Other spikes could be construction if you aren't a speed runner like me. If you don't always research that could also be a power demand spike as well. If you have steam storage for your "long draw spike" and then it turns out it is not a spike but a permanent increase you are going to crash so much harder when your storage runs out. The only thing that is spiking is laser turrets, and those are short. Originally posted by Hedning:Could have just said "steam storage tanks".īut it seems to me that your power demands would be steadily increasing rather than having "long draw spikes". The trick is getting it from the tank into a steam engine fast enough to power your base effectively. Steam tanks are a great way to increase the amount of back up power you have for long draw spikes in your power demand that are temporary, as you can store more effective energy in a tank of steam than you can in an accumulator. Due to rounding though in the calculations I'd only go as far as 35 steam engines per pump, depending on the arrangement, unless you literally only have a tank->pump-> 40 steam engines in a row with no other features in between. You still need 20 boilers to provide the steam if you want to do this consistently. When working with pipe pressure for steam engines for backup steam power, every 3 (2.5) units of pressure is enough to supply 1 steam engine in a row, so a pump from a tank can supply 40 steam engines. The rest will use up their steam buffer and fall silent. However, you will find that when your factory hits a huge power draw, your power production will spike temporarily, and then drop dramatically as only two steam engines per boiler will be satisfied with steam. If you aren't at maximum power, each steam engine does have a small steam buffer that it fills, and multiple steam engines down the line can fill up. It will never output any steam for a 3rd steam engine. The second steam engine if also at maximum power output will then consume all of the incoming 30 steam per second leaving it's steam buffer empty. Once it's buffer fills it will output 30 steam per second. The first steam engine at maximum power output will consume all of the steam off the incoming pipe until it's buffer fills while using 30 steam per second. What is beyond that? A boiler will output 60 steam per second. Ive never bothered going beyond that efficiency myself.
Originally posted by Cryten:also 1 boiler can supply enough steam for 2 steam engines for a little early game efficiency.
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