Power Consumption without production?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 3:24 am
Ok, with the new Pollution aspects, I am working on a mod that does work, sorta.
The Idea is the make a new form of a power pole, that will filter the air. The poles wouldnt be cheap, so would only put them in areas where pollution would be a issue like replacing the small electric power poles supplying a smelting area with these new ones, each Pole would consume some power, and in turn filter some pollution.
As it stands, the power pole works, it cleans the air, but dosent seem to consume any power.
Looking at the power grid, it dosent show as using any power.
Here is a code sniplet, I am trying to make always consume when power is availible, but seems like it wants to consume to do something, like with a factory, only using its full power while its producing items, otherwise uses almost nothing.
I would like it always consume around the same power as a small assembly plant 1.
Yes the Emmisions are pretty high >.> but the idea is just to test the thing atm, not make it balanced
The Idea is the make a new form of a power pole, that will filter the air. The poles wouldnt be cheap, so would only put them in areas where pollution would be a issue like replacing the small electric power poles supplying a smelting area with these new ones, each Pole would consume some power, and in turn filter some pollution.
As it stands, the power pole works, it cleans the air, but dosent seem to consume any power.
Looking at the power grid, it dosent show as using any power.
Here is a code sniplet, I am trying to make always consume when power is availible, but seems like it wants to consume to do something, like with a factory, only using its full power while its producing items, otherwise uses almost nothing.
I would like it always consume around the same power as a small assembly plant 1.
Yes the Emmisions are pretty high >.> but the idea is just to test the thing atm, not make it balanced
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{
type = "electric",
input_priority = "secondary",
emissions_per_tick = -0.0050,
},
energy_usage_per_tick = 1.5,
Basically you can give it an energy_usage_per_tick or light and while it doesn't give errors, it doesn't use it either (because the C++ code doesn't know to look for anything that the devs didn't expect an electric pole to use). From my understanding of the game anyway.