Power Transmitter Plus

Power Transmitter Plus Adds a visible beam, scrolling pulses, a configurable distance cost, new logic readouts, and wall and ceiling placement to the Microwave Power Transmitter. Full multiplayer compatibility. Safe to remove from existing savegames. Features Visible Laser Beam A colored beam is drawn between a linked transmitter and receiver whenever the link is up, regardless of whether power is flowing. The beam is at full brightness at all times while visible, so you can see at a glance which dishes are actually connected. Power flow is shown by the pulse train (see below): when no power is flowing, the stripes freeze in place. Scrolling Pulse Train Energy pulses scroll along the beam from transmitter to receiver. Stripe spacing is constant in world meters (same look on a 5m link or a 500m link). Scroll speed scales with power throughput, so a lightly-loaded link is clearly distinguishable from a heavily-loaded one at a glance. Distance Cost Vanilla Stationeers caps microwave transmission capacity based on distance and hard-stops at 500m. This mod removes that cap and replaces it with a source-draw overhead: the transmitter pulls more from its source cable network per watt delivered, proportional to link distance. Formula: source pulls (1 + k * distance_km) watts per watt delivered. With the default k = 5: 0 m: 1. 0 watts in per watt out 100 m: 1. 5 500 m: 3. 5 1 km: 6. 0 5 km: 26. 0 By default there is no per-transmitter throughput cap, so one dish carries as much power as its cables and source allow. An optional Max Transfer Capacity setting (default unlimited; see Settings) re-imposes a per-transmitter watt limit. The vanilla game limit was 5000 W per dish. Logic Types Six logic types are available on both the transmitter and the receiver, readable from configuration tablets and from IC10. Five are read-only readouts; the sixth, MicrowaveAutoAimTarget, is writable: MicrowaveSourceDraw: watts pulled from the source cable network MicrowaveDestinationDraw: watts deli