Allow resource_drain_rate to be greater than 100

[Laserzwei]

TL;DR

Allow mining-drill.resource_drain_rate to be greater than 100.

What?

Im suggesting to lift the upper limit of mining-drill.resource_drain_rate. This in turn increases the consumption of ore proportionally. At 200 every mining action would consume 2 ores from the patch (instead of 1) and only output a single piece of ore.

Why?

As the author of https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BigDrills, which basically adds larger, faster mining drills I've noticed that with higher tiers of mining drills, there is no incentive to use lower tier ones. Adding a value > 100 to higher tier drills would add a tradeoff between resource output speed and longevity of mining patches, favoring lower tier drill.

[Fenhl]

On a related note, it would be nice if resource_drain_rate could be 0. Currently, 0 is changed to 1. I'd like to make a mod that changes legendary drills to never deplete resources.

[Koub]

[koub] Moved to Modding interface requests.

[curiosity]

Duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=28&t=122209