Supply Corridors

Designer225

I have noticed that supply corridors do not affect parts that don't have the uses_power category. Commenting out this piece of code

			PartCriteria
			{
				Category = uses_power
			}

allows them to power parts that have the BatteryStorage battery storage components, regardless of whether they have the uses_power type. It does mean supply corridors receive more charge, though - but I'm not sure if it's a bad thing 😉

It still doesn't affect battery storage components with a name other than BatteryStorage, though.

Edit: as an aside, what should I do to ensure that modules at the farther end of the supply network can readily obtain whatever they need (say batteries, which seemed to be the universal resource anyway)?

Lafiel

It is a bad thing to make them supply indiscriminately. You don't want them to supply reactors do you or parts that have BatteryStorage but don't require supply because it's not used to power a part but for logic. That would mess up the function of the part. Also if they supply all around the flow would locally be stuck as it back flows between the supply corridors or hogged by other parts. This would slow down the network at best or worse cut off at some distance.

You need more input point (reactors, storage) and or use the plasma_distributors along. It's always a good idea to have redundancy and some open recirculation.