Aetherwhisp Power Management

[covertcorvid]

This is a thread for discussion about issues with managing power and engine effects specific to the Aetherwhisp, which is the only map that consistently requires over 4 MW.

[red031000]

since the wisp needs 15MW + 3MW + whatever else for guns + ~1MW to power the ship, it generally requires 2, or 3 engines to run at the same time, with how the engines are coded, and how the whisp is mapped, the ACGNR needs to be run at a lower rate, and the SD at a higher amount, to prevent running out of gas (as no gas miners). Since the SD is a higher rate this almost invariably means that the lights on the whisp burn out

[IndusRobot]

Going to repost since this is still useful feedback

You could still create vars to allow higher max power thresholds that don't cause lights to break on a solgov ship. Then varedit the map engines or create child types of the engines. Right now all the MW threshold checks are hardcoded.

[Karmic-Skink]

Consider the number of tiles need to be run to actually get to your main power sucking devices from the main reactor control room.

Edit: This is assuming standard "solo" play aka not using comms to coordinate

[IndusRobot]

What made you change your mind?

[sunofang]

Often we dont have enough engis to have someone dedicated to those power suckers. Which makes me have to run all that route.

Please add a door

[covertcorvid]

Aerwhisp's no longer maintaining the Aetherwhisp but I'll tackle this

[sunofang]

Having the three power grids seperated seems dumb, If for example the RMBK blows up, Suddenly all the SMES connected to the green power grid dont charge. Most engineers i know just hotwire it roundstart, So having that mapped in seems good.

[covertcorvid]

I'm planning to add doors after the beebase is in. Should I also modify the fuel mix tanks to have a vent pump instead of an injector? It'll make the monitoring console useless for input control, but allow you to control the tank pressure so that it's easier to modify the mix

[red031000]

I mean you could just make injectors control pressure in the same way, y'know (I thought that was already a thing in the UI?)

[IndusRobot]

Injectors let you control the throughput but not regulate the internal pressure. It'll just keep dumping gas in the tile, like a volume pump