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Jump Inhibitor Block [Depreciated]

This mod has been broken for some time. Since I'm not modding Space Engineers anymore I'm also not going to be fixing it. It is therefore depreciated and should not be used. Anyone who wants to get it working has full permission to publish their own version.

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This mod adds a fully functional Jump Inhibitor block to the game. That’s really all that needs to be said, if you want some more info, read on…

W4stedspace mentioned he wanted a jump inhibitor to make battles in his PvPvP series a riskier investment of resources. People just jump away as soon as they see they are losing and so it has proven near to impossible for either side to actually do any real damage. This is an inherent problem with Space Engineers PvP combat, and so I set about coming up with a solution, this mod.

This mod adds a new ‘Jump Inhibitor’ block which has the following properties:
• 7 by 7 by 5 blocks.
• Has an appropriately ridiculous component cost.
• Acts as a Beacon with a max radius of 50km.
• Draws 20 kilowatts of energy per metre of radius (configurable in config file), that’s 1 gigawatt at 50km!
• Provides terminal options for preventing jumps originating within the field and for preventing jumps into the field.
• Looks like a massive jump drive, because I’m hopeless at modelling.
• Has construction stages (also the same as Jump Drives).
• Is coded for performance, only runs code when someone presses the jump button, and most of it is run on the client to preserve server performance.
• The only code that runs on the server is the detection of inhibitors, so an inhibitor can inhibit jumps even if the client hasn’t streamed in that particular inhibitor (sync distance is irrelevant).

Due to the amount of client-server communication required to work around the sync distance problem this mod is extremely complicated. Although it has been extensively tested there may still be bugs, please let me know of any odd behaviour you encounter, I can’t fix problems I don’t know about ;)

Due to some technical restrictions the mod can’t determine the jump coordinates of GPS points that you have deleted from your GPS list or belong to a player who isn’t on the server at the time. To prevent this from being exploited to jump into inhibitor fields the mod will prevent you from jumping if it cannot determine the target coordinates, even if there are no inhibitors in the world. So please, for your own good, don’t delete GPS points you intend to use in jump drives!

You can’t rename a jump inhibitor to a name that does not contain “jump inhibitor”. The whole point of it being a Beacon is so that people know what’s inhibiting them. THIS IS NOT A BUG :P