Newcomer / Intro Do Power Regulators eventually wear out? (Odyssey)

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So I had come up with a genius idea to get some odyssey stuffs (mainly for gear upgrades). The idea was fairly straightforward, steal a working Power Regulator from a active settlement, and use it to power up abandoned settlements that were abandoned as the result of Thargoids, and then take whatever was left behind. Additionally, I would recover the Power Regulator after each use. In theory, this would allow me to plunder as many settlements as I pleased. Easy pickings, right?

Well, at the latest settlement, I was working on one of the buildings when suddenly there was a small bang. The power went out immediately afterward, with not even any advance warning from the Power Center.
I wasn't in the Power Center at the time, so I am uncertain what happened, but one thing is certain, the power regulator I was using is MIA.
I considered that maybe I just got unlucky and a player took the regulator, but that would require a full shutdown, I would have been alerted long before it completes.
Which leads to the thread's main question. Can someone confirm this possibility?
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
As far as I know, the PR never wears out. If they did, there'd be a lot more settlements needing a power on! :D

I'm not sure what the bang was and I've never had the power go out on me once the PR was in but then, I never play in open so another player scavenging it isn't outside the realms of possibility. But, as you say, the base would power down first.

The only "bangs" I have heard are when Scavs land and boil up my SRV while I'm busy in a building.
 

Codger

Codger
That's a new one on me. I've powered up a fair few settlements, took what I needed, then retrieved my Power Regulator before leaving. It's always worked so far :)
 

Username164127364871238417623467

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If it happens again I'll log it in the issue tracker, thanks for the help. (as we know in this world though, when ya want something to happen, it doesn't)
Oh, and my SRV was not the culprit.
You should try open sometime, it's pretty fun (and if the gankers get to be a problem, you can always temporarily just go solo).
 

Northpin

Northpin
Shadowsnog said:
...what are degraded power regulators then?
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a source of frustration

and no, the good PR dont wear out and the degraded PR origin is a mystery

Username164127364871238417623467 said:
Can someone confirm this possibility?
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Never heard off, but that's of quite little relevance.

Could have been a bug, but more probably another player nicked your PR (and you missed the announcement or the announcements never reached you).
Or maybe there was a distortion in the space-continuum and your instance somehow got mixed with another player instance (but then again it falls into the bug category)
 
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