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1 Where Prestige should go first

Prestige Points buy upgrades, fuel blocks, protective gear and radioactive waste cleanup. Those four categories have very different characters, and treating them as one shopping list wastes points.

The ordering follows from the last row. Every point spent on cleanup is a point you did not spend on capability, so the cheapest upgrade is the mistake you did not make.

2 Chemistry is maintenance, not a puzzle

The chemical module covers boric acid dosing, ion exchange filtration and pH management. New players tend to ignore it until something forces attention, which is exactly the wrong pattern.

Water chemistry drifts slowly and its consequences appear late, so it behaves like maintenance rather than like a challenge to be solved once. Check it on a schedule, at the same point in every session, and it will rarely become a problem.

3 Thermal balance under load

The game describes a delicate equilibrium between steam generation, coolant flow and energy output, and warns that losing it causes system failures. That equilibrium is easiest to hold when you are not repeatedly demanding changes from it.

In practice, a plant held at a steady moderate output is far more stable than one chasing the maximum. Since daily objectives are production goals rather than records, steady output that reliably meets the target beats a spiky profile that occasionally exceeds it.

When you do need more power, move in steps and let the thermal side catch up between them. The turbine and the cooling towers respond on their own timescale, and getting ahead of them is how a routine adjustment becomes an emergency.

4 Daily objectives and community demand

Meeting energy production goals earns Prestige and Experience Points, and levelling up unlocks more challenging scenarios. That creates a natural tension: the reward for running the plant well is a harder plant to run.

The other half is economic. You balance fuel consumption, maintenance costs and community demands, so an objective met by burning through fuel and deferring maintenance is not really met, it is borrowed against.

A useful habit is to treat the daily objective as a floor rather than a target, and to bank the difference between comfortable output and maximum output as reliability rather than as extra points.

5 Emergencies: order of operations

Equipment failures, floods and fires all arrive without warning and all demand quick decisions. What they share is that panic produces the wrong sequence.

A workable order is to stabilise the reactor first, then protect the people and equipment, then repair, and only then return to production targets. AO helps with alarm systems and crisis management, so use it to handle the parts you would otherwise be clicking through.

Protective gear bought in advance belongs in this section rather than in the shopping list, because it determines which parts of the plant you can reach during an incident. Buying it after the flood starts is the expensive version.

6 Are the add-ons worth it

Three add-ons exist and they differ sharply in what they do. The AO Extra Power Pack is free, so there is no decision to make there: take it, since more capable assistance is straightforwardly useful.

The New Generator Set advertises a 50 percent longer lifespan than other models. That is a maintenance saving rather than a new system, so its value depends on how much your maintenance costs are currently hurting.

Island Fauna adds wildlife that roams, reacts to the player and behaves differently as conditions change. It is atmosphere rather than mechanics, and worth buying for the same reason people buy soundtracks: because the hours spent in that environment are the point.