Energy Reserve Bug?

[cysten]

Hi I am playing as Morgan in Alien Crossfire. A standard sized map. I have about 7 - 9 bases.

I recently got the economic victory tech and have switched most of my bases to stockpile energy and 100% energy on the SE.

I get my reserves up to 3000 (I need about 7000) and it stops. I should be getting 300+ a turn but my energy reserves do not increase.

Is there some rule I do not know about? Or is this a bug?

[Petek]

Hi cysten,

Welcome to Apolyton!

Regarding your situation:

Are random events enabled in your game? One of the random events will cause your energy reserves to decrease.

Can you post a save file of the game in question? Someone might be able to figure out what is happening.

Petek

[cysten]

Here it is. Random events are turned on. This is crossfire 2.0 (official release).

[Petek]

I opened your save file and played several turns. Morgan's energy reserves do increase each turn. The exact amount varies, but it's around 100 EC/turn. That's less than the projections on some of the screens, but it does increase for me. Are you saying that the ECs don't increase at all for you?

[cysten]

When it happened it tapered off to no increase around 3500. I was so disgusted that I did not save my game.
I reloaded and the same thing happened around the same time. Again I was so irritated I did not save.

The save is a recent attempt. As you amass more reserves the income tapers off. I think if you spend any you will get some income back.

[Hagen0]

I checked your save. What's happening is that the governeurs of your bases rush buy parts of their current projects without informing you.

[cysten]

Ahh...

So this implies there is some algorithm tied to energy reserves?

[Petek]

Good catch by Hagen0 regarding rush buying! One of the options in the Governor Settings screen allows you to toggle Governor may HURRY production on or off. In your game, all of the base governors are allowed to hurry production. Toggling the setting to off increases your ECs/turn.

[jez9999]

Wow, does anyone actually use governors to manage bases? I know the manual says you should, but I disagree. Governors are terrible.

[waab]

Wow, does anyone actually use governors to manage bases? I know the manual says you should, but I disagree. Governors are terrible.

You are correct the governors are useless.

[cysten]

I use them to manage my specialists so I don't have to manage drone riots or terraforming adjustments. I have building notifications turned off so I turn on governors for building facilities and fill up the queue. This way if I forget to refill the queue the governors will build something (build and discover priorities). Combined with automated formers this cuts down on like 80% of the micro. Although I hear automated formers do a poor job.

I was playing as Morgon so I turned on hurry production for the governors as I was going to buy my facilities (thinking I could save on micro).

Which brings up the question: does anybody know the formula the governors use for hurrying?

[waab]

@cysten
1, If you play with the AI patch the automated formers might be a litte bit better. But must of the time humans is better.
2, Morgan is not a good choice if you don't want to micre

[BlackCat]

@cysten

Put in Stockpile Energy as the last item in the build queue - that way you can easily identify those bases that need tending via F4. You don't want any of your bases to Stockpile since there always are room for yet another CP, former, sattelite or crawler.