help with heating

[Erce]

So heating is the new thing apparently. In this is city the water tank temperature is still too low (expect for the buildings directly in range of the heating plant).
How exactly do I find out where the bottleneck is? Since the two little heating stations are at 80 degrees but the buildings themselves are not, I assume that I need to build the bigger heating stations? Or more of the little ones? Is this correct thinking?

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[johntarmac]

In the little heating dial of each building it tells the size of the hot water tank. For the heating plants and stations this is how much it can supply and for other buildings it is how much it needs.

How I understand it works is this
(example numbers only)
Heating plant can supply 300 ltrs hot water to heating stations.
Heating station can supply 100 ltrs to buildings.
Building requires 10 ltrs to be warm.

So a heating plant can supply 3 heating stations.
Each heating station can supply 10 buildings.

Note; those figures are examples only, each building supplied has a different size hot water tank so you'll need to count all those up.

Hope this helps.

[Vimes]

Originally posted by johntarmac:

In the little heating dial of each building it tells the size of the hot water tank. For the heating plants and stations this is how much it can supply and for other buildings it is how much it needs.

How I understand it works is this
(example numbers only)
Heating plant can supply 300 ltrs hot water to heating stations.
Heating station can supply 100 ltrs to buildings.
Building requires 10 ltrs to be warm.

So a heating plant can supply 3 heating stations.
Each heating station can supply 10 buildings.

Note; those figures are examples only, each building supplied has a different size hot water tank so you'll need to count all those up.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for posting that. Does it factor how cold that the temperature drops to, in the ability to warm the buildings..?
I'm guessing that as it gets colder then the ability for each heating station to warm up x numbers of buildings will be reduced..?

[jon157uk]

I'd like this 'heating' to be optional without it also cancelling out the power lines. It's horrible and I don't like having to use it.

[Erce]

Originally posted by johntarmac:

In the little heating dial of each building it tells the size of the hot water tank. For the heating plants and stations this is how much it can supply and for other buildings it is how much it needs.

How I understand it works is this
(example numbers only)
Heating plant can supply 300 ltrs hot water to heating stations.
Heating station can supply 100 ltrs to buildings.
Building requires 10 ltrs to be warm.

So a heating plant can supply 3 heating stations.
Each heating station can supply 10 buildings.

Note; those figures are examples only, each building supplied has a different size hot water tank so you'll need to count all those up.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the explanation. I think the game is very stingy with the numbers right now. I upgraded the heating stations to big ones, which made the situation better, but apparently now the heating plant is basically at its upper limit. So even for this little town of maybe 4000 people a big heating plant isn't enough.

[johntarmac]

Originally posted by Vimes:

Thanks for posting that. Does it factor how cold that the temperature drops to, in the ability to warm the buildings..?
I'm guessing that as it gets colder then the ability for each heating station to warm up x numbers of buildings will be reduced..?

The heating plant production seems to be related to temperature but if (using the example figures) it is supplying 30 houses then they will be sufficiently warm however low the game temperature drops.

I have add the disclaimer that everything I've said is just my observations :)

[Bartholome Mitre]

Who exactly does need heating? It's seems that houses don't have a hot water tank? The only ones i have seen complaining about the cold seem to be the factories?

[johntarmac]

Originally posted by Bartholome Mitre:

Who exactly does need heating? It's seems that houses don't have a hot water tank? The only ones i have seen complaining about the cold seem to be the factories?

When you open the info window of a residential building it's at the bottom. You may need to scroll down to see it. There is a dial and written on that is how many cubic metres the hot water tank is.

[Argelle]

Existing houses have their own heating (polluting) and "your" buildings need the heating stations.

@johntarmac : your estimate is quite accurate,
heating plant 1050 m3
it will cover ~ 3 heat exchangers 300 m3
one heat exchanger will cover ~40 buildings (7 m3) to ~20 biggers one (16 m3)