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0.8.4-bPrevious version

The build below is the one the browser version is serving right now.

This is the previous version, kept playable. The current version is at www.powerstate-game.com.

0.8.4-b · Dam reservoirs, firm capacity, asset cards

0.8.4-b Current build

Hydroelectric dams now have reservoirs. Firm capacity leaves out batteries and the electrolyser, so it can read lower than before.

New
  • Hydroelectric dams store water in a reservoir and can run at full power through the evening peak.
  • The dam card shows how full the reservoir is, what the river brings in and how long full power lasts.
  • Dam reservoirs fill through spring and summer and are drawn down over autumn and winter.
  • The year briefing chart shows batteries and expected wind and solar above firm capacity, marked as not firm.
  • The asset register and the year briefing open an asset’s card beside the list.
  • Substations named in problem cards and the annual report open their own card.
  • The city card lists every reason a town is flagged.
  • Clicking a town’s name in the settlement list opens its city card.
Better
  • Hydroelectric dams are 25 MW for $72M, down from 45 MW for $118M.
  • The generation mix hatches wind and solar and puts them at the end of the bar.
  • The year briefing lists batteries and the yearly average of wind and solar apart from firm capacity.
  • The year briefing chart names the firm capacity line on its scale and hatches everything above it, so what is not firm cannot be read as part of it.
  • Menus and cards use plain words: scenario instead of charter, achievement instead of commendation.
  • The capacity contract is renamed Generating capacity, since it counts wind and solar.
  • Saves: old runs load as before. Dams already built become 25 MW and start with a reservoir 60% full.
Fixed
  • Firm capacity counted batteries at full power. Batteries are left out of it now, and so is a hydrogen turbine that may not buy fuel.
  • The electrolyser was counted in firm capacity and the generation mix, although it only draws power.
  • Towns fed by a single line were flagged as needing attention when nothing was wrong.
  • The Cities tab could show Supplied for a town the settlement list was flagging.
  • A 110/20 kV substation showed as overloaded when a local substation below it was full.
  • Dragging with the middle mouse button cancelled the build tool. It now only pans the map.

0.8.4-a · Storage fixes, kiosk sizes, a demand chart

0.8.4-a

One battery could sell its charge to another and pay the conversion loss twice, and several finance and storage readouts were quoting numbers worked out the wrong way. Local substations can now be built at a chosen size, and the dynamic tariff shows the day it shapes.

New
  • A 20 kV to 400 V station can be built at a chosen size, instead of placing a small one and reinforcing it four times over the following year. Needs Grid Reinforcement.
  • The dynamic tariff margin has a chart under it: the colony’s day as it stands, and the day it settles into at that margin.
  • Hovering a 20/0.4 kV station lights up every street it supplies. While reassigning streets, hovering a block lights up the station that carries it instead.
  • The finance screen names the price at which works start closing, above the rate they close at.
Better
  • The year briefing price card set supply cost and what households can afford side by side, as though they were one sum. It now says when a tariff is below cost.
  • The building fabric grant card says what it does to output, not only what it saves a household.
  • Long duration storage was undersold. The policy screen said these return well under half of what they take, which is true of the hydrogen chain but not of a flow battery at three fifths.
  • Substation cards, the asset register and the town table print the design temperatures instead of the words cold evening and heatwave afternoon.
  • The map draws faster on a built out colony, and the ground fills in at high speed instead of staying a stand in.
Fixed
  • Two grid batteries could charge and discharge in the same quarter of an hour, sending energy in a circle and paying the conversion loss twice.
  • A battery could draw more power than the network was told about, so an overloaded circuit shed a town instead of turning the battery down.
  • A full battery said Charging above the word Full. It is fetching back the trickle it leaks standing still, and now says Holding.
  • A developed battery read 164 of 120 MWh, dividing by the wrong number. The build rack understated storage the same way: a long duration battery on the shelf said 250 MWh and 10 hours where the one delivered holds 362 MWh and runs for 14 and a half.
  • The finance screen built a month from a single quarter of an hour, reading a loss at night and a gain at noon on the same month. It now reads a settled month, and the rows say at this price.
  • The low money warning came back every thirty days for as long as it was true. It now appears once, and the cash figure in the header carries it after that.
  • Ask works to come down reported the whole town’s load while the order only touches the works. The button now names the megawatts it takes off, and Measures in force reads 3 months left rather than 2160 h.
  • The quiet hours dial for hydrogen shared the one for batteries, so winding it up shut the electrolyser out of the cheap hours as well.

