Capacitor Entity/Building

[Funtime60]

Since accumulators are based on batteries and have a medium capacity with a low discharge I think that the new supercapacitors in space age should get their own version with low capacity but medium/high discharge.

Potential options are a 1x1 footprint and also using superconductors an other Fulgora materials in the construction.

My hope is that this could ease the number of accumulators needed for spontaneous demand like lasers. Although this would work best if Factorio featured battery charge leveling.

I could probably do the base functionality myself since it'd just be a base accumulator with tweaked charge/capacity values and recipes. The issue is that this needs a name and ideally a new model for the building. Neither of which I can do.

[eugenekay]

A decent idea, which is probably already on an Official Backlog somewhere. Steam Engines upgrade to Turbines; why not Accumulators to SuperCapacitors? There is also no Real Reason to Need this, and each additional building is more for the Art Department to work on…. I have my fingers crossed for something in Version 2.1, but there is no need to wait: Mod Already Exists.

Good Luck!

[Funtime60]

That's not what I want. Supercapacitors are not a direct upgrade to batteries, they have a MUCH lower capacity than batteries.