Re:A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
by foobarian on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:12PM
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Getting offtopic but I found Mindustry to be a super fun variation of Factorio due to the more adversarial campaign.
Re:A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
by TOMDM on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:16PM
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Yeah, I've recently started another run of Space Ex.
Currently have an isolated grid with some solar/batteries for enough boilers to kick start everything.
As I scale, I'll be using a circuit network to set up a steam battery that'll be able to kick start everything and take the hit on surges of power requirements (looking at you Coronal Mass Ejections).
Dyson Sphere Program (an amazing factory builder game, if you haven't tried it) has similar problems -- but no circuit networks. I haven't yet figured out how to make a robust power generation system that doesn't rely on just alerting the operator that something is going wrong...