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Should factories be limited to one transformer? Or extend the calculations to handle multiple? Remember though, this is Simutrans not Simupowersystem.

And there is another technical showstopper for applying your patch: please, use *tabs* not spaces. Your patch break the formating completely.

I think the power system was in for an overhaul anyway. Though I am a little confused if patch 1 is still need, when factories produce every step. But I will test it and see how well it works with the killer games.

I would also make the iterator static functions of their cl****es. This is imho the nicer way compared to bloating up karte_t further.

And what is the relation of MW to money? This should be defined then in the money_frame.cc dialoge.

Would there be a way to define the wind turbines as a generator with built-in transformer?

And with the recent river upgrades, could we define a hydroelectric dam?

I'd like to suggest that units should be placed after the numerals, for consistency:

power_load * PRODUCTION_DELTA_T / last_power_demand
should use brackets, otherwise the result may be implementation dependend. (Or maybe not, I learned C at K&R times.)

all adding and removing will be handled then by the pwoernet_t cl**** itself. To me, this is much more OOP, but we can discuss.

Known issues:

Multiple transformer stations from different power networks attached to the same factory can produce some strange results. This occurs in non patched version too. I see no reason for allowing more than one transformer per factory, and certainly not when fed from separate networks. The network max capacity should be enough to connect all your generators on a continent together for even the largest maps. If not, raising the max by using 64 bit numbers would be preferable to implementing the logic required to handle this case.

Should factories be limited to one transformer? Or extend the calculations to handle multiple? Remember though, this is Simutrans not Simupowersystem.

Gameplay changing extensions:

Should a powerplants fuel consumption be based upon its energy output?
Easy to add, but is it desired gameplay...

Are different levels of transformer station desired?
Currently it would be uneconomic to connect a transformer station onto pak128s wind turbine. It simply doesn't produce enough power to pay the maintenance on the transformer, even allowing for the increased downstream factory production. Different levels of transformers could have different power handling capacities and the extra maintenance to go along with it. New graphics would be required which makes this unlikely...  Alternatively, the base cost could be lowered, power limit added, and multiple transformers (connected to the same network for simplicity) required for large power plants/factories...

Neroden,

if you'd like to merge this into Experimental and maintain it, that'd be a possibility, too. But this seems like it would be a good patch for Standard.

Given my current repo setup, I could attempt to maintain it in git as a patch to standard *and* merge it in experimental (oh the joys of distributed version control!)

This would be very nice!