Solar collector aborbs a lot of wire energy

[GoogleFrog]

A lot of flow is flowing into this solar. I didn't know that could happen, is it a bug?

https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/2434558?

[Licho1]

This happens if there is mismatch between calculated grid energy/ sum of various subgraphs. I had similar issues when it was calculating wind income incorrectly.
It can also happen temporarily in situations like excess or sharing but this is not the case here (in such situations drain might exceed income for example for the grid).

How was the mex drain implemented? If it uses real actual drain, then it might cause issues. If sum of mex drains on the grid does not match sum of income on the grid (timing issue or bug in OD)

[GoogleFrog]

Current mex drain is overdrive_energyDrain, but this mirrors current_energyIncome from energy structures and iirc has not changed. Mex capacity is max_energy_drain, which is how much energy the mex would drain if the grid was at maximum energy. This sums to maximum energy, but the sum is the actual max energy that the OD gadget calculates from frame to frame.

Looking at the wire gadget code, the sum of mex max_energy_drain will be less than the grid energy production because wind is assumed to be 2.5 at all times. So perhaps we would need to rescale max_energy_drain, or the OD gadget could even report a proportion rather than an absolute amount of energy. This proportion will be stable.

[GoogleFrog]

I've made a reproducible setup with three symmetric arms of wind generators and four mexes on each. The energy all flows to the centre even if mex draw is set to infinity.

It can also happen temporarily in situations like excess or sharing but this is not the case here (in such situations drain might exceed income for example for the grid).

Drain can never exceed grid income.

[Licho1]

fixed by 66e358e