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Energy Drop- Boils and Engines
Energy Drop- Boils and Engines
I am looking for help with my energy production. Everything was going well, but then it seemed my energy production dropped off. I added more boilers and generators, but the generators are working at 50% productivity (see image). Any suggestions on how to increase energy production? I have 2 pumps running to 8 generators.
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Re: Energy Drop- Boils and Engines
Hi, I see no problem in your image. Performance should be low as it is a measure of how hard your engines are working to supply power to everything. When performance is full, is when you need to worry about getting more power.
Re: Energy Drop- Boils and Engines
This is how it is supposed to work 
They only output as much energy as needed, think of it as an automatic limiter that prevents sending too much energy through the power lines and burning them up or blowing circuits on the machines (at least that's how I think of it).
If the Performance meter starts getting maxed out that means you are very close to not having enough power for everything (and soon all the machines will start to slow down), on the other hand if the Available Performance starts dropping then you have a slightly bigger problem, typically not enough water (pipes can only accept water from a max of 3 pumps) or it's not hot enough (add boilers). I like having Performance between 50-80% depending on if I intend to be building energy intensive machines soon (50 if so, 80 if not), that means I didn't waste time setting power gen up but I have enough to place more machines without having to immediately check that everything is still powered when I do. Available should be 100% at all times however.
They only output as much energy as needed, think of it as an automatic limiter that prevents sending too much energy through the power lines and burning them up or blowing circuits on the machines (at least that's how I think of it).
If the Performance meter starts getting maxed out that means you are very close to not having enough power for everything (and soon all the machines will start to slow down), on the other hand if the Available Performance starts dropping then you have a slightly bigger problem, typically not enough water (pipes can only accept water from a max of 3 pumps) or it's not hot enough (add boilers). I like having Performance between 50-80% depending on if I intend to be building energy intensive machines soon (50 if so, 80 if not), that means I didn't waste time setting power gen up but I have enough to place more machines without having to immediately check that everything is still powered when I do. Available should be 100% at all times however.