[Balance][Request] Power Balance.

[flaxbeard]

[Balance][Request] Power Balance.

[Flaxbeard]

Newest update has added config defaults and adjusted Pumpjack cost

[calloatti]

You can modify values in immersivepetroleum.cfg

# The Flux the Pumpjack requires each tick to pump
I:pumpjack_consumption=2048

# A modifier to apply to the energy costs of every Distillation Tower recipe
D:distillationTower_energyModifier=1.0

[tahg]

Do those values appear by default? Looking at my config file now, and this is the whole file:

# Configuration file

general {
    # Display chunk border while holding Core Samples
    B:sample_displayBorder=true

    machines {
    }

}

[calloatti]

Maybe it changed in the latest version? Try deleting the config file so it regenerates.

[Flaxbeard]

I can toy with this more tomorrow and Tuesday, but for now here's a spreadsheet with current power amounts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H3XLfaV20p6J7oleLi1p-zZDc-UO5LaXM-EIHsTMuB0/edit?usp=sharing. With a 1:1 ratio of Pumpjacks to Diesel Generators you should be making a net 1640 RF/tick per pumpjack.

[Rosethorns]

I dunno what to tell you, the sheet checks out. So really the problem here is that I'm running one more jack than I should which would put me up to about 3k IF/t But even then 1,6 per generator spare? I just doesn't check out when compared with bio diesel. "So just use bio diesel" But I want a reason to use IP :P

Lets compare this to bio Diesel. 10 IF/t for the Refinery 80 IF/t for the Squeezer 80 IF/t for the Fermenter.
170 IF/t for the works.
A Refinery running full time can sustain 2 generators also running full time.

Meaning a surplus of power of 8022 IF/t Not including the running of cloches to feed the squeezer and fermenter but those are also negligibly cheap.

to reach a surplus of ~8022 IF/t using Immersive Petroleum you need 5 pump jacks a distill tower and 5 generators. Its just not comparable in resources, time or effort.

I realize once the config issues are sorted out I can change things myself but I plead with you to rethink the default.

Tahg did some real world comparisons and came back to me saying that a pumpjack is fairly cheap to run and with equivalence should be at around 233 IF/t but said round up to 256 IF/t to make it a nice figure.

Even then the cost of running a IP system is still more costly than the inbuilt bio diesel method.

[Flaxbeard]

I've been talking in the Discord and I'm thinking I'll reduce the operating cost of the Pumpjack to half of what it currently is - that should provide what I see as a suitable power margin that would be about double the net power of a similar sized biodiesel setup per mB, or about 2700 IF/t.

I also plan on adding other distillation outputs, meaning that you won't just get power from processing oil, but usable resources.

[calloatti]

While you are changing things in the config file, how about adding to each comment the default value?

# A modifier to apply to the time of every Distillation recipe. Can't be lower than 1 (default=1.0)

A simple change that helps restoring things to default when we mess up.

[Flaxbeard]

Ah, good idea