Hi! Is there an option to turn it into RICO office?

I love the backstory and look of the building and it can be very fun to use in cities

As someone who is currently working in such building, the power generation much more of a back up power source as its generators burn a lot of fuel, which is a more expensive source of power than what public utilities supply. Granted, I live in Quebec city where power is really cheap so it might not be that way everywhere, still the data center has a max output sufficient for a city of 300 000 people so, yes, it could be used as a power plant, if and only if it is not used fully as a data center as it needs that power for itself.

Absolutely my favorite service buidling. Thanks for releasing!

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I wish it actually multiplied the amount of energy you got as having a static increase of power due to "power managment" is kinda unrealistic. Great mod anyway

For me Yes I have green cities DLC

Thank you for the heads up, let me check to see how I can fix this. Do you have Green Cities?

As of November 30, 2017, this asset does not work and usually appears blank with no contribution to your cities. It's broken.

Is this compatible with the latest update?

@WalrusInAnus - No, it's good. The truth is: data center power is out of control [www.datacenterdynamics.com]

Isn't the power output way too much?

I like this thing. It fits perfect to my There will be light parks ;-) See my screenshots.

2 op make upkeep higher

Switch's SUPERNAPs are nuts. Very nice work. As soon as I started looking at the pictures the SUPERNAPs were the first thing to pop into my head.

As a data center worker this is really cool because high tech industry is lacking in this game but I think this would be better as a growable that didn't have many jobs but increased commercial, office, and industrial demand since data centers are gigantic power sinks and only have emergency on site power generation for themselves.

I think it would be really cool if you had this in smaller modular pieces. You could have electricity modules, office modules, industrial modules etc... It could be used to layout some sort of high tech industrial compound. Still very cool though, thanks.

Thank you! Lol 800k? That's 4 times the price of a nuclear powerplant. :P

You should make it more expensive then just 133700 dollars ;) Maybe like 800.000, just a suggestion.
But i really like the idea, good job making this building!! ;)

This is AWESOME. I love the detail you have put into this and the extension piece. (I had a good laugh at the no parking sign)

Sorry guys but I'm not changing the functionality, the only thing I am considering is to increase the upkeep.

I don't think it should necessarily lose it's power, but to lower it's value. Also, a secondary version of this without power could be great, as well.

It would probably be best to have this consume a sh*t load of power vs create power.

Perhaps make it a high technology building that provides high tech jobs to surrounding neighborhoods.

So you would like it not to do anything? ;)

Over powered, i would like it not to act like a power plant.

Hmm hard to catch a bus there from the Netherlands :P Maybe some day...

GCVos - the inside is even nicer than the pictures :-) It's pretty cool. Well worth a tour if you ever go to Las Vegas.

Thank you guys! You have actually been inside? Does it look as badass as the pictures make it look (I looked at their website a lot for this)?

Nice job! Looks a lot like SUPERNAP. We have servers there :-) I've been inside of their facilities too.

Hands down your facility is a major upgrade to Terremark and SUPERNAP!

That look very good! :3

maybe create a copy for those who want higher upkeep?

Quantum and iqof20 do have a point though. Before AD solar was the best power solution in the game, nuclear being more powerful but also way more expensive. Since 1.2.0 CO took care of this with the day/night cycle, making nuclear the 'better' power source. This makes this building a bit of a balancing conundrum. Ideally, the maintenance costs would be twice as high, but I'm hesitant to change things like that since people are already using it.

I see this is a power solution, not a solar power solution, so I think it is better kept in line with the other sources rather than specifically solar.

:D

Well you guys are right about it needing some rebalance. If I calculate cost/MW for solar since 1.2.0 you essentially get 160mw 50% of the time, so 80mw at 1200/week. This means the upkeep should ideally be increased to 1920. Makes sense because that's double what it is now.

just my 2 cents - i love this thing! looks great & adds quite some immersion. it pops up in every one of my cities sooner or later, so - THANK YOU!
i admit, using it does feel like cheating a little, but i can happily live with that (even though i'm generally very "anti-uber"). but i could just as well live with some minor pollution, higher initial/running costs or less power output for balancing reasons and to make it agreeable for a larger audience.
anyhow, good job GCVos - the stats are your call...! :)

My only suggestion to rebalance this would be to increase the maintainance costs or add a bit of polution (not a big fan of that). But I will only do that if I can be sure it won't interfere with those who are already using the asset.

Thank you! I must say you are completely spot on! I made this asset before After Dark came out, so at that point there was no mechanic for having an asset behave differently at night.

If I did want to make it more realistic and/or challenging, the asset would have to cause some polution at night to emphasize generator usage. But as far as I know there's no way to implement it like that.

Just to clarify GCVos, this is some nice work on the models and dev. My only critique is of the real-world application/effects.

There is no real ramification from day/night cycles for solar panels. The generators utilizing server-heat cannot product more power than the servers themselves need. So this is either a diesel/fuel-cell supplemented design in support of the solar panels or you're ignoring the new day/night for simplicity. Again, I love the work, but it just kind of makes this an easy item to plop anywhere on the map and generate power from...elves?

The problem with coming close to perfection is some of us will then criticize you for not quite achieving it. This is nice work, just seems like cheating to me to use it beyond my initial tests.

I guess with citybuilding games there's two type of players. The ones who want to be challenged, and the ones who just want a big sandbox. I'm actually more on the sandbox side, because I want to build my dream city and not worry about artificial difficulties. I will GLADLY cheat if that gets me closer to my goal. To each their own. :)

About the plant, it's just set to regular solar unlock. I don't think it's my job as an asset creator to make something easy or hard to unlock, just to make sure the asset itself is balanced. Sure you might unlock this pretty early, but you still need 133700 to place it.

A0: You have to go really really really high to reach any of the limits, I doubt this building alone would get you there....

Actually, I don't subscribe to stuff which make the game easier (like no pillars, tweak demand and the like). I have a big income per cicle and having this power plant is not a problem and it gives me more solutions than problems = less challenging game. However, if this power plant is given because you built your city and it has high-tech industries, high wealth and educated people, certain amount of citicenz and type, among specialized universities for high-tech and specialized universities in parkization, both fully upgraded so that give this powerplant at the end, then I would subscribe to mostly all mods like this. Otherwise is just cheating to me. An excellent idea that I would love if the game DEVELOPERS include them as a part of the mechanics of the game, but they rely and put all their responsability and everything on moders...

how much does this affect the object count limit.

Thank you, looks amazing =)

Then... don't subscribe to it? Fair enough points, however the actual cost per MW is more than solar AND nuclear, and requires water as well as more employees. Also, generators aren't magic. These kinds of structures can easily power a small town irl (though not intended for it, but hey, this game has no interwebz).

Great idea, but I consider it cheating unless it takes effort to get it, by some kind of unlokcing a chain of related stuff and this could be one of the biggers unlokcs.

Neat, but unrealistic of course. Might as well just say it's a magic power creator sucking energy from an alternate universe.

i love it :3

Thank you.

Thanks GCVos :)

@ Purphorus: Should be fixed now!

@ Bayonet: Thank you I'm glad you like it! I'm planning to extend this to growable industry with some wall 2 wall assets. Should be fairly easy since I already have all the textures. :)

@ Beta Ray: You are completely right about the generators, originally I wanted ones the same size as the cooling units, but I used smaller ones to add some variety. Also there could me more inside the building.

@ Daxius It's Elliot Alderson :P

Or Dr. Vu hehehe