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Hull's Economical Laser Antenna (Obsolete)
   
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block
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25 Oct, 2018 @ 5:38am
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Hull's Economical Laser Antenna (Obsolete)

Description
2024-11-17: with the "contact" update, the power consumption of the laser antenna is now lowered by 90% in the vanilla game, rendering my mod obsolete after six years.

I will leave the mod here in case, anyone is running older versions of the game for whatever reason.

DESCRIPTION
All this mod does is reducing the laser antennas power consumption by 90%.
So instead of ~100MW at 2000km distance it now consumpts ~10MW.
30 Comments
Spirit Yoshino 18 Dec, 2024 @ 8:50pm 
End of an Era. o7
Hull Breach  [author] 17 Nov, 2024 @ 3:58am 
@r4v1n6 thank you for the information. If that's the case then I will mark the mod as "obsolete"
r4v1n6 16 Nov, 2024 @ 9:25am 
The latest game update, Contact lowers the power consumption of Laser Antenna's by 90% (same as this mod) and also lowers power consumption while idle even more. I guess the devs finally realised how crazy it was before.

I've been using this mod for quite some time, but it looks like it's time for it to retire. Thank you for all the years of saner power usage that it gave me.
Aether 17 Oct, 2024 @ 6:35pm 
@Syroth Yo! Did you ever get around to adopting it?
Hull Breach  [author] 22 Sep, 2022 @ 12:20pm 
Hi, feel free to use my mods and continue them as you want. Thank you for asking. You can also port them to the other mod hubs, if you wish.
Syroth 22 Sep, 2022 @ 6:45am 
@Hull Breach - Permission to adopt this project, crediting you indefinitely?

It may still work.. but I see in your workshop the newest item you have, holds a comment from you stating you arent as active and your work can be adopted moving forward.

This scratches a long-term itch for me, and I already know others share my 'demand' for this. This makes me interested in prepping things.

I've been playing SE since the week it was released onto steam, and don't plan on stopping soon. I'd look to maintain this indefinitely.

thanks in advance, and thanks for your contributions to our community! cheers and good luck
Willa Grey 27 May, 2021 @ 8:56pm 
Works great for me - thanks!
ChardWreck 28 Apr, 2021 @ 6:21pm 
Unless I'm missing something, this mod appears to break all my laser antenna. They can't seem to connect. Uninstalled the mod and everything is working again.
Hull Breach  [author] 5 Jan, 2021 @ 2:04am 
You're welcome! :steamthumbsup:
Loki492 4 Jan, 2021 @ 9:18pm 
Thank you for making Laser Antennas viable!
All that work to set up plus mobile grid vs mobile grid shenanigans and oh wait,
even more power inefficient than a directionless signal?!?
Now actually a reason to use plus decent option on small grid.