binbinhfr wrote: So no clue on how to access these consumption data/variables ?

No clue. If I had one, I could continue with my mod!

No, energy is not useful for anything besides boilers and accumulators. And perhaps batteries and other equipment that have an energy pool, but definitely not energy consumption.

Over in this thread , a few things came up. At least two of us are interested in a few of the following items:


Read the effective consumption of an entity? For example, to check if an electric consumer is under-electrified (status of the green electric bar on the entity), i.e. consumes less than ...

Hi,

what are the possibility to get electric network info from the API ? and to tweak them ?
There is the energy variable on the LuaEntity (mainly for accumulators?), and also the consumption_modifier.
But I did not find any other variables... Is there any ?

Is there a way to
- read the effective ...

I'm hoping to introduce one or two more pollution types, and it would be nice to draw them on the (mini)map. I know people are doing some interesting GUI things, but I can't find much information to reference.

Do you guys have any idea of how to approach this? If drawing a shaded box for every ...

First of all, thank you so much!
Seems like most of my problem was about the path names. Now I know about the hierarchy.
Also, I was in the right track about adding the .lua file to the mod folder (tried that a few times) and 'require' it, but I was doing it wrong :P

Now my problem is, since I ...

Well well well, look here.

Noken, after a bit of reading and thinking, I've determined that Line Wars is much more difficult programmatically than my envisioned Colonisation Drone mod. So I will pursue my own project at least while I learn the ropes, so to speak.

If you want to collaborate on a mod, how about you draw up ...

After a bit more reading, I figured out some answers to my own questions:

game.set_game_state{gamefinished = true, playerwon = true} will let me code in new win or lose conditions. So that's the main requirement all squared away.

Since I still haven't come across any information about modding ...

I'm no fan of the late game fighting, it just feels grindy and repetitive.

So I really like the idea of automated battling, and may very well decide to take this further if my own idea gains no traction.

It would be my first mod for Factorio, so I have no real clue as to how difficult this would ...

I've only read a couple of guides about modding, but I haven't been able to figure out of my mod idea is possible. I'm a programmer and can probably figure this out eventually, but I figured I would ask the community about feasibility before jumping in head-first, so to speak.

What I would like is ...