Why do only some of my lightning rods have battery packs the day after a storm?
Are they too close together or is that normal? Never noticed before
by thisissemipaternal
Why do only some of my lightning rods have battery packs the day after a storm?
Are they too close together or is that normal? Never noticed before
by thisissemipaternal
10 Comments
its just a chance that each one will get hit, not a guarantee.
Only some of them were struck by lightning
It’s not 100% chance every lightning rod will get a charge in a storm if you have multiple. Here’s the equation:
chance to intercept = 1 – (number of charged lightning rods / total number of lightning rods)
You generally want this, because if all your rods get used it means you either were really lucky or your farm has been damaged with either trees getting hit or crops being destroyed.
Nah, that’s normal. Storms only hit a few rods, not all of em.
The first lightning strike of a storm day is guaranteed to hit a rod. After that the percentage chance that a lightning strike will hit a rod decreases and changes based on how many lightning rods are charged. If you want to see a more in depth explanation you can read the lightning rod page of the wiki.
I’ve always wanted to know if the rods act, as I assume, to protect crops etc and so should be spaced out across the farm, or if I’m wasting my time doing that and should just leave a clump of them somewhere.
They just didn’t get struck by lightning, is all
You actually want it to be like this. If all your lightning rods get hit, that means you don’t have enough of them and there’s a chance your farm gets struck anyway. Having at least a couple with no battery means the lightning didn’t get a chance to ruin your crops.
Every ten minutes in game until midnight lightning has a chance to strike and doesn’t always strike uncharged rods.
Daily luck makes a massive difference on whether lightning will strike. With low daily luck is very unlikely to get a strike.
If you go to bed before midnight you lose potential strikes.