How much power do Home Solar Panels provide

Does the capacity of the road influence how many agents can travel down it simultaneously?

No. Number of lanes and whether there are stop signs or traffic lights only affect traffic agents. They do not affect non-traffic agents.

• Traffic agents include police, fire, ambulance, garbage trucks, delivery trucks, moving trucks and of course sims driving their cars.
• Non-traffic agents include power, water, sewage and of course pedestrian sims.

Power and water agents are absorbed as they pass buildings with available capacity. While the agents aren't affected by road capacity, they can be depleted by passing many buildings. If you layout your city with a powerplant at position 1, it is unlikely that agents will reach buildings at position 2.

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Update: There was a sewage issue fixed in patch 1.8.

Fixed a clog in the pipes where sewage would sometimes get backed up and act jittery.

First, some in-game time conversions (which can be deduced by comparing the "budget month income" to the "hourly income" in the budget window).

• 24 hours = 1 day = 1 budget month
• 288 hours = 12 days = 12 budget months = 1 budget year

You pay 4500 simoleans for one 1000 barrel shipment of oil on today's market. When the oil plant is built, it starts with 2000 barrels.

The oil plant burns:

• 1.2 barrels per 2 minutes
• 36 barrels burned in 1 hour
• 864 barrels per day (aka per budget month) - which is worth 3888 simoleans.

The 856 hourly expense is on top of that, so that's another 20544 simoleans daily.

There should be 86% * 12 = 10.3 import shipments per year. So expect a shipment almost every month.

I would strongly recommend against the oil plant until your city requires over 100 MW. There is no way to scale the plant's costs back, ala simcity4.