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Thread: Engine Overload
I'm not positive, but I believe I have the math figured out for Engine Overload 1 through 4. When you run one of those programs, you'll see an effeciency number appear in your engine's stats. For the four levels of overload, the numbers are as follows...
- Engine Overload 1 = 0.7 Efficiency
- Engine Overload 2 = 0.5 Efficiency
- Engine Overload 3 = 0.3 Efficiency
- Engine Overload 4 = 0.1 Efficiency
Anyways, the way that number works, I think, is that you divide your engine's energy usage by the efficiency number to get how much energy it will need while overloaded. The way this works out is that for Overload 1 your engine will use about 1.43 times as much energy as normal. For Overload 2 your engine will use 2 times as much energy as normal. For Overload 3 your engine will use about 3.33 times as much energy as normal, and for Overload 4 your engine will use 10 times as much energy as normal. As you can see the jump in energy usage from Overload 3 to Overload 4 is huge. At 10 times the energy requirement of normal, you're going to need one heck of an uber reactor to be able to handle it. For example, if you're using the Lvl6 reward engine, you're going to need18900 worth ofEXTRA energy if you want to run Engine Overload 4. (As a comparison, you only need 4900 extra energy if you want to run Engine Overload 3.)