You can see this for yourself in current pak128 game.
* Click on the major powerline system for the map:
Result: shows a low usage (0% - 20%) despite being almost maxed out.
For example, it might show stats similar to the following:
Demand: 12802 MW
Generation: 14146 MW
Act. load: 12802 MW
Usage: 16%
If I remove a few plants from the system, the Usage immediately changes to what it should be (around 76% or something). This suggests to me it is something about nearing max capacity perhaps?
Tested on single player as well, and it reports the same info. Other players in the game also see this weird percent. I suspect the system could be beyond capacity for brief moments and maybe that could be causing this somehow.
BTW, this game proves that the power settings for pak128 are not enough. We are nearly maxing out power on this map and not even using all the factories that need power for production boost. If players actually used their factories to max production, there would be a severe shortage of power.
Fixed @ r5915
Quote from: TurfIt on September 14, 2012, 01:39:15 AM
Fixed @ r5915
Ok... so was it just a "display" bug or did it mean there was actually a shortage?
Display bug. But there is a shortage of generation at times...