Industry increase every x, how does it work?

[Jaridan]

As the title suggests, my question:

Does an industry appear when a city (800 pop) reaches: 800+x pop
or when the overall population                                  hits: starting pop+x?

[Dwachs]

If Industry increase every = x, new industries will be build if a city reaches population = x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, etc.

If x=0 then no new industries will be created.

[paichtis]

Is this true for power station too ?

I mean  : when , say, 16x is reached will the game check if power is needed and then build some power generating industry (a solar station for instance) or the two are independant?

[Dwachs]

First the game checks for new industries, then it decides powerstation or not. There are not two independent choices.

[paichtis]

ok thanks !

Then there are a few things we can say (for PAK128 at least):

- the power available on the map is usually lower than the configuration (this is true for PAK128 where many power industry have a very small output)

Since also power industry chains tend to be much smaller than the other (1-4 new industries VS 5-20)   :
- increasing the target power (electric-promille) will reduce the cluttering of the map
- manually building power station will lead to a massive increase of industries being founded

Right ?

[Dwachs]

Yes.

- the power available on the map is usually lower than the configuration (this is true for PAK128 where many power industry have a very small output)

This is intended (and configurable on per pak-set basis).

[TurfIt]

Actually, I think this is buggy. The fabrikbauer routine was never updated to respect the new electricity_amount parameter which pak128 is now using. With current numbers, I expect pak128 maps to be populated with ~1/3 the expected amount of electric production. ( 1/9 the demand with the default 330 electric_promille)

[prissi]

TurfIt is right, the routine also neglect that some factories do not need electricity at all. But in pak64 the final ratio was almost the same as before.