0.8.4 · Export Savegames, Report a bug, fixes and balancing

0.8.4

Colonies can be saved to a file and loaded again on any browser, and a new Bug report key sends what went wrong to the developer. Air conditioning is now something households take up over time, the peak a substation is sized against reads the same on every screen, and a built-out colony no longer slows the clock.

New
  • The command rail has a new Bug report key. Write what went wrong, tick the box to send the colony with it, and it goes to the developer. There is no account behind it and no way to answer it, so write by mail if you want a reply. About lists everything a report sends.
  • Export this colony writes a save to a file you keep. Import a colony loads it back, on this browser or another one. Both are in the menu.
  • Households take up air conditioning over time, instead of every colony having it from the first day. The briefing shows how quickly a world takes it up.
  • Cooling depends on where a town stands. Ground varies by about a degree and a half across a map, and a dense town runs another degree warmer.
  • A Local Warmth map overlay shows which ground runs warm and which runs cool.
  • The operating policy screen has a What to pay to charge dial. Kept low, the batteries will not start a power station to fill themselves.
  • The operating policy screen has a Buying hydrogen setting. The turbine can run on your own hydrogen only, buy on the market only when the colony is short, or buy whenever it pays.
Better
  • The year report opens on six gauges with the full figures folded underneath, and the planning briefing reads its chart in one line.
  • The load and supply figures name what is charging. Batteries filling and electrolysers making hydrogen are on separate lines.
  • Cooling has its own band on a substation card and its own term in the flow reading, next to heat pumps.
  • The Homes tab counts how many households have cooling.
  • The map draws a large network in about a quarter of the time it took. A colony with hundreds of circuits keeps its clock speed at 120x and 400x where it used to fall behind.
  • The header readouts, the weather porthole and the dashboard charts take far less of each frame at fast clock speeds.
  • The settlement rail and the town markers on the map answer at once on a large network instead of checking every circuit each frame.
Fixed
  • The year plan quoted a substation peak of up to twice the real one.
  • The peak a substation is sized against only looked at a winter evening. On most worlds the summer afternoon is worse, and the register, the town table and the year report all read the milder season.
  • When fast batteries charge was labelled backwards. Turning it up charges on fewer hours, not more.
  • Opening a substation card changed how quickly households connected heat pumps and cars.
  • The control room claimed an internal carbon price was changing the running order whenever one was set, without checking.
  • Turn down first described a cheapest-plant option that does not exist.
  • A custom world lost its household fuel and equipment prices when it was shared.
  • Share it out under What charges first only shared power when there was a surplus, not on quiet hours.
  • At 120x and 400x the ground took ten times longer to sharpen after a zoom or a pan, and the stretched stand-in tiles stayed on screen for seconds.
  • Equipment that was only old was reported as damaged. A station in the last years of its design life lit the unplanned outage warning, carried a fault light on the map and was listed as damaged in the register, with nothing wrong with it. All of those now ask whether a machine is worse than its age explains.
  • The oldest plant on a colony was the least likely to break down, which is backwards. A machine is now more likely to fail as it wears, not less.
  • Night Shift could not be won on any world. It counted the rooftop panels households fit for themselves, which you have no say over, so it was lost in the first month of every run. It now reads only the solar you build.
  • A colony saved by an older version of the game could take up the whole of a browser and refuse every save after it, while Saved games read as empty.
  • Colonies that had been deleted or replaced could leave data behind that still took up room. It is now reclaimed when a browser says it is full, before any colony is replaced.

