Electricity as goods for trade

[JimmyAgnt007]

maybe make them hard to produce, require something rare like gold or uranium to make.

At which point you've invented a convoluted way to sell uranium or gold.

Yea, that would be silly, next thing you know we would be making other stuff to sell like art or weapon smithing.

I dont really think it should be a trade good at all, just if we were going to make it one, this would be how id do it.  Settlements are too far apart for SimCity style connections.  Maybe a microwave satellite network.  Beam power into space and back down to a different location.  That seems like it would be too much hassle as well.

[Mathenaut]

Yea, that would be silly, next thing you know we would be making other stuff to sell like art or weapon smithing.

Art and weaponsmithing would be a far more productive use of that uranium or gold, though. Which would defeat the point/purpose of this proposal.

[JimmyAgnt007]

that depends on the balance behind the fictional battery. 

[Johnny Masters]

I could see a scenario or a biome where either wind or solar power is inefficient or impossible (or both), and the discussed battery could have its own niche, or good old gas/fuel. For me, exploding rats opens precedent to a lot of things in this game.

Although i like the microwave redirection thing, it requires a global infra-structure that pushes the game further into the "its not really a rimworld afterall". Not that i really care, but it might bother some.