Hi all, thank you for your patience. The B19 version is ready. Please let me know if you have any issues! Only XML updates required this go-around.

Dare Arkin - Trust me, you are not the only one who realized how much this was needed.
Thanks Damnation, for working on it.

That is great to hear, thank you! I'll see if I can knock it out this week.

So, not to be "That guy" but is there a plan to update these? This things rule and I didn't realize how much I depended on them.

Updates! Research rebalancing thanks to @Fistandantillus7, reduced uranium requirements, updated documentation for accuracy.

i tried mod very nice idea and perfect addition to game. than you.

You can also find certain other mods to implement structures that negate solar flares, but if I recall it pulls 25K watts when it's active (during the flare).

Unfortunately, solar flares knock out all power grids for the entire duration. As far as I know the only way around them is to disable them in the scenario editor at the beginning of the game.

will this save my hydroponics in the event of a solar flare?

really good idea keep up the good work

They'll kick on immediately (the entire affected power grid is zeroed, which will kick on the generators) but there isn't currently a notification. That's a neat idea, though.

How quick can these generators jump to action in case of an Zzzt-event? Does this trigger an event notifcation like "Low Power - Your Backup saved your butt" so you can look after the original power sources?

I can relate. Until recently, I had been playing with almost 200 mods, and the load times were upwards of 10 mins on an SSD. :)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look at rebalancing.

Wood -> Electricity (+batteries)
Chemfuel ->Refining (+microelectronics)
Uranium ->Multianalyzer (+component assembly)
The first tech are my suggestions. If you think those make the backup generator too easy to get then I suggest you could add a second tech requirement of (+tech)

I simply build a few extra generators and keep them turned off until an eclipse or Zzzt event.

Personally, I did not add this mod because, in my opinion, it adds nothing to the game that I cannot do already, and because I have started taking a 'yes it is cool, but do I really need it' approach to mods in all my games.

That's fair. What's reasonable on the Vanilla research tree, in your opinion?

I don't like the tech level required for this. Space age tech is not required for backup generators, they have existed since the 1900s. By the time you are at space age tech you really don't need this.

That pretty well sums it up, yes!

Let me see if I understand this. 75 wood will get me 1200W for 5 days or keep the generator on idle for 2 quadrums 7 days, right?

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i will give a try thaks for workshop addition ^^

this is really cool!
did you do the art? if so, i could really be thankful for a portable chemfuel creator or something.
even if it'd be incredibly inefficient and have a lot of research, i'd prefer to be able to make chemfuel on the road for my dropships.
but i still think i'm subbing to this mod!

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