when that happens, you need to rework your power grid to put less strain on any given component.

[cancer352]

The network couldn't be overloaded because the adjacent buildings were working without issues. The fire station power indications were conflicting as described above.
Anyway - the game was over: As a result the power supply of the trains burned down so I had no more income and I hadn't enough money to rebuild the power supply for the trains. That's the life of a gamer and now I have started a new game.

[-Z- Guderian]

Is it possible that the power distribution point hadn´t any road connections? In that case the firefighters couldn´t reach the fire scene even if they are on the adjacent site.

[cancer352]

It's only needed that the fire station and the burning power supply of the trains (...don't confuse it with the power distribution that supplied the fire station) are connected by roads and that was the case.
Next time I will call the ghost busters instead of the firefighters - maybe they could do better.

[maxiusdor]

Build a middle grid station next to firefighter station and wire it tot he power plant - or you have to pull the station down. It's seems to be glitch in the your game.

[cancer352]

...it's too late, I've deleted the game and started a new game. I'm convinced that a ghost buster station would do it here.

[maxiusdor]

Originally posted by cancer352:

...it's too late, I've deleted the game and started a new game. I'm convinced that a ghost buster station would do it here.

No a post of the state police to encourage the lazy worker to connect the power surply. Or the go to GULAG. LOL

[cancer352]

yes, that's right !

[maxiusdor]

I miss totally a more developed public administration in the game: A Townhall in the cities. A post service.

[maxiusdor]

My idea of the function of a Townhall in the game is:

1. Need of higher educated workers. 2. Need of two private cars per Townhall because the mayor will drive out to the construction side and visits the other public buildings like the firefighters or the hospital and holds spreeches with boosts the moral. 3. Holding little post office. 4. Having the need of paper - so you need to make a papermill which need like logs from the wood cutters.

[TheAmishStig]

Originally posted by cancer352:

The network couldn't be overloaded because the adjacent buildings were working without issues. The fire station power indications were conflicting as described above.
Anyway - the game was over: As a result the power supply of the trains burned down so I had no more income and I hadn't enough money to rebuild the power supply for the trains. That's the life of a gamer and now I have started a new game.

Yikes! Sorry to hear that...last game I lost was to my rail network collapsing. Spent a bunch of money spinning up a new production chain, counting on my exports to refill the ol' bank account...wasn't counting on the higher volume of trains in motion finding a flaw in my signals. By the time I noticed the traffic jam, the money was gone...no money to import raw materials to refine and sell overseas as finished materials (I want to say I was trading crops for alcohol, and coal/iron for steel), so that one was a dead end.

[cancer352]

I would prefer maxiusdor's idea of a gulag ! And send those lazy workers into prison !!!

but by the way, I earn a lot of money by building an oil refinery and sell the products, but only at the beginning of the game. Later on the prices declined by 33 % and that was a main reason for having no money for the rebuilding of the burned train electricity.

[maxiusdor]

I would more build police station which send out police cars and if they are on patrol unemployeed run to the busstations as workers.