0.8.3-b · You choose which colony to replace

0.8.3-b

When all five save slots are full, the game used to replace the colony that had gone longest without being saved. Now it asks which one.

Better
  • Starting a new colony with all five slots full now asks which colony to replace. Nothing is deleted until you pick one and confirm.
  • Keeping a run as a new colony now works when all five slots are full. It asks which of the others to replace, and leaves the colony you are playing alone.

0.8.3-a · Saving works again

0.8.3-a

The last release offered five saved colonies, and a browser could hold about two. Once it was full every save was refused. Saves are now about four times smaller and five long colonies fit with room to spare.

Better
  • Saves are stored compressed and are about four times smaller. Existing saves still open, and are stored the new way the next time they are written.
  • The message shown when a save is refused now tells you to delete a colony from Saved games.
  • Opening the menu no longer reads every stored colony to build the list of them.
Fixed
  • Saving failed once you had a few colonies stored. A save was too large for the space a browser gives the game, so the fourth one was refused and every autosave after that failed.
  • Starting a new colony when there was no room left said nothing at all. It now tells you, and names any colony that had to make way.
  • Quick play warned that it would replace the colony you were last playing. It replaces the one that has gone longest without being saved, and only when all five slots are taken. It now says so.

0.8.3 · Five colonies, a new policy screen, and one chart

0.8.3
Highlights
  • Five saved colonies in this browser instead of one, with named save slots and autosave.
  • A rebuilt Operating policy screen with live readouts, and you can change policy without pausing the game.
  • Load and supply is now a single chart, with axes, hover details and a legend you can filter.
  • Removing equipment now takes three months and can be cancelled, and you can rebuild aging equipment in place.
New
  • The Operating policy screen has been rebuilt, with a section each for batteries, hydrogen, balancing and plant order.
  • Each policy setting now shows a live readout of what it is doing right now.
  • A policy setting lights up when the dispatcher acted on it in the last step.
  • Preset buttons set every policy setting at once.
  • You can now change operating policy without pausing the game.
  • Sections for equipment you have not unlocked yet now say so, instead of showing an empty readout.
  • Hydrogen has its own settings: how much the turbine may draw from your store, and how much to hold in reserve.
  • A setting controls when the electrolyser and flow battery may charge: only from surplus, in quiet hours too, or whenever there is room.
  • A setting controls what charges first: batteries, long-duration storage, or an even split.
  • Five save slots. You can name, rename and delete them.
  • Autosave now writes to the slot you are currently playing.
  • Save as a new colony copies your current run into a fresh slot and keeps playing there.
  • A Saved indicator appears in the top right when the game stores your progress.
  • If your browser blocks saving, the game now warns you in red instead of failing silently.
  • Removing equipment now takes three months to complete, and it stops working the moment you order it.
  • You can cancel a removal at no cost any time before the crews arrive.
  • You can rebuild aging equipment in place for less than the cost of replacing it.
  • Load and supply is now a single chart: generation stacked, demand drawn over the top, and unserved power below the line.
  • The chart now has axes: megawatts up the side, dates along the bottom.
  • Hovering over the chart shows every source and line at that moment in one tooltip.
  • Double-click a name in the legend to show only that series, and double-click again to bring the rest back.
  • Click a source in a chart legend to hide it, including on load and supply.
  • Storage now shows on both sides of the line: discharging above, charging below.
  • Station cards now show the demand they carry across the year, with the coldest and hottest evenings marked.
  • Machine cards now show the most a machine can be asked to deliver, and why that is less than its rated figure.
  • The register now has a CO₂ column, and points out the three biggest emitters.
  • The yearly report now prices network losses: the energy lost in the wires and what it cost to replace.
Better
  • Wind and solar now sit on top of the generation stack, so the steady plants below read flat and the weather is the shape on top.
  • The demand line now turns red over the hours when supply fell short.
  • Hydro and geothermal now run to fill storage instead of shutting down when demand is low.
  • Capping a plant below its rated output now also limits how fast it can charge storage, not just how much it generates.
  • Paused plants now cost 60 percent less to keep than running ones.
  • Line cards now break the route down section by section, so a shared line no longer shows one confusing number.
  • Line cards now say when both ends are still connected by another route.
  • Load and supply now flags when a shortfall and a spill happen at once, meaning the power could not reach where it was needed.
  • The pricing screen can now set a margin up to 25 percent above the fair price, and shows when the regulator caps it.
  • Local substations are now named after their street instead of repeating the town name.
  • The salt cavern now unlocks alongside electrolysis, rather than several tiers before anything can fill it.
  • A flagged town on the side rail now says what is wrong with it.
  • You can now reinforce a full substation directly from its row in the register.
  • Every build card has been rewritten to say plainly what a machine does, what it needs, and what it costs.
  • Removing the only power source feeding a town now asks for confirmation and names the town, like removing its last line already did.
Fixed
  • Removed the firm reserve setting, which starved storage while claiming to hold back capacity.
  • The storage reserve setting now works: it sets how far a battery will discharge before stopping.
  • The electrolyser now pays the running cost listed on its build card. It was previously charged nothing.
  • Town substations now cost something to maintain, like every other substation.
  • An overloaded line now sheds only the customers it feeds, instead of every town on the map.
  • A hydrogen turbine now bids based on what its fuel cost, so a full cavern makes it cheaper to run.
  • Overhauls are no longer cancelled by scheduling a removal and then cancelling it.
  • A rebuild you have paid for is no longer lost when you schedule a removal.
  • Open cards no longer scroll upward on their own while you are reading them.
  • A margin above the fair price is now kept when you save.
  • A margin above the fair price is no longer displayed as a discount.
  • The saves screen now correctly says colonies are stored in your browser, not as files on disk.

