Mod idea: The LAED tower

Impatient · Post by **Impatient** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:37 am

I have an idea for a special type of power pole, the LAED tower. LAED (or maybe LAPD) stands for Large Area Energy/Power Distribution.

The characteristics of the LAED tower would be these:
1. Supplying power to clients in a large area (let's say 100x100 tiles for now)
2. The distribution to clients far away comes with a loss of energy (for now let's say clients in the LAED area consume 1.5 times the amount of power than normal)
3. The LAED area stretches conical in one direction from the LAED tower. This could be implemented at once if the area of energy distribution of this type of power pole can be off center, like so

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| LAED  |                                                   | 
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|                  Area of Energy Distribution              |
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4. The electric cable connection radius of the LAED tower is like one or two tiles, meaning the power grid has to be extended to right next to the LAED tower and the LAED tower can not be used to easily extend the power grid over vast distances.

What are your thoughts?

I know point 1 and 4 can be implemented with the modding API. But what about points 2 and 3?
Reg 2: Does the modding API somehow tell how many entities are supplied by the area of one specific power pole and how much power they consume? If not, as a 2nd best option, can a power pole itself be made to consume power?
Reg 3: Can the area of power distribution be made to be off the center of a power pole? And as a sweet feature - can it havve a different shape than a rectangle?