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Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:52 am
by Staxxy
Maybe it has been thought of before but wouldn't "Energy Output" be more appropriate ?
Like: "Power Output" and "Max Output"
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:13 am
by Dylems
When i started playing this game, I didn't understand what "performance" was, so I agree with that.
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:18 am
by orbito
This should be
Energy Capability (or Output) and Energy Usage (or Drain).
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:24 am
by Darthlawsuit
Power usage
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:36 am
by MF-
Power available, Power used ?
Available power, Used Power ?
Available power, Power ?
I would probably favour the last one.
Energy <something> sounds fishy to me.
I actually had no problem understanding "performance" (Possibly caused by my location
)
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:26 pm
by Pinkishu
I didn't have any real problem understanding "Performance" either xD
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:39 pm
by Staxxy
I didn't neither. But it's just not the right wording. That's a matter of fact and I pointed that out.
If there was plenty of typos in a text, you'd still understand it, but does that makes absolutely no difference on how the text feels ?
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:41 pm
by Pinkishu
Well technically it is right.
Its an engine, an engine has a maximum performance it can run at and has a performance it currently runs at
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:45 pm
by Staxxy
Yes, but we want the power output, not the performance. When you drive a car, do you determin speed using the speedometer, or using the RPM measure ? of course you use the speedometer.
Same thing.
EDIT: To be more clear, when I read about a power plant, I don't care of the speed at which the turbines spin. I just want the POWER OUTPUT.
To add to this suggestion, it'd be nice if instead of a bar, we had numerical informations.
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:36 pm
by Pinkishu
Staxxy wrote:Yes, but we want the power output, not the performance. When you drive a car, do you determin speed using the speedometer, or using the RPM measure ? of course you use the speedometer.
Same thing.
EDIT: To be more clear, when I read about a power plant, I don't care of the speed at which the turbines spin. I just want the POWER OUTPUT.
To add to this suggestion, it'd be nice if instead of a bar, we had numerical informations.
But as far as I know the bar doesn't show the power output? ^^ may be wrong there~
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:42 pm
by Hanse00
Pinkishu wrote:Staxxy wrote:Yes, but we want the power output, not the performance. When you drive a car, do you determin speed using the speedometer, or using the RPM measure ? of course you use the speedometer.
Same thing.
EDIT: To be more clear, when I read about a power plant, I don't care of the speed at which the turbines spin. I just want the POWER OUTPUT.
To add to this suggestion, it'd be nice if instead of a bar, we had numerical informations.
But as far as I know the bar doesn't show the power output?
Agreed, the way I read it that bar doesn't show power output, but the current performance level.
The text could be changed to output, but then the bar should also show something different as those two aren't the same.
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 5:16 pm
by ficolas
I prefer to make calcs and see how many engines I need, than placing some, and hoping it runs fine
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:23 pm
by orbito
These "engines" that are part of a Power Plant. So performance makes less sense than Available Power vs Usage.
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:30 pm
by Dakkanor
on a side note, i'd like some machine that would analyse the power grid and give a readout of:
output power
required power
potentiol maximum power(to account for solar)
maximum drain (to show if EVERYTHING ran at once
steam engines
Solar Panels
laser towers
labs
assemblers
ect...
edit: i fail at using the list thing here
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:42 am
by kovarex
Dakkanor wrote:on a side note, i'd like some machine that would analyse the power grid and give a readout of:
output power
required power
potentiol maximum power(to account for solar)
maximum drain (to show if EVERYTHING ran at once
steam engines
Solar Panels
laser towers
labs
assemblers
ect...
Planned, the gui will be unified more (the radar -like electricity info for all energy-based entities)
Dakkanor wrote:
edit: i fail at using the list thing here
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[list]
[*]output power
[*]required power
[*]potential maximum power(to account for solar)
[/list]
Re: Wording about the engine's "performance"
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:49 am
by Staxxy
One day you'll have to show us your todo list so we can laugh at the absurd length of it.