u/Odd-Independence8002

Hi all,

This is a crude but working (work in progress) calculator for those who want to use solar and batteries.

https://github.com/lastinvisibleknight-cmd/Icarus_powercalcv1

Download and run the html in most browsers

I will eventually expand it to include other power and more devices, but for now, I hope this helps a few people with spec'ing their bases.

Quick explanation

Change panel and advanced battery amounts

Set your real time recorded 24 hours in game, I've default set 102 minutes suggested by someone in a post

Set the day night ratio, default 0.5 (1/2 the time) as a slider.

Set how many of each device and it's duty cycle with a slider, for example a water pump or deep freeze should always be 1 (100% always on) but you might only use a manufacturer for 5% of the time.

There are checks to tell you if you have enough solar panels to charge fully in the daylight based on your load, and if you'd last the night.

This is NOT perfect, just a start

https://preview.redd.it/f0lsj2635yhh1.png?width=1927&format=png&auto=webp&s=2011c951e67c647fafd2145e7c04ec5f56c1d080

I'm a big fan of oil drills for the passive speed collection and lack of wiring going around but it occurs to me I've read and tried most of the ways to deal with oil collection, but interested in numerically comparing the needs of each on power usage and oil rate basis.

That is, what are the trade-offs numerically? Is one of these faster than the other but uses way more power? Is the very long pipeline the winner with the catch of a long ugly pipeline? Is organic actually faster once setup up, given it can be scaled (almost) infinitely?

Option 1, setup satellite bunkers running either an oil generator or solar panels and mule oil barrels either by mount or drop pod, or even an outpost/second main base nearby

Option 2, organic setup with crop plots, plants and multiple organic extractors running off base power

Option 3, a very long pipeline back to main base

** edit, I know the pros and cons for each method, I'm looking to optimise more than anything, so I do appreciate there are a lot of pros and cons, it's more about the numbers for me as I run oil drills **

I hope this doesn't come across as too out of place, but...

I have many building pieces that cannot be deconstructed due to geometry access limits allowing placement but not deconstruction. That number has grown every time I try a new ramp that turns out to be inefficient (oh the irony) or just suboptimal by the time I get near the end. It might seem trivial, but with the game engine limits, I'd rather clean them up, and no storm is killing a random limestone ramp buried in a hill, nor a few hundred over the course of a long standing open world.

It would be truly amazing to be able to open the map in a CAD package, or some viewer, and delete these nefarious frame suckers.

How does everyone else deal with them? I haven't tried shooting them yet, just know the repair tool can't access them to find the sweet spot of deconstruction.

I don't want to subvert the tree rejuvenation or the ore nodes, although that would be handy in an all in one, but it strikes me as the missing link to FPS woes is cleanup, and while I don't grudge the time, I grudge the inability to actually complete it.

If not, I might start a new open world and use the previous mess to learn from mistakes but would be good to cleanup.

Anyone else, any hardcore coders up for a challenge?

Thought I'd start a thread for opinions on this. Specifically, a steel ingot use to make 100 steel screws, now it's 10.

I don't like the change, that is my opinion. What does everyone else think?

So might be normal, but I have to ask because it's odd.

Is the Sandworm Queen supposed to respawn? I had her respawn while the original corpse was still laying on the ground. Is she supposed to respawn at all, let alone immediately on returning to the area of the biome after her defeat.

Ok, so I understand debuffs and I've been here a while, but I thought I'd look at the numbers and it doesn't add up.

My standard water consumption of 300per hour get's bumped to 2160, that's not +250%

Bug, or is my math that bad?

Ok, love the concept and so far mostly so good, but..............

I've hit the same node more than 50 times now and still no Oxite. Can anyone confirm you can get any resource on any node? I'm on an outpost and I know I can mine the nodes but I wanted a full complement of deep mines.

Anyone had oxite on an outpost with the deep cycler? Arcwood if that helps.

I misread another post here, so I'm going to start this one.

Open world doesn't require the use of the drop pod to return to space and doing so means you have to join the open world you started when you want to return.

Is there any memory or other advantages of using the drop pod versus returning to character select screen? I haven't experienced any memory issues, aside from excessive slinkers on screen sometimes, or graphics card bottlenecks moving too fast.

Is there something I'm missing, or is it just a legacy feature maintained due to the mission based play style alternative to open world, that was the original game?