Tips: How does energy work?

[YoMama]

Could we get a more concise, graphical representation of what you mean here?

I have had power generators maxed out close to a weapons station, and it wasn’t helping — it was drawing from the station.

Actually it wasn’t until I read a review of this game that I found out that you need power generators to power weapon stations (figure a branch off a power line with a missile launcher and a pair of laser turrets), and that the space station (base) can only power 3 "branches" at a time.

In short, we need a more comprehensive explanation. In 25 words or less, I could describe this game as cool, but difficult, and not difficult in a fun way. More like tedious.

Let’s see: to get the weapons I need just to barely eek it out, I have had to buy a Laser Turret (50), Missile Launcher (300), Interceptor Laser (150), just bought a Rail Cannon (500), Power Generator (300), Power Storage (150), one level of Increase Total Station Max Power (60), one level of Increase Power Recharge (70), two Auto Station Defense Laser Turrets (300), and one Emergency Battery (200). In my head calcuations that is 2080 credits.

sheesh and I don’t get much past 29 minutes in the Very Easy / Fixed mode in Survival, when "D-Day" crew shows up. And then have to do it 3 more times over again just to get a power generator.

[Paul]

Hi, and welcome! I’ll try and clear it up a bit for you.

As it says in the original post, each weapon will draw power from its closest generator [i:3u01w8k0]as long as it has power.[/color:3u01w8k0][/i:3u01w8k0] So if you have lots of weapons that are firing attached to one generator, then yes, it’s very possible for it to pull power from the station instead. You can see when a generator is out of power because it has a blue power bar. Also, generators will not pull power from other generators, they will only recharge by generating power themselves.

"YoMama":3u01w8k0 wrote:

Actually it wasn’t until I read a review of this game that I found out that you need power generators to power weapon stations (figure a branch off a power line with a missile launcher and a pair of laser turrets), and that the space station (base) can only power 3 "branches" at a time.[/quote:3u01w8k0]
Power generators aren’t required for weapons, all structures can use the main station as long as they are connected to it and it has spare power. Also, the main station can have four connections to it.

As for how to earn credits for the shipyard, that’s slightly off-topic and there are some good suggestions in the strategy thread about this (playing mining modes on hard difficulty settings is a good way for example).

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