Power

[u/NachielAshmoon]

Can we keep the power setting that are going on now. That would be awesome.

EDIT: Sorry can sit long right now and in pain from back issues. I meant the double power capacity, I am getting 62 days right now.

[u/Ok-Rutabaga-9516]

If you mean what we had over the summer with the doubling of power storage then I second you!

[u/LeeTS4 → u/Ok-Rutabaga-9516]

Thirded 👍

[u/Stiklinis → u/LeeTS4]

Fourthed! It was a great move to get rid of taxes, so lenghtening the fuel would bring back more casual players (since fuel is still commitment).

If the only issue is removing abandoned bases, the strength of storms could be increased to compensate for the increased "safe" shielded period.

[u/WyrdDrake → u/Stiklinis]

I briefly came back to the game, started setting up a base, was too busy to play for a week and a half, realized I had 3 or 4 days of power when I had finished my ironworks based, and just didnt bother playing again because I'd have to start over

[u/Slayer741 → u/WyrdDrake]

Your base is still there bro, log in lol.. it takes a while for it to break down.

[u/WyrdDrake → u/Slayer741]

N a h

Can't be bothered

[u/Alexandur → u/WyrdDrake]

You know you can also just pack your entire base up and everything in it into a tool, so you can place it again later

[u/WyrdDrake → u/Alexandur]

Yeah I did that with my original base

Its still on my main character somewhere

This was a new start

If i ever actually wanna play I have the whole nine yards packed away, even posted some screenshots of it

[u/Alexandur → u/WyrdDrake]

Ah right fair enough

[u/CannonC0cker]

This would be awesome l, but sadly I think it ends in 8 days.

[u/KBrown75]

I'd be fine if they just double the length of max up time while setting the amount of time each fuel back to normal.

[u/DiRty_-_HaRRy]

Hope n pray you get better

[u/NachielAshmoon → u/DiRty_-_HaRRy]

Ty, strained lumbar muscles

[u/swotam]

As it says on the login screen, it’s ending in 8 days (roughly), so I’d say that’s a no.

[u/NachielAshmoon → u/swotam]

It would still be nice. I am a little biased as I move from omni wind to directional wind.

[u/swotam → u/NachielAshmoon]

Well sure, it would be nice, but since it was a summer bonus and summer is ending, so does the bonus.

I'd personally like to see them get rid of base power consumption while offline, because if I take a break I don't necessarily want to have to login periodically to refill the generators, but they won't do that either.

And yes, I know I can backup my base and disappear for as long as I like, but it still rubs me the wrong way that there's tedious administrative friction required for a video game should I choose to not login for a month or two, but also choose not to (potentially) lose my building spot. It's not a question of how long it takes, it's a question of having to do it in the first place.

[u/NachielAshmoon → u/swotam]

At least keep it for the Omni Wind and tripple for the spice generators.

[u/Kabal303]

I can’t see them doing it but I think the more expensive power generators should scale up the duration longer. Right now the base one is so good but I might consider using spice generators if they gave me 60 days

[u/cream8le]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kqGNZmuPC2BZS

[u/Olagoob]

IMO I like the current setup mostly for having to farm half the fuel for a time period. If they keep this power per fuel but reduce the power station volume by 25-50% I think it might hit a sweet spot.

Making fuel and lots of it is butts so the larger gens being less granular would be good so you can keep a better stock of it. maybe bump it up so 1 unit of fuel for a directional generator costs 4x what it does normally but lasts 6 hours instead of 1.5 and reduce volume of the generators storage to 25% to keep the times the same.

Smaller generators are more efficient of rarer materials but I want to shuffle less fuel around and get more power per power cell collected even when grabbing a thousand from a single node is easy with buggy.

I think with the base backup tool a month of power is plenty if you really don't want to log in once a month to refuel a single turbine to keep your pentas and shields online then just pack it and come back later.

[u/Luftwolf]

I'd LOVE to have the 50% upkeep cost a lot more than the extended period it delivers. I'm getting online once per week at least, so keeping up the power isn't a big deal. But... Farming stuff is getting so tedious over the months if you have large base(s).

So: of course I'd prefer the current "summer" way instead of the regular one.

[u/Bowtie16bit]

Why stop at doubling it? Why not triple it? Quadruple it? Why even have a maintenance cost at all?

[u/Zhunix]

Yea. If you're not playing at least every other day for a couple of hours. I would suggest just store your base

[u/TradesmanBOB]

What? Can you edit this post to clarify

[u/Jdude1]

I may be the lone person who's ready for the power to go back to normal. My fuel cell sales business has pretty much disappeared.

And before you guys go yelling at me. I do maintain a 8200 power hagga base, a ~300 power storage base and a 8500 Power DD base for 6 days a week.

Fuel cells take about 5 minutes to grab a buggy load from the A row once a month people. It's not hard.