Supreme commander, how do i generate power?

[Gerard]

Got this with my quad core and im finding it prety confusing, its easy to get mass, just how exactly do i generate power? I can build power plants but they seem to do diddily.

 

[manoz]

Build more power generators.

I build bout 4-8 tech 1s then start on tech 2 power generators

 

[Gerard]

Build more power generators?

As far as i remember in TA you had to plonk power generators on specific parts of the map similar to the mass extractors, just not sure if its the same for this game.

 

[manoz]

As far as i remember in TA you had to plonk power generators on specific parts of the map similar to the mass extractors, just not sure if its the same for this game.

soz edited previous post

don't need to put in specific place though you get bonuses if you build adjacents to other buildings/mass extractors

 

[theo]

As far as i remember in TA you had to plonk power generators on specific parts of the map similar to the mass extractors, just not sure if its the same for this game.

you seem to have mass and energy mixed up there

power is created primarily from power generators from tech1 to tech3 producing exponentaly more energy

whilst mass extractors are placed on the mass points to get mass using small amount of energy (tech1-3 and can be upgraded through tech levels)

and finally mass frabricators which are placed anywhere producing small amounts of mass but using massive amounts of energy

so mass depends on energy and everything else depends on energy including radar and shield and all building

if you say you've played TA then it's just a case of getting the right ratios of which buildings and expanding upon that


this post seems patronising... it's not meant to

 

[snowdog]

Power from power plants, lvl 1 to lvl3, can build them anywhere.

mass from fabricators and mainly mass extractors, on ''mass'' spots on the map.

Usually build 10 or so lvl 1 power gens, then whenever my lvl 1 engineers get idle, I just make em mass build lvl 1 power gens and mass fabricators, 2 power gens per fab, usually end up with 100's of them.
Always try to make next lvl pwer gens though, one lvl 2 power gen is same as 25 lvl 1 power gens, and a lvl 3 pwoer gen is same as 5 lvl 2 power gens...

 

[Duff-Man]

You need to build more power plants.

Don't get confused by the negative power output numbers - they are your rate of power production in relation to the optimal. When either one of these numbers (mass or pwoer) is negative your production rate will drop to compensate.