Fast/Express Belts require Electricity

[Mad Inventor]

Fast/Express Transport Belts Require Electricity

Summary – Basic belts and splitters remain the same, while fast and express belts/splitters require a small amount of electric power.

Advantages -
Players will have more interesting/meaningful choice between the basic belts and the more advanced ones, rather than replacing belts/splitters with higher versions all the time.

Notes -
The fast/express belts and splitters would need to be within the electric network coverage and would run at full speed with full power. If there is a power shortage they would move at proportionally slower speed.
Generic “fast” belts can be renamed “powered” belts to highlight the important difference.

Related Suggestions -
Belt recipes can be changed to make each tier different from the other – again to make a more significant choice between the tiers of belts.
For example – Fast belts/splitters require electronic circuits instead of extra gear wheels which are already part of the basic belt production and therefore of the fast belts.
Express splitters/underground belts require lubricant, as express transport belts do.

[MeduSalem]

Already had that discussion multiple times... and there's even a recent thread about it:

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