Power plant cannot produce anything.

[Vladki]

I wanted to make recycling factory combined with waste burning power plant. It was supposed to accept waste and produce small amount of plastic, paper, steel and electricity. So I named it recycling_kraftwerk. It is well marked as electricity producer, transformer looks OK, but no power is generated. Tested on versions 100.0 and 111.2.2. And I see the same problem with various nuclear addons, where the power plant produces dangerous waste that has to be delivered to safe storage. I tried to make a power plant that accepts wood and coal and it was OK, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is that i does produce some output goods. Pak file can be downloaded here: https://uran.webstep.net/~vladki/simutrans/pak64/factory.recycling_kraftwerk.pak

Relevent part of dat file is here:

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Obj=factory
Name=recycling_kraftwerk
Copyright=BeatlJoe, Vladki
Location=Land
DistributionWeight=1
Productivity=200
Range=100
Pax_level=50
MapColor=77
Intro_year=1990

InputGood[0]=waste
InputCapacity[0]=500
InputSupplier[0]=0
InputFactor[0]=100

OutputGood[0]=Stahl
OutputCapacity[0]=100
OutputFactor[0]=5

OutputGood[1]=Plastik
OutputCapacity[1]=200
OutputFactor[1]=15

OutputGood[2]=Papier
OutputCapacity[2]=200
OutputFactor[2]=20

dims=5,5,1
BackImage[0][0][0][0][0][0]=recyklo_64.0.0
BackImage[0][0][1][0][0][0]=recyklo_64.0.1
...etc...


[Dwachs]

Power plants cannot produce anything besides electricity.

[Vladki]

Why? Is there any special reason for it?

[greenling]

Vladki
It´s a little Devloptem bug!

[Dwachs]

Why? Is there any special reason for it?

It is simply not implemented. I do not know whether there is a particular reason behind this.

[Vladki]

Ok, in that case this should be moved to a wishlist (extension request)

[prissi]

Before all land consumer were power producers. I think, a flag was added in makeobj 52 or so. Then this could be lifted. However, a power plant that produces something, will be never built ingame.

[Fabio]

But later chains could link to it, couldn't they? I move this to extension request, in the long wishlist

[prissi]

Chains are spawn from consumers. Either when demand of electricity => consumer must be power station. If a power stations is not consumer, it will not be built. If the consumer is a land factory not producing power, it will never spawn during the game. Thus for nuclear power, you need city storage facitlites to spawn them.