Accumulator charge % in Electric network info
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:11 am
Graphing the percent capacity of accumulators would show when more accumulators are needed, and how close you were to running out on previous nights.
The user could check a box that would add the graph to the power chart, always scaled to 100% (top) and 0% (bottom), overlaid on the production chart. Alternatively, it could be without a checkbox and have its own chart.
To go even further, an extension of this idea would be to also track total stored steam or total combined heatpipe and nuclear core heat energy, but these are a little more complex to utilize for the user.
It's very easy to forget to check accumulator charge at night, and you have to check at the exact right moment when it is at a minimum (sometime in early morning, if you are using solar). A graph would help users to manage power in an intuitive way, and they could plan and design their power network on their own time, without having to check the accumulator charge every single night or else overbuild. Overall, it would be a nice quality of life feature that fits in with the other charts available in Factorio.
The user could check a box that would add the graph to the power chart, always scaled to 100% (top) and 0% (bottom), overlaid on the production chart. Alternatively, it could be without a checkbox and have its own chart.
To go even further, an extension of this idea would be to also track total stored steam or total combined heatpipe and nuclear core heat energy, but these are a little more complex to utilize for the user.
It's very easy to forget to check accumulator charge at night, and you have to check at the exact right moment when it is at a minimum (sometime in early morning, if you are using solar). A graph would help users to manage power in an intuitive way, and they could plan and design their power network on their own time, without having to check the accumulator charge every single night or else overbuild. Overall, it would be a nice quality of life feature that fits in with the other charts available in Factorio.