Wind power change

[Deborah Kobayashi]

as it stands now, wind power is not even a remotely cost effective way to power your nation, the only times that having any wind power at all is cost effective is at 2250 and 4250 infra, and even then only as a single supplemental plant, with the bulk of your power coming from nuclear.

 

Here is my proposed change to wind power, open to suggestions and tweaks, to make it not the "new meta" but still a viable option.

 

Wind power plants can provide power for up to 250 infrastructure per 500 land. [Powered infra=250×(land/500)] They do not require resources to operate. Operational costs are $1000×(land/500) a day  $8×land

This would require you to maintain either 2 wind plants, or double land to power your city.

 

Alternatives & tweak suggestions:

•400 infra per 1000 land (this would require more plants/land to power the same infra levels)

• a cap at the maximum amount a plant can provide (as well as a cap on operational cost reflecting this)

•Base cost for wind plants might need to be increased.

•operational cost formula changed to ($8×land)

(I realized after posting how low my initial operation cost formula is, as i was grossly underestimating nuclear plants' relative usage costs and not factoring their operational cost costs, so this operational cost formula change is my official position on it now) 

Edited December 4, 2020 by Deborah Kobayashi

[AwesomeNova]

Wind power plants right now are useless for most people, so buffing them would make them a viable option for upper-mid to upper tier nation. I’d suggest increasing the cost to build a wind power plant to at or above the cost of a nuclear power plant, as well.

Side note: the formula for powered infra can be simplified to land/2, and the formula for the operational cost can also be simplified to $2*land.

[Callisto]

Have not considered the full ramifications of your suggestions, but it would certainly be nice if Wind Power Plants had more of a use than their current niche. Will certainly look deeper into this suggestion myself.