Hello, you seem to be more active here than on the forum, so I will go ahead and copypaste my forum post here for other people to find later.
Also, feel invited to go grab a beer, I live in Stuttgart as well.
FIrst of all, thank you for the brilliant mod. I love it already, albeit I have not yet built a reactor.
I have two questions - first of all, this "efficiency". I understand the number, but what does it mean in practical terms? Efficiency of 200% means a cell lasts for 400 seconds, efficiency of 50% means a cell lasts for 100s?
Or is it "how much energy a cell provides, 8GJ multiplied by the efficiency factor"?
I have built a setup in creative mode, using ingos formulas, with a reactor and a cooling tower, set it to cool if it reaches >500C. Now what happens is, the default cell lasts for 300s. Assuming that the pump takes some ticks to kick in, and efficiency then jumping around 115% propably, the 8GJ*by 113% would give about 9GJ instead, which would correspond with the second hypothesis, since the power output in that temperature segment * by 300s that the cell lasted would make around that power.
I have then tried to insert a cell from the Plutonium Energy mod, and it does not seem to work, specifically "The nuclear reactor can't use Unknown key "fuel-category-name.PE-MOX" fuel. I have checked noth mods and spoke to Plutonium Energy Author, and it seems that in latest patches he changed the fuel_category to "PE-MOX" from "MOX". I tried making a change into your mod myself, changing
[code]if data.raw["fuel-category"]["MOX"] then
table.insert(reactor_template.energy_source.fuel_categories,"MOX")
end[/code]
to
[code]if data.raw["fuel-category"]["PE-MOX"] then
table.insert(reactor_template.energy_source.fuel_categories,"PE-MOX")
end[/code],
but it did not work. Do you mind fixing that? It would be great. I have no experience with factorio mod writing, so it does not always make sense to me.
I have then also checked how you algorithm would work with the 20gj plutonium cell the mod is offering, and to my understanding there is no specific formula for it. Am I missing something, or is it intended? It seems to me, that if it would work, it would output the same energy as a uranium cell does, but for a longer period of time.
Also, I am wondering, what these lines do:
[code]data.raw["heat-pipe"]["heat-pipe"].boiler = "1MJ"
data.raw["boiler"]["heat-exchanger"].energy_source.specific_heat = "1MJ"[/code]
What do these do in data.lua? I am not certain. I tried analyzing the data.raw, and finding the parameters, but the first one seems nonexistant, and the second one seems to be 1MJ in data.raw per default?
