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Lightning Rod

Description
GSI, Inc. is proud to present the next great innovation in all-weather engineering: the lightning rod. Sporting a top-of-the-line conduction finial from Megavolt Manufacturing and a 100% corporeal mounting pedestal made possible by consultants from Kiwi Design, this beauty's got it where it counts. It doesn't just look good, though; researchers in our state-of-the-art laboratories discovered a mysterious property of lightning which causes it to strike metallic entities in its vicinity. Armed with this knowledge, R&D got to work and came up with the concept you see before you: a high-tech lightning interception device. This device will attract incoming lightning, diverting it from damaging vital components within ships and stations and thus saving lives. Truly, engineers—and their families—can rest easier now, knowing GSI technology is always standing between them and the dangers of the galaxy.

[Disclaimer, this device has been known to interfere with the target selection algorithms of automated defense units. Be advised that, should one such unit open fire upon your vehicle or structure, it will likely attempt to destroy any lightning rod it can detect. Use at your own risk.

Technical specs:
Technically a decoy (lightning always hits decoys first)
Survival-ready
Small-grid and large-grid variants
Cheap but fragile

Planned enhancements:
Updated visuals
Build states Done!
LODs Probably not necessary!
More sizes?

...psst! Major expansion and 2.0 version coming soon!
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3 Oct, 2023 @ 6:17am
Help improve the lightning rods with your vote!
General Space
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Mella 29 Jul @ 12:39am 
With each hit of lightning blasts a charge into batteries so you can build up power in storage maybe
ZEN_2255 3 Oct, 2023 @ 7:00am 
@General Space That's pretty sad...
In this case, you should go to one of the modding forums, perhaps they can help you refine your mod.
Unfortunately, I don't have any examples of such groups. (but I know there are some).
There's nothing else I can help you with =\
Peekofwar 2 Oct, 2023 @ 8:23pm 
Hopefully you'll figure it out some day...
General Space  [author] 2 Oct, 2023 @ 3:03pm 
@Zen, unfortunately, life and career got in the way before I could really finish this, but the plan was to add built-in scripting that would intercept lightning damage and nullify it (or nearly nullify it). I've never was able to figure out how to do the damage interception, though.
ZEN_2255 22 Sep, 2023 @ 10:05am 
and when damaged, requires much more material than the same bait. What is the point of such a device?
ZEN_2255 22 Sep, 2023 @ 8:29am 
Interesting, but the durability is too short. Repairs are expensive.
Peekofwar 9 May, 2022 @ 6:58pm 
@General Space I'd have to play on my SMP server a bit more during thunderstorms and get back to you on that.
General Space  [author] 9 May, 2022 @ 8:01am 
@Skallabjorn, in theory I'm okay with that, but before you proceed I would actually like your insight on a proposed change to this mod that might solve the problem. I'll DM you.

@Lonestar, That would be helpful! I'll DM you as well.

@Peekofwar @ShatteredPumpkin, I haven't had any time to poke my head in here in a while, so I didn't see your comments. Are you still having issues?
Sindobaddo 22 Mar, 2022 @ 3:27pm 
it would be cool if it could generate electricity if hit
Peekofwar 3 Jan, 2022 @ 6:38pm 
I have a lightning rod at my base, and yet I get directly struck by lightning trying to build a plane...? Not even the steel blocks I place down on a landing gear were touched. Just me, the player.