Bug: plasma distributor creates free batteries v0.7.2.9 (0.15.17)

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A Plasma Distributor creates batteries from nothing when connected to regular Power Storage (with at least 1 battery in it).
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saif_talbi

Krzeszny What is the name or link of a mod?

Lafiel

Krzeszny Thanks for your effort.
This is not bug but now it is. 😃 LOL
By design the distributor auto-grabs power from all tiles adjacent to it including diagonals.
The power you see the crew getting out is actually grabbed from the solar cell generator with a value of 2/1000.

So I used this opportunity to update the code with the latest game feature wit multiammo to address the old feature's weakness of not supporting accounting checks.
But this change seems to have revealed a new game bug about accounting making power from the storage disappear completely.
Anyhow, I've uploaded the new changes and wait for Walt to look at the new bug.

YAreyaREdAzE Yes, that's emitter light. Probably not gonna fix it any time soon.

saif_talbi

that mod very good

BrutaTralb

saif_talbi its literally in sub-section name

YAreyaREdAzE

another funny thing is that the inner shield arc is hidden away behind the part :agony:

YAreyaREdAzE

Lafiel fair enough

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Lafiel Are you sure it grabs power from the solar cells and not the storage? I tested it with a small power storage and it didn't work. Haven't tested without adjacent power generators though.

Lafiel

Krzeszny Pretty certain. There are two ways of veryfication:

game play and observation: a part usually has to consume 50% of a battery before a request if made. Usually you can see the part missing a battery. Also the frequency depends on the consumption rate. Since the rate is obviously low and no battery change visible while constantly being supplied can only mean the battery-amount is a very little. Either that or consumption is extreme. You can counter check by having a normal setup on the side (separated ship compartment ofc).
You can use the new part debugger feature to see the values in developer mode.

So it's not a bug.
I've updated & uploaded NB2 with the new feature code but that's bugged now for Walt to look at. So if you download it (has some other adjustments) just take the old plasma_distributor.txt and overwrite the new txt file.