0.8.2-b · A new start screen

0.8.2-b
New
  • The start screen opens on three cards: Scenario, Weekly Challenge and Custom.
  • Quick play on the Scenario card starts the selected world straight away.
  • The Weekly Challenge is in development. The same world and run for everyone, new each week.
Better
  • Standard is marked as the world to start on, and every world has its own Open button.
  • The five year world "A new beginning" is gone. The lesson leads to the Standard scenario instead.
Fixed
  • The start screen fits on short screens without scrolling.

0.8.2-a · Wind, hydrogen and development prices

0.8.2-a
New
  • The development tab now shows the expected prices for assets you unlock, to help you plan better.
Better
  • Wind turbine power curve updated to match modern turbines.
  • Hydrogen tank and cavern no longer connect to the grid.
  • The electrolyser model improved.
Fixed
  • A battery could charge and discharge in the same half hour, which made the generation mix disagree with supply.

0.8.2 · Sound, seasons, and a quieter room

0.8.2

You can hear the colony now: wind, rain and a transformer hum, all built in the browser. Breakdowns and storm damage stop the clock only when they are about to cost you customers.

New
  • The colony has a sound: wind, rain, a transformer hum and birds, following the weather outside your window. The pause menu carries the switch and two levels, one for the room and one for the desk.
  • Statistics counts unplanned outages: how often a machine has broken, how many stand in the shop today, and the condition the fleet is carrying.
  • The year strip wears the four seasons and the phase bar names the one you are in. The top of the screen takes its colour.
  • At 120x and 400x the porthole holds a pale moon on the night bow, waxing and waning at its true phase while the sun stands at noon.
Better
  • A machine breaking stops the clock only when there is not enough firm capacity left to carry the loss. Statistics takes the rest.
  • A gale that leaves a circuit carrying more than it can hold still stops the clock. Anything less stays on the map and in the register.
  • The weather bay folds to its porthole on a narrow screen instead of disappearing, and a standing extreme keeps its name across the foot.
  • Load and supply share one unit, so the reading stops resizing its own plate every time a digit crosses.
  • The operating year drops its headline and its second Control room button. The nav rail already holds that door open, on V.
Fixed
  • A wire drawn or pulled down while the clock is stopped now changes who has power on the same click, instead of waiting for play.

