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Extra Battery Types: Capacitor and Reserve Power
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block
Tags: development
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3 Oct, 2016 @ 10:55pm
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Extra Battery Types: Capacitor and Reserve Power

Description
This does not override the default block.
The default battery is still there and not modified.

The two new blocks have the same model and icon as the default battery. They also have the same default material cost, weight, and integrity.
These blocks just handle the power differently, and in way that (I hope) is balanced enough to maintain the vanilla feel.


This adds 2 new batteries.

Capacitor:
2x Flow rate
1/2x storage

Reserve:
1/20x flow rate
20x storage



These specialtiy batteries are meant to allow choices to builders based on specific needs.

Capacitors are great for projects like gravity cannons. It's also useful for shields or warp drive. Anything that needs to use a lot of power, but only for a relatively short burst.

Reserve power is meant to help keep the lights on. One reserve is generally just enough to keep the lights on and keep the medical room and life support running. It's also useful for lower power consumption devices like probes or small turet emplacements.
7 Comments
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SilverFoxSpectre 16 May @ 11:18pm 
Thank you, cheers!
DonCDXX  [author] 14 May @ 10:35am 
I give permission for anyone to alter and repost any of my mods.
SilverFoxSpectre 14 May @ 6:27am 
Can confirm it still works as intended. Love this mod, but I wanted to make a tweaked variation of it. Mind if I cannibalize your code, reupload, and credit you? Cheers.
DonCDXX  [author] 2 Apr @ 11:22pm 
I don't know if this still works. It's all fairly simple so it should still work, but I am far from certain.
If you try it out, please report back on whether it works or not.
MaxStone 2 Apr @ 10:56pm 
this is an awesome idea. Any idea if this is still after......... 11 years?
DonCDXX  [author] 4 Oct, 2016 @ 12:44pm 
@andbruu I had the capcitor at the level it is because multiplying their respective numbers by reciprocals with any lower stored power felt like it had too little to be useful. I believe 1/10th of a large battery is 300kw. That's not enough on it's own to run a refinery for any meangingful amount of time.

Power input rate and output rate are different variables that may have independent values from each other. Your idea could easily be accomplished.
andbruu 4 Oct, 2016 @ 6:34am 
Very interresting. I wonder if the capacitor is different enough. Would increasing it to 10xflow and 1/10th storage make it worthless, or really give it a different profile?
Since you have been looking at the batteri code, could you tell if it would be possible to have a battery with different flow for recharge and discharge?
ex a battery with x10 recharge speed but one-tenth the discharge rate - useful to quckly recharge probes... and the reverse for very-limited use capacitors