[SUGGESTION] - Rename "Capacitor"

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[SUGGESTION] - Rename "Capacitor"

Postby Ten98 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:37 am

I don't know about anyone else, but I was continually running out of power and building new power stations for the longest time, cursing out the developers for making power stations so weak and expensive.

It wasn't until I saw someone on Youtube with one power station running their whole prison that I realised he had it surrounded with 6 "Capacitors"...

CAPACITORS actually increase the amount of power in this game!!! :shock:

Anyone who has a basic understanding of electronics knows that this is not how capacitors work. Capacitors store energy, they do not generate it. If my power station doesn't generate enough power to keep the lights on, adding a capacitor would not help.

The reason that Prisons sometimes have big capacitors is to store the energy needed for the electric chair, which uses a huge amount of power in one short burst, this drains the capacitors and then they start to fill up again.

Just a small thing, but I think "Capacitor" should be renamed to "Generator" or maybe "Power Station Upgrade" or something like that, as their current name is very misleading.

Thanks for making an otherwise great game :)
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Postby TaintedArcher » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:23 am

"but this is an alpha and" blady bla bla bla!. Yeah I agree, I was thinking the exact same thing :P Would be good to change this later in the game :)
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Postby Great Magical Hat » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:19 am

The introduction chapter really doesn't handle much, but it does handle this, so if you played what there currently is in the way of a "tutorial" you would have had to apply this in a prison...
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Postby FourWinds » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:03 pm

Perhaps dev' could take a tip for a lot of youtube commentary vid's I've seen where it's described as a "capacitator" :lol:

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