0.8.1 · Circuits, the merit order, and a pricing desk

0.8.1

Circuits you can point at, the merit order on screen, a desk that files your tariff, and readouts that print what the game measured.

New
  • A tap, crossing or shared corridor divides a route into circuits, each selected, priced and demolished on its own.
  • The Control room draws the merit order: each machine at its asking price, the price setter ringed, details on hover.
  • Pricing Desk files your tariff each month at your chosen margin under the fair price, never above a cap or contract.
  • Heavy Corridors: upgrade a double circuit to four circuits on one tower line or four cables in one trench.
  • 110 kV Quad Circuit carries 320 MW, 20 kV Quad Feeder 56 MW. Four is the most a right of way holds.
  • Every asset card offers maintenance: send a crew, see or cancel a booking. Substations, hydrogen vessels and capture plants included.
  • Statistics gains a Homes tab: heat pumps, cars, solar, batteries, smart meters and hourly tariff counted in homes, with history.
  • The rack’s locked chip opens Behind the lock: every machine you cannot build yet and its programme.
  • The Contracts lamp counts down your time to answer an offer; the card matches it and names the months left.
Better
  • Junction clamps are visible hardware, rimmed in the circuit’s colour. A route end joined to nothing wears a red ring.
  • Each section of a circuit takes its own colour: the busy half of a tapped trunk looks busy, the idle half idle.
  • Line cards and the register print the loss the dispatcher charges; a tapped circuit read close to double.
  • Each reinforcement rung lowers impedance as well as raising rating, so a reinforced route pulls load off longer ones.
  • The Control room refreshes while open. Reserves lists stored charge, what is held from trading, what is offered, spare capacity and Hold.
  • The storage measure is Sell the reserve into the market: a shortfall always reached the whole pack, the reserve stops trading.
  • Firm headroom held is now Charging headroom guard, under Storage, because it governs when storage may charge and nothing else.
  • The planning screen says when an overhaul gives nothing back; past overhaul and worn out now mean a spent design life.
  • The briefing’s electrification outlook is the colony figure weighted by homes, the one Statistics prints.
  • Heavy Corridors sits beside Cable Works on the development map, which now fits the screen without scrolling.
Fixed
  • Junctions divided routes by draw order, and a new colony’s feeders never divided. Every junction divides now, loaded saves included.
  • A route drawn with the clock stopped wore the disconnected mark until play resumed; so did every route after a load.
  • A 110 kV double circuit at 100% offered no upgrade, because the ladder stopped at two.
  • The planning screen sold overhauls that gave nothing back, and left substations and capture plants out of the maintenance table.
  • A kiosk or capture plant with a crew on site stays in service, and its card now says so.
  • A shortfall blamed on generation while your machines stood idle now names the wire in the way.
  • The tariff screen understated a month’s running cost, more at speed. Fuel, carbon and disposal are in now.
  • A wind farm card read 100% capacity factor in a light breeze. It reads against the nameplate now.
  • The price beside your tariff is labelled as the clearing price; no customer pays the carbon price inside it.
  • A statistics tile called total generation "energy delivered" while the tile beside it printed the losses.
  • The reactor card claimed it cannot follow load while the gauge showed it following. It now states its minimum.
  • Advice to sell surplus and to buy fuel forward outlived both mechanics; the cards now suggest something that exists.
  • Facility cards advertised a deferrable share of load that nothing in the game defers.
  • How to play said a nuclear station takes seven years. It takes five, as its card always said.

