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https://www.sovietrepublic.net/post/report-for-the-community-67 Priority power switches!
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.sovietrepublic.net/post/report-for-the-community-67 I wonder if the priority is per switch or over the entire network. Per switch is probably the easiest to implement but over the entire network would be a lot more useful; I tend to have generation capability in a lot of different areas, not all feeding into a single switch.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:34
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I would assume per switch, but you could presumably join generators to a sort of main trunk line with lesser priority sources being gated behind low priority switches, and things like solar and wind wired directly in.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:38
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It would be nice if you could arrange your electrical network to prioritise local production and only buy power when you don't produce enough on your own.
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Feb 6, 2023 20:14
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Yes, it sounds like per switch, which isn't great, but better than nothing at this point. Especially if, for example, you can drop a number of wind turbines near where power goes to a town. It would be much nicer if there were a way to more generally set power priorities rather than per switch, but at this point we're starting to reproduce the complexities of the actual power system, such as having different levels of on-demand or stored power sources (which I really would like, especially for solar and such).Philippe posted:It would be nice if you could arrange your electrical network to prioritise local production and only buy power when you don't produce enough on your own. i think that's actually possible, at least to a limited extent. The switches have two forms of priority to set, output priority and input priority. If you can have a general feed line near ish to the border, and hook that to a switch along with your main power line, you can say "prefer power from this source, then use additional power from the other source" The problem is being able to have a large, interconnected power network, where you are able to specify the power draw per source for the entire network over a number of switches at the same time, so that the coal plant will only actually be drawn from if there isn't enough power on the whole, but without requiring an entire chunk of the power network to be routed directly through that area. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 20:16
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Philippe posted:It would be nice if you could arrange your electrical network to prioritise local production and only buy power when you don't produce enough on your own. That is what the new switches are intended to do, you can set priorities for both input and output, so you can set it up to prefer input from your power plants but import from the border if that is not met, as well as to export if all other demands are met.
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Feb 6, 2023 20:16
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Volmarias posted:The problem is being able to have a large, interconnected power network, where you are able to specify the power draw per source for the entire network over a number of switches at the same time, so that the coal plant will only actually be drawn from if there isn't enough power on the whole, but without requiring an entire chunk of the power network to be routed directly through that area. I have the feeling that should be possible by using mostly local power grids, but connecting them together using the priority switches. So mostly you have local demand (and local priorities) but if one grid cannot supply itself for whatever reason, it will start to draw from neighbouring grids and their priorities for generation will dictate how they supply that demand. As with many things it seems like it will emphasise network design.
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Feb 6, 2023 20:22
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Apparently the maker of a cosmonaut guide is suing the developers? https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/784150/view/3647388792201529684?l=english
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Feb 10, 2023 04:11
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Just let the lawyers handle it god drat
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Feb 10, 2023 04:50
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euphronius posted:Just let the lawyers handle it god drat Seriously, I imagine like this kind of " I recommend that the cosmonaut author cry exactly one (1) manly tear, then continue onwards towards greatness, as they themselves suggest.
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Feb 10, 2023 05:34
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euphronius posted:Just let the lawyers handle it god drat This, for real. They've been so professional and nice about everything they've done and this blogpost makes me really go "What the gently caress are you guys doing?" I don't think it probably puts them in any trouble, but what the gently caress lol. It's a legal issue, pay the lawyer and don't think about it again. If anything, Mad Blogs could set off some edge idiots in the community.
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Feb 10, 2023 05:42
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Apparently the guy's a lawyer (or at least is claiming to be) and has also been DMCAing youtube channels for playing in 'his' mode without giving him credit. They say they're worried that he's gone to Steam to try to get the game taken off it, and with their website down, their youtube channel getting strikes, and them not having an active twitter presence, it looks like they're running out of ways to actually communicate with the community. If it does get taken off Steam they'd have no way left to tell people what's going on. The sort of theories that'd pop up to fill the silence could easily turn into an even worse PR nightmare than what's actually happening.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:02
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On the one hand I agree it's dumb to blog post about a spat with a community member but on the other their own website has been taken down and so have YouTube videos promoting the game, that's pretty rough on a small dev studio like this. YouTube is notorious for not following up on false DMCA claims and who knows how long it'll take to get their website back online. I'd be pretty worried in their situation if the guy is trying to get Steam to remove the game.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:10
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I support them being mad fully, and I highly doubt small (🥺) computer people in Slovakia are familiar with the concept of needing to pay lawyers to deal with crazy. They're way to non-corporate for that. I'm not going to hold a single thing against them as they ride this out.
