Orbital Interlink

by Kubius

Accumulator-type device able to transfer electricity between a planet and the space platforms orbiting it.

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18 days ago
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Power

g [Fixed?] inconsistent power supply

19 days ago

I had 5.3GW solar setup in orbit and 4 purple interlinks in orbit as well as 4 on planet, but the planetary demand constantly jumped between not enough and fully satisfied, unsure what the min was but it was fully satisfied at 4.4GW. I had 0 power production on planet at the time

18 days ago

Did this start with a particular game update, that you can tell? Second such report I've received recently after months of no reported issues.

18 days ago

This was my first time using them so I really wouldn't know

18 days ago

Looking into possible improvements - hoping to have something ready reasonably soon.

18 days ago
(updated 18 days ago)

Just deployed 0.1.1 which should significantly improve performance under full load, through transmission logic changes. If it doesn't do the trick, I also added a config option to increase the equalization frequency.

18 days ago

I dont know if this was contributing, but I am wondering of what possible use cases are there for being able to transfer the power back and forth ? wouldn't it make more sense to have the interlinks have a toggle like on the Cerys accumulators, so it either sends or receives ?

18 days ago

The behavior is less a specific objective of the design, and more a consequence of the way the transfer is implemented. There are probably more sophisticated ways to implement the behavior, but they're outside of my technical knowhow.

18 days ago
(updated 18 days ago)

fair. I am playing on a multiplayer game and am not the host, but once it gets updated I'll try to let you know how it goes.
I did also notice that the interlink is not placeable on Moshine due to its accumulator restrictions, not sure if that's something you'd like to address or if its fine as is.

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