0.8.0 · Improved demand simulation

0.8.0
New
  • Households buy panels, heat pumps, batteries, cars, insulation and chargers themselves, weighing what each costs against what it saves.
  • Every world sets those prices, and they fall over a run.
  • Sell metered customers an hourly tariff at a margin you choose. They charge when power is cheap.
  • Grants replace rollout programmes: set a rate on a station’s streets, pay for what households fit.
  • Town cards show the share of homes on each technology. Station cards show the payback.
Better
  • Households pay retail for gas and petrol, not the wholesale price a power station pays.
  • Electric cars spread street by street against the pump price.
  • Heat-pump manufacturing and electric mobility left the development tree. A Grant Office replaced them.
  • The petrol a colony still burns counts towards its carbon footprint.
  • A straining transformer says what is on it.
  • Smart metering reaches nearly every home. Rooftop solar stops at three quarters of roofs.
  • A power station or store that takes a full block keeps two tiles clear of a town’s edge, so the town can still grow past what you built for it.
  • Wood and refuse read as a flow the region grows rather than a market you can buy more of. A gauge on the card shows the burning fleet against that ceiling.
  • An event card can be held quiet for three months instead of switched off for ever, and the interruption settings name the month it wakes in.
Fixed
  • Statistics, the asset register, contracts and grants named themselves wrong on the completion card.
  • Station tooltips flickered while the clock ran.
  • Load & Supply left the gap between demand and output unexplained. A dashed line now carries the charging and the losses, so every term on the chart adds up.

0.7.3 · Your units, and a shorter cookie bar

0.7.3
New
  • Temperature, distance, wind speed and mass read in metric or US units. The game picks one up from your browser when you arrive, and the menu switches it.
Better
  • The cookie bar asks in three lines instead of ten. Everything it used to say is still there, one click away under What is stored.

0.7.2 · Control and visual optimisation

0.7.2
Better
  • Control and visual optimisation.

0.7.1 · A charging battery no longer takes the town off

0.7.1

Storage that is filling up gives way to the network before your customers do.

Better
  • Surplus a battery cannot take because nothing can carry it to the battery is spilled and billed as spilled. It lands in Finance under Surplus disposal and on the Load & Supply chart, where it names the wire you need, instead of arriving as an outage with no explanation.
Fixed
  • A battery could put the lights out in the town beside it. How hard to charge was decided on the colony total, without asking what the wires between the surplus and the pack could carry, so a battery pulling its full power through a transformer that could not pass it put that transformer over its rating. Protection then disconnected the streets behind it, because a charging battery was not something it was allowed to interrupt, and the pack went on drawing everything it wanted with the transformer still overloaded. Charging gives way first now: the pack takes what the network can carry and no more, and nobody is disconnected for it.

0.7.0 · The Record, and a first term

0.7.0

A live score in the top bar, and a five year first term with five goals.

New
  • The Record: a live score in the top bar. One point per hundred megawatt hours delivered, weighted by clean, reliable and affordable.
  • Hover it for the multiplier and its three parts.
  • Points fly off the map where you earn them and where the lights go out.
  • Click it for the last forty things that moved it, and a chart against par and your best run.
  • The bay says whether you are ahead of your best run or of par.
  • The end screen counts the Record up, settles the term, the warming headroom and the balance sheet, and draws the run.
  • First Term: a five year world at the top of the rack. Wind from day one, one new settlement in year two.
  • Five goals on it, easy to hard: a second machine, a year in profit, the new town wired, a quarter from wind, the founders station retired for a year. One term each.
Better
  • Grades are struck against each world’s own par.
  • The annual review opens with the Record.
  • New players land on the First Term, from the console and from the lesson.
  • The sideboard keeps Reliability and Renewable; the other four tiles and the Fuel & Carbon and Planet cards are gone.
  • Old saves load with a rebuilt Record. Old finished runs stay but are not compared.
  • Development fits a short screen without cutting the reading band, and the Record bay wears an expand mark so it reads as something that opens.
Fixed
  • Emissions and money barely moved the old score. Both now weigh every hour.
  • Renewable share no longer waits for the year to close.
  • Retiring the founders station now removes it, and a January booking no longer slips a year.

0.6.2 · Wasted power costs money

0.6.2

Power your fleet makes and the colony cannot use is no longer free. It is dissipated for a price, the price is on your books, and the energy behind it is drawn on the Load & Supply chart so you can see the nights it is happening on.

