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Conveyor Cost Rebalance

The vanilla conveyor and tube construction materials make little sense, with large ship tubes costing (and massing) more than conveyors, and inconsistencies in cost between straight and curved sections. Vanilla tube recipes also still include glass, even though the models have been updated to remove windows.
Small ship conveyors are also overpriced for their size, in vanilla.

I have adjusted the cost of large, medium (small ship 3x3) and small conveyors to what I think is reasonable. All straight tubes are now the same cost as corners of the same size. I have not changed container costs.


Conveyor
No change from vanilla

• Interior Plate: 20
• Construction Component: 30
• Small Tube: 20
• Motor: 6

Tube (Straight/Curved)

• Interior Plate: 14 (was 10 steel)
• Construction Component: 20 (was 40)
• Small Tube: 12 (no change)
• Motor: 2 (was 6)
• Glass requirement removed

Conveyor

• Interior Plate: 15 (was 25)
• Construction Component: 10 (was 70!)
• Small Tube: 12 (was 25)
• Motor: 2 (no change)

Tube (Straight/Curved)

• Interior Plate: 10 (was 8 steel)
• Construction Component: 6 (was 30)
• Small Tube: 8 (no change)
• Motor: 2 (was 6)

Short Tube Segment
Exactly half the ingredients of a 3-block tube as above

• Interior Plate: 5 (was 4 steel)
• Construction Component: 3 (was 12)
• Small Tube: 4 (was 5)
• Motor: 1 (was 2)

No cost changes from vanilla.

Conveyor

• Interior Plate: 4
• Construction Component: 4
• Motor: 1

Tube (Straight/Curved)
Part build orders changed so straight and curved match, and now all 3 parts must be present for tubes to work.

• Interior Plate: 1
• Construction Component: 1
• Motor: 1

2015-10-30
Changed name from "Reworked Conveyor Construction Costs" for brevity

2015-10-30

• Rebalanced large conveyors around Keen's recent changes to large conveyor cost
• Replaced steel with interior plates in tube recipes

2015-06-27

• updated to include damage effects from vanilla block definition