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Feb 10, 2023 17:45
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Same, gently caress that guy
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Feb 10, 2023 17:50
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Don’t get me wrong. gently caress that guy. And hey if the mad blog helps them rally the community and weaken the Cosmonaut dude, then great.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:12
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Steam may be ironically the right choice to nip this in the bud if they can get their attention. I haven't read the EULA because lol who has. But I would be surprised if Steam doesn't own guide content copyright.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:18
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zedprime posted:Steam may be ironically the right choice to nip this in the bud if they can get their attention. I haven't read the EULA because lol who has. But I would be surprised if Steam doesn't own guide content copyright. If that’s true there’s a bunch of websites they could nuke because if you Google a steam guide it often pops up wholesale copied on some sketchy non steam website full of ads.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:23
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I had a second thought and that's probably not true because of Web 2.0isms about sites hosting user content and not being held liable. Just need to lawyer up and counter claim that the text of the guide is not in the DMCAed media. Sucks.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:25
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apparently he is also claiming that their adding a feature similar to Cosmonaut Mode constitutes breach of contract somehow this is even dumber than modder drama since at least a person who made a mod actually made a tangible thing, this dude is throwing a tantrum because he didn't get paid for suggesting an idea, one that he was definitely not the only person to suggest either
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Feb 10, 2023 18:44
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you cant copyright game mechanics anyway. what a loving loser.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:51
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punishedkissinger posted:you cant copyright game mechanics anyway. what a loving loser. This, and I doubt that this is the first person who wrote to steam because the devs "stole" their idea. I think the game is relatively safe, but then again Valve's developer support is also not great. Also the idea is just "don't push these buttons", the actual game mode does a bunch of poo poo in the codebase that was not part of the idea.
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Feb 11, 2023 00:30
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The guy likely has no standing but that won't stop him from causing real harm to the devs by getting stuff taken down (with possible long reviews before recovering it) and also people just looking into the game and seeing claims the developers "stole" the idea and not wanting to buy it.
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Feb 11, 2023 00:37
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If "making game harder by not pressing buttons" is a stealable idea, cosmonaut mode guy better watch out for pannenkoek sliding backwards at the speed of light to break his kneecaps with a crowbar
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Feb 11, 2023 01:05
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I would literally just pay the guy to go away
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Feb 11, 2023 01:12
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euphronius posted:I would literally just pay the guy to go away I think the guy would like that very much actually, and gently caress that guy.
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Feb 11, 2023 01:18
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straight to gulag
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Feb 11, 2023 01:25
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The guy is a big enough dweeb to think writing a game guide entitles him to rights to the game that he would probably ask for like 1 million dollars or 25% of game sales, something equivalently dumb.
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Feb 11, 2023 01:31
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tommy tallarico has one weird trick to repay his amico debts
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Feb 11, 2023 01:36
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Especially given the “voice” he wrote the guide with I feel like I know the type. There’s probably not a lot to do to please him. I’d bet he’s more pissed some dude is a “famous” youtuber with his idea at gameplay even though he himself doesn’t want to put in the effort to record, edit, and be entertaining. Who knows though, I’m talking out of my rear end.
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Feb 11, 2023 02:28
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OwlFancier posted:there is a pair of little boxes on the right hand side of the screen that are the "beyond the border" offices where the gently caress are these buttons!!!! E: Silly, they only pop up if you enable Realistic mode as a setting. I'm playing essentially respecting realistic, but I hate having it permanently enabled for when I get frustrated by something and want to press buy - not to mention cosmetics that are near impossible to build in realistic. E2: And also you can't use them to buy ships and send them to a dock? Anime Store Adventure fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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Feb 14, 2023 06:43
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Nope, which sucks for cosmonaut. I think it's so you can't skip building docks.
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Feb 14, 2023 13:18
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Yeah if you could do that then there would be basically no reason for a dock to exist.
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Feb 14, 2023 19:14
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The game's store page is gone from Steam. quote:UPDATE 2023/02/16 What the gently caress.
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Feb 16, 2023 15:58
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I hope Valve wakes the gently caress up on this because that seems like a pretty serious issue if customers posting walkthroughs is sufficient evidence for entire games being removed from the store.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:02
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That's bullshit. Some rear end in a top hat can just DMCA an entire game they're not otherwise involved with? How does any game stay up, then?
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Feb 16, 2023 16:16
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Log082 posted:That's bullshit.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:23
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What the gently caress! So bizarre.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:24
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Cripes.
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Are you loving kidding me
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