There is a gigantic difference between things failing at 80% power satisfaction vs 50% .

>This is similar to the real world. With a blackout/brownout, all kinds of funny stuff will happen with more advanced manufacturing control.

In my expert option, that's 100% nonsense. In the real world, things ...

... was that:

Thanks for the report however this is working as intended. Combinator use the secondary input priority and so other entities get power first before they do.

As far as I’ve ever known, they were not designed to be a critical part of anything.

WTF?????????? How is it acceptable ...

There is a gigantic difference between things failing at 80% power satisfaction vs 50% .

>This is similar to the real world. With a blackout/brownout, all kinds of funny stuff will happen with more advanced manufacturing control.

In my expert option, that's 100% nonsense. In the real world, things ...

... was that:

Thanks for the report however this is working as intended. Combinator use the secondary input priority and so other entities get power first before they do.

As far as I’ve ever known, they were not designed to be a critical part of anything.

WTF?????????? How is it acceptable ...

... And before you mention it, mmPI, I DO remember the very helpful comment you made in your first post here, about getting information about network power by reading an accumulator level, and I thanked you for it. I still thank you for it. It just seemed like what you (and another person or two ...

... And before you mention it, mmPI, I DO remember the very helpful comment you made in your first post here, about getting information about network power by reading an accumulator level, and I thanked you for it. I still thank you for it. It just seemed like what you (and another person or two ...

... is just flat out wrong . How are you even thinking that? (Don't answer that. It's rhetorical.)

I mean, sure, if you don't have enough TOTAL power for your defenses, then they will be overrun. Priority power switches won't save you.


That's exactly what i meant, to make sure you didn't ...

I feel a lot of this is backward, if you want to "see the power usage" to manually handle the load balance you're doing it "wrong", you don't 'need' the vizualization per say, you can make it because you have access to lamps and several way to detect it if you want to make a fancy display, but this ...

I feel a lot of this is backward, if you want to "see the power usage" to manually handle the load balance you're doing it "wrong", you don't 'need' the vizualization per say, you can make it because you have access to lamps and several way to detect it if you want to make a fancy display, but this ...

... issue way better, what with their priority breaker switches and such.

I don't see any issue in the first place. The factory grows, and so does power consumption. Any obsoleted power plant isn't enough as safeguard against brownouts. If you start with a new power plant probably twice to five ...

I see. Well that's all... disappointing.

I find myself thinking that Satisfactory handles this issue way better, what with their priority breaker switches and such. Despite not even having anything comparable to the circuit network in their game.

Oh well. Thanks for answering my question, and for ...

... Exploring the Problem Space:
In his defense, using mouse wheel to change the tile brush quickly while building is one of my favourite interface power tools in the game! It's so handy for those of us who want to be more surgical with our concrete, i.e. who don't pave the world! XD To put it in ...

Increasing internal buffer would also be helpful.

An identical case to Give Combinators Higher Power Priority

It would be useful for critical infrastructure alerts, such as those relating to backup generators, because the Programmable Speaker doesn't trigger alerts when there is insufficient power.

Given how little power a combinator consumes and that there was actually a behavior change around 2.0.65 where combinator's electric buffer was accidentaly reduced from 2x power usage down to 1x power usage, i decided to make combinators have primary power usage and increase their buffer size up to ...

Please de-merge my thread. The merged topic is about consistent behavior under low power, while this one concerns power priority imbalance. That’s not about update logic, it’s about priority. These are different issues and should be tracked separately.
Old threads suggestion: I propose that at the ...

Last time it was said this happens when power goes below 48,54%. Now it happens at 90%?
Last time there was a game play solution: Isolate your important combinators in it's own well backed up power grid.
How is this done on a space platform?

Link to last times technical explanation:
https://forums ...

... until electricity is provided) and logic they are designing depends on them updating every tick, and purposefully allows them to enter into low power state and starts to complain "why are they not updating" then well...

Alowing them to update always even when no power would remove the need to ...

+1

that one quirk is the only reason i use a mechanical (belt and wire) state machine for my kovarex processing.