What does power actually do?

[Pickles78uk]

I cant find it in the really crappy civolopedoia (is that the right spelling?)

so what does power actually do?

tom

[Bill3000]

Adds 25% more production to the factory improvement.

[xxFlukexx]

Actually, that's not correct. Even the hover description over the factory can be easily mistaken if you read it fast.

A factory gives +25% production, -1 healthy face, and ability to turn 2 citizens into engineers.

Any type of power in a city with a factory will give you an additional +50% production. All of these bonuses are applied to base production value. For example a city with a forge and a factory and a coal plant with 15 base hammers will have 15 +100% = 30 hammers per turn.

You can give power to a city by coal plants if you have the coal resource, nuclear plants if you have the uranium resource, hydro plants if your city is on a river tile, and the Three Gorges Dam wonder gives power to every city on that continent.

[Dis]

don't you have to have a factory to build a power plant? (possible exception being if you build 3 gorges)

[xxFlukexx]

Yes, all of the plants require a factory to be built in that city.

[MasterDave]

I do not think you need coal to make coal plants. I beleive that anyone with Assembly Line tech can make them.

[Datajack Franit]

if they are called COAL plants, it's because they need COAL to work. Otherwise they would be called whatever plants

[MasterDave]

Then they should change the name, cuz you can build em without owning a coal resource.

[oxmonsta]

Whilst you can build them without having a coal resource, they won't actually provide you power (ie, the bonus to your hammers) unless you have a coal resource. Same goes for nuclear plants and the uranium resource.

[Dis]

I think if you have the pig resource you should be able to burn pig feces for power plants.

[Axxaer]

Re: What does power actually do?

Originally posted by Pickles78uk
crappy civolopedoia (is that the right spelling?)

'crappy civilopedia'

[Bluefusion]

Originally posted by Dis
don't you have to have a factory to build a power plant? (possible exception being if you build 3 gorges)

The 3 gorges dam does give all your cities power regardless of whether they have a factory or not.

What I have yet to discover is if you still get the benefits of having power in cities in which you haven't constructed factories (e.g. do cities with power that only have a forge get a bonus from the power?)

[Dr. Trespasser]

pig feces, poo power. They have a few of those operations around, I think they extract methane and use that as the power source.

[JonahFalcon]

Thank you, Master Blaster.

Now, WHO RUNS BARTER TOWN?