Adds concentrated solar energy based around heliostat mirrors, which can point at solar power towers to generate heat for heliothermal energy production, or solar lens towers to generate giant lasers.
If a mirror is within range of both a laser tower and a power tower, it should prioritize the power tower unless enemies are in range of the laser tower, at which point it should start powering the laser tower instead.
Would be a pretty cool way to defend heliostatic fields and make laser towers not feel like a waste of opportunity. Watching 20mw+ worth of energy just sitting idly there hurts, being able to capitalize on it while idle would be nice.
The opportunity cost is big, yeah - the solution I eventually want for this is tower chaining, with intermediate mirror towers that could direct light where it is needed - see the threads marked [chaining].
Either that or this will be quite complicated to implement well, and I don't currently have the bandwidth sadly. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Oh that's a neat idea, a long range network of lasers across the map would definitely be cool. I especially love the super long range electric energy transmission concept for powering outposts.
If you end up implementing that, you should make laser towers send a signal whenever they detect an enemy, that way you could wire them up to the lens towers to switch focus.
Looking forward to whatever you end up doing, great mod!
