Electricity

[richb50]

How do I get electricity to the Motor Assembly Line. Both buildings are next to each other

[Hundinger]

There needs to be a road connection between the power station and all buildings that want electricity. It doesn't matter if they are very close or further away from the station, as long as they are in the area of influence which you can see by the color of the road when you click on the station and also by the electric wires if you haven't disabled them.

[20202rick]

Wow. Roads are needed. I didn't know that.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by 20202rick:

Wow. Roads are needed. I didn't know that.

The only service building that doesn't need a road connection is the trade union. All others work with roads, markets, city halls, banks, pubs etc. Paved roads increase their reach, which is always visible by the green color of the roads when you click on the service building.

[Hundinger]

If there is one thing this game sucks at, it's tutorials. There are almost none. Even the campaign fails at teaching many mechanics. Hope they will do that better next time.

[Primigenia]

electricity is being given by the power plant in its area of influence, as you create a street between the plant and the buildings, you should have electricity carried with it, it shows because the streets aren't "naked" anymore but they have electricity poles on and cars are being used instead of carriages

[Emelio Lizardo]

I now can build electricity infrastructure blueprints but some kind of material is missing, represented by a little white box. Why allow the ability to build the infrastructure and deny the ability to build the oil wells from lack of the ability to build the component?

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Emelio Lizardo:

I now can build electricity infrastructure blueprints but some kind of material is missing, represented by a little white box. Why allow the ability to build the infrastructure and deny the ability to build the oil wells from lack of the ability to build the component?

A little white box? You mean concrete? It's a building material that unlocks as soon as you get into the engineer phase and you need it for every engineer related building. I'm puzzled that you even got enough engineers to unlock electricity without having concrete.

[Sarsgamer]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Originally posted by 20202rick:

Wow. Roads are needed. I didn't know that.

The only service building that doesn't need a road connection is the trade union. All others work with roads, markets, city halls, banks, pubs etc. Paved roads increase their reach, which is always visible by the green color of the roads when you click on the service building.

In old world trade unions do need road connections for palace or local departments policies though.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Sarsgamer:

Originally posted by Hundinger:

The only service building that doesn't need a road connection is the trade union. All others work with roads, markets, city halls, banks, pubs etc. Paved roads increase their reach, which is always visible by the green color of the roads when you click on the service building.

In old world trade unions do need road connections for palace or local departments policies though.

Details, details. Just wanted to get across some basics.

Honestly I didn't think of it because I don't build this ugly relic of feudalism.

Just kidding.

But just a little.