Iām just a player looking for a feasible way to handle all these powered devices what with car batteries being fairly limited devices to scavenge from to convert into batteries - Soās gasoline, but with gas pumps that seems a bit more handleable, and solar power vehicle scale batteries are already in - I get that the UPS system allows rechargeable devices designed to directly interact with it, butā¦ Thatās way late game stuff to reliably produce, after youāre scrambling for batteries to get your welder and other essentials running. Thereās the option for making a vehicle mounted version directly, as far as I understand it, but I havenāt delved too deep into that side of things yet.
Outside of game function, though, simulation is an aspect Iām pondering here, too. Iām a trucker - Having to deal with vehicle to outlet power is as simple as buying a power inverter, scalable to different sizes. And simple battery charge is never more than 200w ish. And my phone can be done on one of those thumb sized cigarette plug inverters, available by the dozen in every corner store. The idea that youāre not finding tools like that, rechargeable batteries, in New England, an area of fairly high wealth and therefor lots of tech gadgetry around, is really kind of baffling.
Virtually every device bought today has rechargeable battery packs available, or inherent in the basic product, so something to that effect should just be around, even if weāre only talking power tool, phone, or game device batteries. Inverter plug power for these devices is near universal, as well. Power and power management from a gameplay perspective being a middle game aspect makes perfect sense - It takes a good little while to actually get good enough with them to be able to make them. The scarcity of changeability however is just confusing.
Right now with where the games at, its all about vehicle power - Thatās perfectly sensible, weāve got car engines and alternators and solar vehicles all over the place, thatās cool. So I just have to wonder how hard it would be to simply find / make a a power inverter, and be able to run that cable to a power tool via a battery pack mod. That way its easier on the code - Youāre modding the battery pack rather than coming up with a whole new system, and it fits the mechanics in play. Its not like the world lacks for spare phone chargers sitting around, or laptop or game console power bricks.
