Performance: power switches and small electric networks

[wvlad]

I use a wall of such segments: . It consists of 2 separate networks - power switched network of normal laser turrets and 1 for the detector turret with accumulators.
Now the electric network update time is 2.4 but if I connect half of them to the main network the update time goes to 1.3 which is pretty significant. Could you consider improving it somehow?

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. Electric networks are setup to be incredibly fast no matter how many entities are connected (the cost is < linear with the number of entities so the more on a single network the faster it is compared to them on different works).

Simply put: don't make a bunch of tiny networks - a network has a fixed overhead to exist and that can't really be removed. The bigger your network the better it is performance wise compared to multiple smaller ones.

[Aeternus]

Does this count for completely isolated networks too? I tend to run mining outpost on an isolated network, solar powered, so I don't need to run power from my main base (and risk blackouts since the damned biters keep wrecking the big poles). If having a few dozen mining bases each with their own solar powered grid leads to performance issues I might need to rethink that.

[Rseding91]

Does this count for completely isolated networks too? I tend to run mining outpost on an isolated network, solar powered, so I don't need to run power from my main base (and risk blackouts since the damned biters keep wrecking the big poles). If having a few dozen mining bases each with their own solar powered grid leads to performance issues I might need to rethink that.

Yes.