Greatnate Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 (edited) When would be a good time to transition to other types of power? At least compared to coal, I would say maybe when the city has 1,200 infra (payback is about 60 days), but definitely when the city has 1,600 infra (payback is 30 days). Edit: I mean nuclear, I can't imagine wind power being useful until you have a large surplus of city slots. Edited December 10, 2014 by Greatnate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prez Khan Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Pollution is a problem, wind can easily minimize that. Wind doesn't consume resources and depending on the volume of sales, the resource you produce, if you can sell at a good price, wind can prove to be cost effective in a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoS Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Yes, but losing 5 slots for every 1k infra is much worse than pollution until your slot count and population gets very large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naTia Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 ^ This Pollution is easily mitigated up to 1k infra, and even after that, nuclear power plants are worth the money the whole way. Wind power is cost effective when there is nothing more cost effective in that city. Basically, wind provides an invaluable resource (power) for next to nothing, but if the potential for income is higher with another power source, wind power is not worth the investment. Quote Resident DJ @ Club Orbis Founder of The Warehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanTheGreat19 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I think that if you are a large coal powered nation, and you switch over to wind it would cost a lot, however you would have coal to sell on the market that would give you a lot more income and wind would pay off Quote Ist Anschluss Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodo Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I burn oil. Eff the environment. Rabble rabble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNG Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Nuclear power is what you use when someone "accidentally" sets your oil wells on fire. Smell that? Its the sweet scent of energy independence. (Also, I demand Sheepy add in an "immolate wellheads" option for wartime/peacetime.) Quote "They say the secret to success is being at the right place at the right time. But since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Kastor> He left and my !@#$ nation is !@#$ed up. And the Finance guy refuses to help. He just writes his !@#$ plays. <Kastor> And laughs and shit. <Kastor> And gives out !@#$ huge loans to Arthur James, that !@#$ bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972ford Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 maybe one day my nation will be green oh wait its already on the green spere. wind power would be awesome though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alataq Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 NAH. Coal PP ftw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greene Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I'm still really favorable to the whole nuclear angle I've got going. Its really great and I've already seen a massive increase in the resources I am able to produce as a result of not having to bog down my improvement slots with extra power plants or the coal mines to support them. Quote Formerly known as Grealind of Resvernas (28 October 2014-29 August 2017) and Greene of Japan (29 August 2017-28 Septmber 2017) 7th Caretaker of Duat, the Deity Thoth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackAsLight Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 nuclear power is better then the others in my opinion, but with my nation being in a region that doesn't produce uranium it gets annoying having to spend so much money on uranium. i would prefer if there was a new source of power that didn't take resource but just a lot of money to keep it running and was equal to nuclear power on how much infra it powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooner Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 ^A Zimbabwe Dollar Furnace. Also, nice mega-necro dude. Quote ☾☆ High Priest of Dio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spear Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 What is the best combination of power/cost for a larger nation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatnate Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 What is the best combination of power/cost for a larger nation? Below 1,000 infra/city - Oil. Between 1,000-2,000 infra/city - Nuclear. Between 2,000-3,000 infra/city - Nuclear + Wind, i.e, 1 nuclear plant for the first 2,000 + 1 wind plant per 250 infra above that. Somewhere above 3,000 infra/city going full wind is advisable, but realistically nobody should hit that point. Infra is extremely expensive that that point and almost all improvements will already by maxed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernie Sanders The 2nd Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 nuclear power is better then the others in my opinion, but with my nation being in a region that doesn't produce uranium it gets annoying having to spend so much money on uranium. i would prefer if there was a new source of power that didn't take resource but just a lot of money to keep it running and was equal to nuclear power on how much infra it powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaik Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 But if everybody uses wind power, the amount of wind will go down and Orbis will stop spinning, halting the creation of gravity and everyone will float off into space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyStroke Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Your physics is way off. The rotation of a planet is not the source of the gravity of that planet. If it were then Venus would have next to no gravity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Scandanavia Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 oil ftw in new nations Quote The Great Emperor of New Scandinavia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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