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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0017077 | Stars Beyond Reach | Balance Issue | Jun 4, 2015 2:58 am | Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | |
| Reporter | ptarth | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.871 (Wars of Aggression) | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.874 (Power and Linguistics) | ||||
| Summary | 0017077: Alternative Power Production is too late in the technology tree | ||||
| Description | For the first 75% of a game I use solar or wind. By the time I unlock any better power generation technologies, I effectively unlock them all. So I can skip right to Nuclear or stay solar/wind. The brownouts were caused by crime. Not delayed power production enhancements. The multiplicative bonus on Wind Generators is really good. | ||||
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Thanks! * A variety of changes (detailed below) to when you get various power production technologies and how much they cost. This is particularly relevant in light of the other changes to fix power costs when staffing is low. * Oil Drilling is now an extremely cheap tech, and available right from social level 0, rather than requiring social level 2. ** Oil Power Plants also now individually put out 3x more power and 3x more pollution. ** The Biomass Power Plant now puts out vastly more power, and a lot more pollution, but at a better ratio than oil power. ** Both of these also now cost a lot more crowns. ** Efficient Incineration now costs a little more than a quarter than what it used to, so you can get Biomass Power Plants and Crematoriums much earlier more easily. * The Nuclear Power Plant is now amazing, but costs a ton more, puts out more pollution (but at the best ratio yet of the non-solar/wind options), and now costs a LOT more science and social level to unlock. ** Liquid Lead Cooling (its tech prereq) now comes after Efficient Materials Recovery rather than flight control. ** The changes to this make it WAY easier to handle late-game things like the space victory or artificial volcanos without spamming tons of power plants. * Geothermal Power Plants are now available at social level 4 rather than 6, and they produce a ton more power than before, and at a bit better power to pollution ratio compared to biomass. * The Waste To Energy power plant now produces the same amount of power as a biomass power plant, but at a higher initial construction cost and only very slightly less pollution output. ** However, it has the side benefit of consuming trash. It now consumes 4x more trash than it did in previous versions. ** Plasmafication, which unlocks this, is also now available from social level 7 on instead of 9, and costs about 2/3 as much as it used to. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jun 4, 2015 2:58 am | ptarth | New Issue | |
| Jun 4, 2015 2:58 am | ptarth | File Added: 870 Evucks Brown Out .save | |
| Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0041840 | |
| Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => resolved |
| Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 0.874 (Power and Linguistics) |
| Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Jun 5, 2015 5:13 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
