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I have a recycling center with processing rate of 30.000, but in-game its 480.000. Why? How can I fix this?


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I have a recycling center with processing rate of 30.000, but in-game its 480.000. Why? How can I fix this?
In-game it says "480,000 per week", so presumably your 30,000 consumption rate from the asset happens 16 times per week in-game? That'd be once per 10.5 hours based on a 7*24hr week. You'd have to check whether that is consistent with other assets/parameters.
 

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Its not consistent at all. The incinerator is 48,000. And some how this is 480,000. It never accumulate any garbage, because this is huge consumption. Its completely out of balance.

I have a small recycling center and there I set the exact same way I set the big one, and somehow the big one multiplies the consumption rate for no reason.
 

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Its not very clear how those variables are set. I can't find any guide about that. I just decreased the consumption rate to 4800 and now in-game appear as 76.800. It must have some kind of multiplier. What is it?

Also the purchase price I put 100.000 and in-game is 125.000. Why?
 

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A *Dry* joke?


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Mods & Assets are two different things

Also the purchase price I put 100.000 and in-game is 125.000. Why?

I don't know and this is just a guess however: sometimes when I change asset numbers (assets that others make) sometimes the number I put in (just like your 100.000) are changed when I start the game (just like your 125.000) my assumption is that for some/certain assets the game has hard numbers (either high or low) that can't be changed beyond certain points.
 
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This is what I got till now:

- Construction cost is multiplied by 1.25
- Maintenance cost is divided by 5
- Electricity, Sewage (I guess), water consumption and garbage consumption is divided by 16.
- Capacity is the real capacity (or multiplied by 1)

God knows why. I'm sure this information is out there, because there are many mods and some are balanced, so a lot of people know that. Where the modders hang out? Not here, not in steam forum and definitely not on Reddit because there is way too many post per day to actually have any discussion.
 

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Probably doesn't have any impact on what you're doing/looking at, but I wonder whether any of those variable multipliers are being tweaked by other mods, e.g. hardness?
 

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Probably doesn't have any impact on what you're doing/looking at, but I wonder whether any of those variable multipliers are being tweaked by other mods, e.g. hardness?

Hey. Great question. Hard mode was on. I turned on by mistake. Because of your question I decided to check!

But that only changed the Construction cost, that instead of being multiplied by 1.25 is now 1.
The rest remain the same. So its really necessary to divide by 16 and by 5.