Smart Inserter - Delay Switch
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:47 am
You know how trains will wait at a stop for a certain length of time? I got to thinking, what if that was added to Smart Inserters?
The general idea is that, when you place an S-Insterter all the standard options appear, except that a small "clock" icon is at the bottom. When you click it an extra box comes up, that looks just like the timer for the Train. Say you set the timer to 5, the S-Insterter would only work once every 5 seconds. The inclusion of a timer alone would be an "activator" condition, similar to how simply having a Logistic's connection is an activator.
Secondarily, the "Timer" condition would function after the logistics condition. So, say you had an S-Inserter set to work only if you had 100 Circuits or less, you could then set a delay of say, 10 seconds, so that the S-Inserter would only function once every 10 seconds while there's less than 100 Circuits in its connection.
And that's my idea, really. I don't know "what" it would be useful for, but it just seems like something that Smart Inserters should be capable of.
-Sgt. Cookie
The general idea is that, when you place an S-Insterter all the standard options appear, except that a small "clock" icon is at the bottom. When you click it an extra box comes up, that looks just like the timer for the Train. Say you set the timer to 5, the S-Insterter would only work once every 5 seconds. The inclusion of a timer alone would be an "activator" condition, similar to how simply having a Logistic's connection is an activator.
Secondarily, the "Timer" condition would function after the logistics condition. So, say you had an S-Inserter set to work only if you had 100 Circuits or less, you could then set a delay of say, 10 seconds, so that the S-Inserter would only function once every 10 seconds while there's less than 100 Circuits in its connection.
And that's my idea, really. I don't know "what" it would be useful for, but it just seems like something that Smart Inserters should be capable of.
-Sgt. Cookie
