Suggestion for a Power Overhaul Mod - Interest?
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 4:02 pm
Hi,
as someone familiar with writing various mods for other games (although i haven't done anything ith factorio yet), and also being a physics student with having electronics as sort of a hobby, it came to my mind that one thing which factorio really needs is a more complex power System, in Terms of being more realistic.
Of course one rather obvious thing missing is losses.
So if your comments show some interest, and i get someone to volunteer for making graphics later on, i look into the api if it is possible to make a mod that:
->Introduces Voltage and Current instead of the "demand-Satisfaction" system
->Introduce power losses based on Current (so that the voltage declines)
->Introduces Transformers (several tiers with increasing maximum voltage and efficiency)
->make the machines have a maximum voltage, as well as a minimum voltage at which they can operate (at a slower speed)
->make sort of a resistance curve for machines, so that when there is not enough production, the voltage declines, and so does the current and power, so in an high demand situation the Voltage declines just like it would in real world
->if i still got time after that, introducing a complex impedance for the machines, so that an induction smelter needs for blind current compensation.
So what do you think of that?
Would you use such a mod?
thanks for any comment,
Boldar
as someone familiar with writing various mods for other games (although i haven't done anything ith factorio yet), and also being a physics student with having electronics as sort of a hobby, it came to my mind that one thing which factorio really needs is a more complex power System, in Terms of being more realistic.
Of course one rather obvious thing missing is losses.
So if your comments show some interest, and i get someone to volunteer for making graphics later on, i look into the api if it is possible to make a mod that:
->Introduces Voltage and Current instead of the "demand-Satisfaction" system
->Introduce power losses based on Current (so that the voltage declines)
->Introduces Transformers (several tiers with increasing maximum voltage and efficiency)
->make the machines have a maximum voltage, as well as a minimum voltage at which they can operate (at a slower speed)
->make sort of a resistance curve for machines, so that when there is not enough production, the voltage declines, and so does the current and power, so in an high demand situation the Voltage declines just like it would in real world
->if i still got time after that, introducing a complex impedance for the machines, so that an induction smelter needs for blind current compensation.
So what do you think of that?
Would you use such a mod?
thanks for any comment,
Boldar