What if you could play real-world wind farms in Turbine Tycoon?
This is exactly what I've been looking at in my latest experiments.
I thought it would be fun to let you pick various real wind farms around Great Britain (maybe even the world) and then let you loose to see how well you can manage them.
Can you keep up with the maintenance requirements?
What are you going to do when there's an issue with the export cable?
How would you expand the wind farm to increase capacity?
Can you keep it profitable?
What would happen if you upgraded the wind farm by re-powering the turbines?
What about when the sea is rough and your engineers are too sick to fix things? (genuinely something stupid I'm playing with)
Plus a whole bunch more…
I've started with Gwynt-y-Mor as it's one of my local offshore wind farms. The layout is particularly recognisable for me and it's been loads of fun seeing it appear in the isometric world of the game.
Do you have a particular wind farm you'd want to play?
And what other features would you like to see in the game?
Robin Hawkes ⚡️
Don Thompson