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Wind Turbines! Wind Turbines are another source of energy! They produce no pullution, just like solar panels, but produce energy at night!
So.. are they overpowered solar panels? No! Their production oscillates depending on the wind speed.

I seperated them into 5 tiers - the basic one which can be built without any research and is a pollution free way to produce energy in the early game, but gives as little as 20kW, so you will need a wind-park to get the energy of a steam engine, while the highest tier with up to 5.2MW can produce more than 10 steam engines together and also saves a lot of space, boilers and coal in comparison.
The higher tiers are built by combining 4 lower tier Wind Turbines, together with some science-packs!
The higher tier Wind Turbine will produce a little bit less than the 4 lower Wind Turbines, so upgrading is only useful if you want to save space.

Just to empathize this: The power-value in the description is the maximum possible production value. The average production will be around half of that and can even go down to 0, if no wind blows.
Wind Turbines aren't meant to be the only energy production in your base, but they are a very nice addition to solar panels to produce clean energy.
Version 1.0.3 for Factorio 14.x+ (downwards compatible to 0.13)
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PS: This mod is created as a standalone-expansion of this mod, which has the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

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One small point,

When you source assets and code from other mods, you have to make sure you comply with their license,
In this case the original mod is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5),
which means you must attribute the original author, and include this license with your work

Apart from that it looks like a solid mod, nice graphics and really well coded

Oh okay, I didn't know I have to do that in wich this license, thanks for the advice.
I added that to the original post.

In terms of balance generally speaking for higher tier things you should pay about four times as much to double output. For example the assembler 2 costs twice as much as the assembler 1, but is only 50% faster, and the Assembler 3 costs 7x as much as the Assembler 2, and is only 67% faster

So if you want the cost effectiveness to be in line with the base game, the output progression should probably be something like:
20MW
40MW
80MW
160MW
320MW

BlakeMW wrote:So if you want the cost effectiveness to be in line with the base game, the output progression should probably be something like:
20MW
40MW
80MW
160MW
320MW

I assume you mean kW, not MW - but yea, I get your point, but it is only true for processing stuff.
Energy generation can always just be built in huge amount, scaling linearly because there are no higher tiers.
I want to allow not having a baseball field full of wind turbines to get a factory running, so I guess it makes sense to quadruple production along with cost. Cost should maybe be a little bit higher to make up for the "saved space" advantage, but other than that it seems fine imo.

How does the turbines fit into the priority use system?

Currently first Solar Energy is used, then Steam Energy and lust the energy from accumulators.
Where do the Wind Turbines fit in? Do they count as Solar, Steam or Accumulator?

Yinan wrote:How does the turbines fit into the priority use system?

Currently first Solar Energy is used, then Steam Energy and lust the energy from accumulators.
Where do the Wind Turbines fit in? Do they count as Solar, Steam or Accumulator?

Wind turbines are used before steam engines, and after solar panels

Wonderful, thanks for the info!

I can give you some advice about logic and beauty of the game :

• Avoid using science packs for something else than technology, circuits, advanced circuit and processing units a great for that.
• I think graphics should be more sophisticated, for my point of view they feel rushed.

Looks like.

I can only really recommend to upload the mods into the forum as attachment. So you get also a counter about downloads.

Or upload to github, and use a page like this:

http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/

To be able to pull download amounts.

Looks like a great mod, but as noted by others the download page goes nowhere.

Nerevar wrote:Looks like a great mod, but as noted by others the download page goes nowhere.

You can download the original here: viewtopic.php?f=93&t=16734

is it ok if i repostet the file ?
if not pls say and i will delete the post

Edit: the mod developer has the file reuploaded.

Schlubberwuz wrote:is it ok if i repostet the file ?
if not pls say and i will delete the post

License == Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

You stated it as a repost thus attribution is obvious as being the OP. AKA: you fulfilled license requirements for distribution and no specific permission is needed (nor can it even be denied). Thats why licenses exist. Follow them and you're fine.

y.petremann wrote:I can give you some advice about logic and beauty of the game :

• Avoid using science packs for something else than technology, circuits, advanced circuit and processing units a great for that.
• I think graphics should be more sophisticated, for my point of view they feel rushed.

Any reason to avoid science packs?

Well, the graphics are rushed - if someone has better graphics, let me know!

hey, i see you have a update, can you pls post the changes (like the other mods)?

thank you

Edit: Issue Fixed.