New
  • Surplus your fleet cannot stop making is now disposed of at a cost, and the cost has its own line in Finance under Surplus disposal, with the megawatt hours it represents beneath it. You pay to produce that energy and you pay again to get rid of it, so a machine running all night into a colony that does not want it is losing money twice.
  • The Load & Supply window draws what you spilled. It is a band of its own on the load chart, only over the hours something was thrown away, and the summary reads it three ways: the energy, the share of everything your fleet made, and what disposing of it cost.
  • The annual review names a year that spilled. The card says how much of your generation went to waste, what it cost on top of the fuel that made it, and the two things that fix it, storage sized against the surplus or load worth serving at night.
Better
  • The storage discharge price in Operating policy goes lower than it did. It stopped at a point where storage still asked more for its energy than the cheapest machine on a young colony cost to run, so every setting below the default did the same nothing. Eager storage is now something you can ask for.
  • Disposal counts in your cost of supply, which is the figure the regulator judges your tariff against. A fleet that wastes half of what it makes no longer reports the costs of a well run one.
  • The control room no longer starts a machine that is far too big for the load when a smaller one can carry it. A reactor whose minimum output is thirty megawatts stays cold on a colony drawing seven, and the small plant beside it does the work, instead of the reactor running all night and spilling the difference. It is still started when nothing else can keep the lights on.
Fixed
  • A battery on a small colony filled up once and then did nothing for the rest of the run. It was asking more for its energy than the one cheap machine it was competing against, so the control room never called on it, so it never emptied, so it had no room the next time there was a surplus to catch. Storage now asks less for its energy the fuller it gets, because a full pack cannot take anything and making room is worth something. On the starting settlement that is the difference between a battery that sits at 100% all winter and one that pays for itself.
  • Surplus made by a machine running at its minimum was sent straight to disposal even with a battery standing beside it with room to spare, because the decision to charge was taken earlier in the same moment, before that surplus existed. It is offered to storage first now, which is what the System balance panel has been telling you all along.
  • The frequency climbed to an impossible reading whenever supply ran ahead of the load, and sat there. A colony with more generation than it can use now runs at fifty hertz, because the surplus is going somewhere, and the reading falls only when customers are being disconnected.

0.6.1 · Spilled power says why

0.6.1

The System balance panel tells the two kinds of spilled power apart, what your fleet could not stop making and what nothing carried to the load, and the frequency reading is a real number again.

Fixed
  • Spilled power was one figure with one explanation behind it, that your fleet could not go any lower and storage was the answer. Generation that reached nobody because nothing carried it was counted in the same figure, and storage does not move power down a corridor that is already full. The panel names the two separately now, and the second one sends you to the line or the station at its rating.
  • The frequency in the System balance panel and in the control room read about 100 Hz at every clock speed but the slowest, because the nominal 50 Hz was being added on top of the real figure. It reads the true number now.

0.6.0 · Named machines, and an honest renewable share

0.6.0

Every plant and store carries a name you can change, the development bench says when it is standing idle, and wood has left the renewable share for a line of its own.

New
  • Every plant and every store is named the day you order it, Wind_1, Wind_2, Battery_1, numbered per type, and the name follows it into the register, the control room and every card that mentions it.
  • You can rename any machine from its own panel: click the pencil beside its name, or double click the name. Leaving it blank gives it back the name the game chose.
  • The development bench says when nothing is on it, amber after a month, orange at six, red at a year, and it names the points it has banked and not spent.
Better
  • Wood no longer counts toward your renewable share. It has its own line beside it, so a colony burning wood reads what it is running on, and the score reads that number too.
Fixed
  • Sponsored landmarks were being sited on top of a town, drawn through the housing. An airport or an institute now takes ground clear of every town, and the offer lapses rather than putting one on the streets.
  • The breakdown behind the renewable share only appeared on the first run after a page load. It appears on every run.