Droid Engineer Archive

The price of energy after the 9/4/03 patch may be changing because they have finally implimented energy potential as a factor:

"Power update. Potential energy attribute > 500 yields up to two times more power output. Power of that quality can last up to two times longer."

I recommend you buy all you can on the bazaar that's still under-priced. It may not last long at that price once people realize it lasts twice as long in their harvesters.

I too was happy to see this change, however, It dosent seem to show in the harvester information.
Meaning, i deposited 1000 wind energy last night with a PE of around 500. When i checked to see if there was any change in the time it would last, i didnt see any difference. Am i the only one? Maybe i didnt do my calculations right.

It says up to...I'm assuming this is based on a variable scale. So for example, Potential enerty of 501 will only last a little longer, while known radioactive with potential energy of say 974 will last almost twice as long. Good news for me, that means I can finally get rid of my stupid wind generator way in boo-foo nowhere.

I suspect that the conversion kicks in when you choose how much energy to deposit. For instance say all you have is energy with 1000 Potential Energy. You choose to deposit 1000 energy so 500 units of your energy resource are used. Haven't tested this yet, but it makes sense since you are telling it how much energy to deposit, no how many units of an energy resource to deposit.