AAI Loaders: Electric powered

AAI Loaders: Electric power

Makes all loaders created by Earendel's AAI Loaders mod powered via electricity rather than being free or requiring lubricant

Details

• AAI Loaders mod is forced into "expensive" unlubricated mode,

to make sure its lubricant supply scripting won't even try to run.

• Unlubricated recipes adjusted to cost roughly 5 times less. Powering with electricity

is itself simpler than supplying lubricant, so making loaders roughly 2 times more expensive than lubricant mode looks fair enough

• All loaders now use Factorio's native energy system via "energy_source" property.

This makes them run at native speeds. No scripting.

• Base cost of each item transported is 6kJ, yet it lowers slightly with each speed

tier above 15 items/s. As a result, normal loader is 92kW, fast is ~166kW and express is ~225kW.

Known shortcomings

• Loaders description says they have no cost. This is because localization wasn't touched at all
• Recipe adjustment logic is very primitive, so may not always play as desired
• Power consumption graph looks like buzzsaw because loader consumes power not steadily every tick but when item is transferred
• Max power consumption is shown incorrectly; yellow loader would show it as 722kW while it should've been 92kW. This is probably because consumption is computed like 2 items are transferred per tick, which results in 60 ticks * 2 lanes * power-per-item. The real median consumption is 92kW for yellow loader - 15IPS * 6kJPI + 2kW drain

Special thanks

• Wube, for the awesome game
• Earendel, for awesome standalone loaders mod