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I tried to make plugin for laser turrets range research similarly as artillery ranges.

But I found that for laser turrets there are missing modifier for modify range. Artillery has this modifier (although it is NOT documented).
technology.lua I could made new turrets mk2 mk3 mk4 etc. but i want it to be infinite so making new entities is kinda odd here.

Please consider add some new effects to http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.16.22/Con ... l#Modifier
so these can be modified via plugins with researches like other stuff, robot cargo, artillery range etc.

Effects:

• gun-turret-range
  laser-turret-range
  personal-laser-turret-range

Names here are only examples.

not sure if this is correct definition, but some like this: Would be this possible?

I think the closest thing that exists that does what you're suggesting there is... gun turret damage, that defines a damage increase specifically to gun turrets.

you can also specify +damage or +firing speed to ammo categories (all gun ammo, you have one for laser turrets, etc.)

The only thing that has a range bonus that I know of is the artillery weapon, I can't check right now (if what I'm thinking of actually exists, or look at how the code works), but you should look at that to see how it works, and if you can assign it to a different weapon type.

if not, you could request it to be done.

there is also the possibility that there is a type to do this, but isn't used anywhere.

I could not find such modifier type anywhere, but yes, there is a chance that is already here, but is not documented in api-doc, just like "aritllery-range"

Oops. This should be probably moved to "Ideas and Suggestions"

According to Posila on a bug report...

Although you can make a technology to increase the range of any ammo category... The effect only works if used on an artillery turret/wagon at the moment.

posila wrote:I have looked through the code and could see that range modifier is specific only to artillery turrets. That sucks

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