NOOOO it's not compatible with the new update :'(

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you could use this for small ships with no reactor

That's pretty dope. I remember seeing builds that would loop a beam and then remove the emitter while the beam still existed, or prime a loop with another ship. It would be challenging and fun to try to do that with this mod, but it actually has a purpose other than looking cool.

If you use modded ion prisms that generate extra ion power (I've seen some that does like +25% per beam rather than -25%, for example), yes you can have infinite power by supplying beam emitters with siphons.
At that point, it's your decision. I'm not going to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do in the game.

like in a loop?

If I use a mod that gives better Ion Prisms, could I power a ship entirely off of THE BEAM?

Explosion effect strength is now capped at 100x. For reference, that's about the same explosion strength as the output prism of a 256-beam setup (with optimal merging) getting blown up.

Interesting. I'll look at how to cap the explosion effect to avoid overflow.

请问能关闭摧毁爆炸的效果吗？蓄能过多时被摧毁产生爆炸时游戏闪退报错了，我猜是过高的爆炸导致数值溢出。translation：Can you turn off the effect of destroying the explosion?When there is too much energy storage, when the component is destroyed and it explodes, the game will report an error. I guess it is too high explosion that leads to numerical overflow.

You absolute legend - thank you!

Ok, mod should be fixed for game v0.27.1 now. Thanks for letting me know.

Sorry my man, but this mod seems to be crashing again. I took a look at it in VScode, but couldn't make heads or tails of what this issue was.

With a change to the receiver capacity, I think this mod should be core game, if that helps motivate you! Thank you!

Right, thanks for reminding me. Crash with 0.23.1 should be fixed now.

* Angry mutterings about how walt breaks all my mods every single patch *

the mod crashes every time i try it

this mod looks promising, i wonder what shenanigans i can get up to with this

Many thanks!

My bad, I lost track of which of my mods have been updated for crew construction xD
Crash should be fixed now

unfortunately as soon as I built it I got System.InvalidOperationException: No component named 'IonEnergy' in part 'syy1125.ion_beam_receiver'.

Compatibility patch with The Cable Age is up

Yeah ok, I'll poke around, see what that will take

@Darklight I'm willing to consider it, at least. What exactly do you want the siphon to be compatible with?

this is a cool way to use a mother ship to charge lil baby shipz.

@syy1125: Thanks for your input. My efficiency-focused brain didn't even consider something like a novelty mod that exists just for the hell of it. I may have no use for it, but I do hope you'll find tons of more creative players than I out there for your content :-).

@Sumatris yeah there was some similar discussion in the discord thread as well. IMO it's not "use OP thing from OP mod to minmax the fleet" and more of a "here's something interesting you can do, have fun making whacky designs".

@peeperonic that's a vanilla mechanic and there's not much I can do about it, unfortunately.

this allows me for other ships to supply a larger ship that has no reactors because you couldent afford a reactor for it . i realy like the design. but i noticed the ion lasers dosent penerate the ships shields :/

you can have other ships supplying power by shooting with their beam

Hm. I still don't see any actual use for this system on the type of ships I usually build, but thanks for the explanation regardless :-).

Sumatris, it’s because you are able to transmit energy to a section of ship without a reactor that can be blown up, or it can act as a backup power source on a ship with no reactors left. Looks really cool

I don't get the point of this. Why would I want to draw batteries from a part I had to power up with batteries before, and with suboptimal efficiency at that?

This feels like it could be one crazy bomb and also like with some finnagling it could make for excellent specialized armor.

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