Entity electric power consumption

[thatspsychotic]

So after receiving a response to a modding interface request: viewtopic.php?f=221&t=67648

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to calculate an entity's (near-real-time, e.g. previous tick) power consumption. How does the game provide power consumption statistics if each entity does not report back what its power consumption is?

[bobingabout]

There's a lot that the game does that it doesn't give modders access to. so it will be reporting back, you just don't have access to read that report.

[thatspsychotic]

Do you think my modding interface request was too narrow then? The explanation seemed to indicate that what I asked for wasn't possible, so maybe I didn't ask for exactly the right thing? I'm pretty new to this.