Space platform, for ground

by snouz

Adapted the space platform tile to work (and look good) on normal ground.

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i [Answered] Usable as electrified floor

6 months ago

In the description it is said it is only for decoration.
It could be useful if it would act as an electrified floor. To be honest this feature is quite appealing.

6 months ago

I thought about it, and found an implementation of this idea, but it is said on the mod page that it's not ups friendly at all

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/PoweredFloorExtended

Which is not surprising, as I believe it adds a hidden power pole on each tile. So I'm not gonna add that as a feature on this mod, but anyone is free to create a mod that uses this one as a dependency and add this feature.

6 months ago

But maybe there's a more UPS friendly way to do that

6 months ago
(updated 6 months ago)

Perhaps doing a calculation on adding new tiles (possibly with a delayed timer to wait for changes to happen before actually doing the script) to replace the numerous poles with bigger range singular ones where possible.

So if there's an area of 15x16 tiles, there would be a 15x15 'pole', 1x10 'pole' and a 1x5 'pole. Depending on how much and which variants are made, this could really improve the situation, though I suppose an algorithm that can reliably do this calculation without overplacing is annoying to make (then again I'm just assuming stuff since I've never actually done such a thing)

6 months ago

Or: create a new substation entity with 9999x9999 area. Or maybe less, and paste it accordingly.

5 months ago

did you look at the code for platforms in space? is that a simple map-wide and invisible substation powergrid like a huge substation or is powering structures in space tied to the space platform somehow?
you might get a clue on how to make it more ups friendly from that.

3 months ago

with out power support like the space platform this is disappointing i hope it gets added

2 months ago
(updated 2 months ago)

with out power support like the space platform this is disappointing i hope it gets added

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/electric-tiles/discussion/685b45339a236f1a21500272
use this for that ...it is implemented there :D

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