Bug: Power Stations

[th3awak3n1ng]

I have a rather large prison with well over 50+ power stations. Today I added another and upon turning it on, it crashes - sometimes along with another station (pre-patch) I had already built. The new one always crashes.

Don't know if its because I have a lot of stations or not, but they are conflicting with each other or something else in some way and preventing them from working.

I can't add anymore stations without this happening.

 

[UltimateTobi]

So they ARE conflicting? Perhaps the outage is what crashes your game and not the 51st power station.

 

[AndrewT]

Please upload a save game and debug.txt file showing this issue, thanks.

 

[th3awak3n1ng]

Sorry for the confusion. By crashes I mean the power station turns off. It plays the same sound as if it was overloaded or connected with another station. The game itself does not crash and remains stable.

 

[UltimateTobi]

Sorry for the confusion. By crashes I mean the power station turns off. It plays the same sound as if it was overloaded or connected with another station. The game itself does not crash and remains stable.

Then I suggest disconnecting the power station from the grid. Obviously there is somewhere a cable that intersects with another power grid.

 

[th3awak3n1ng]

Trust me when I say it is not connected to anything. It’s a brand new station in an isolated area. Try to turn it on and it acts like it’s overloaded or connected to another station. It sometimes turns off an existing station somewhere else on the map and won’t turn back on until I remove the new station.

 

[UltimateTobi]

Couple screenshots including Utility view would be helpful.

 

[th3awak3n1ng]

Here is a screenshot, not sure how much help it will be.

 

[Xionxxa]

Looking at the image of the power generator and not the prison in utilities view, My guess is that you added so many power stations that the game/engine can't handle the strain you're currently putting it through. Try working around this issue as I believe this isn't a bug in the game but an engine issue with the prison you're currently working on.

I will do some digging in the game to see if there is a possible fix or workaround.

 

[Xionxxa]

(This is only because no debug log or prison save file was uploaded by the OP)

I had a look in the profiler for details on any update issues when adding 50+ Generators into a giant room and found nothing that could cause a crash in the game or generator shutdown. So I say this isn't a bug with generators.

You may of accidentally connected two generators together somewhere else in the prison and the game had some unexpected issue which might of overwritten some data / had an object ID conflict within the prison file. (Stated as pre-patch generators and new ones in the prison save file) Meaning you may need to try reset the ID's by either destroying the possible pre-patch generators or recovering the save manually by editing the save file in a text editor. (Note: This will take hours or days to do it manually)

So since I am unable to replicate this "bug" or see the save file to investigate a possible ID conflict then this thread is solved/not a bug.

 

[th3awak3n1ng]

You made a good suggestion. I will try deleting all stations and replacing them. If that doesn't work, I’ll post the save file for you.

 

[th3awak3n1ng]

Sorry it took so long. I tried deleting and replacing all the stations, it didn't help. However, I underestimated how many stations I have. Somehow I managed to have exactly 128. Building number 129 is what causes problems, it won't turn on. So I guess there is a limit of 128.