Energy Park

[Skanky Burns]

I made a large energy park and crawlered it. Then I raised the land and still didn't get any problems. Maybe I'm just lucky.

[Santiago_Claus]

OMG, I can't believe anyone around here still remembers me!

I haven't been around here nor played any AC for years!

The Latin handle, in addition to having long ago expired, was horribly misspelled, so I switched to "Santiago Claus", which also, sadly, is horribly misspelled.

Hmm ... this is a longshot, but would you happen to know to what "Santiago Claus" refers?

Oh, right, energy parks without crashes: Do Not Disturb. Don't look up resource values on the map (you've memorized those anyway, right?), and don't touch your supply crawlers once you've started them harvesting. If I remember correctly, you can cancel harvesting on a corrupted map square, but if you try to begin again you get a crash. Leave your crawlers where you put 'em. No peeking, either: if you move the cursor over a corrupted map square which is being harvested the system will crash, because a reference is made to the energy value of the map square in order to show the supply crawler's stats in the unit window.

By the way, accessing corrupted map squares from the zoomed-in base view won't cause a crash. Something about the map itself rather than the actual game data seems to be what gets corrupted.

[Sikander]

I don't know what Santiago Claus means other than the obvious play on words.

Oh, and welcome back.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Yep I 'member you Vin Vidi Vic. Welcome back.

Santiago Clause, Disney film where Tim Allen gets transformed into a survivalist woman freak and moves her Montana Militia to the North Pole?

[Santiago_Claus]

Ahh, yes, here it is:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8379

If I really want that to work I have to use UBB, don't I?

https://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8379

[Method]

my energy park...it's a little shaky in the southwest because there's some bases there and i didnt' want to put mirrors in their radius, and putting mirrors all the way long the outside is questionable...but it gives some good returns.

Originally inteded to be 5x5, but i just kept on expanding it due to my Obsessive Building Disorder

[Santiago_Claus]

That's a bright plateau you've got there.

If you place the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra atop the monolith at just the right time, will it focus the reflected light of the Echelon Mirrors into a beam of light that points out the last resting place of the ... err, wait, that's in a big warehouse back on Earth, isn't it? Never mind. I'm digging in the wrong place.

[Vev]

That map corruption bug. Yeah, annoyed the heck out of me.

Besides crashing, it also gives the incorrect value.

One method that may or may not work is to open one of your bases first, exit, then check the tile information.

[Santiago_Claus]

Checking from the base works; checking on the map crashes. It's something to do with the map, maybe the map UI or the way the map UI is linked to the game database.

[Vev]

Yeah, just tested it out. If you check one of your bases first, it seems to set the ownership of the terrain improvements correctly and afterwards, you can view the tile without the program crashing.

[Skanky Burns]

I'm amazed that after all these years we are still discovering things.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Method
my energy park...it's a little shaky in the southwest because there's some bases there and i didnt' want to put mirrors in their radius, and putting mirrors all the way long the outside is questionable...but it gives some good returns.

I thought that Echelon Mirrors increase the energy output of adjacent Solar Collector squares? Why building so much Echelon Mirrors then? It's no use...

[Jamski]

Because they stack. 2 Mirrors increases by 2, 3 mirrors by 3...

By building them like this, each solar collector is next to 6 or even more mirrors. 10+ energy per tile is not unusual.

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

Of course it would be so much more efficient if the solar collectors went all the way to the bottom and top rows of the park - you lose 4 energy bonus in that square to add 1 to the solar above it. Still, a very impressive park there.

[Skanky Burns]

The top right hand side should also be completed - a row of solars there will be quick to make and net you quite a lot of energy.