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[VisSE] [2017] PowerSink
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block
Tags: development
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30 Dec, 2016 @ 9:00pm
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[VisSE] [2017] PowerSink

Description
Hello Engineers

Large Ship Power Sink Drains 1GW
Small Ship Power Sink Drains 100MW

Highly effective Power Sinks to drain power from Grids, it does this silently and tricks the power sources into thinking they are as high priority as defensive systems. It will cripple the enemy IF you can sneak them on their ships or stations. Maybe a good idea to rename them to after you build it.

This has a few uses such as

Attach them to an enemy ship or station to overload its power systems as part of a Raid strategy
Attach them to your own ship or station to get rid of excessive fuel

Or

Use them to drain your friends reactor fuel and have a laugh as he/she tries to figure out wtf happen :)

Technical Data

They work as an interior light that produces no light and requires the above mentioned power to operate, this is to be sneaky and the power use is not listed in the information. If you rename them to Interior Light then unless the enemy visually finds it then could be impossible to identify the problem they are having >=) !!

Enjoy !
Original Model By Shaostoul @ http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=491321455
51 Comments
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kinngrimm 16 Jan @ 12:40pm 
this puts mischief in my mind ... love it =)
i assume it still works, right?
The Erubian Warlord 7 Jul, 2022 @ 11:46pm 
posted it in the workshop discussions here's hoping somebody bites
Visentinel  [author] 7 Jul, 2022 @ 11:23pm 
sure
The Erubian Warlord 7 Jul, 2022 @ 11:22pm 
im not a modder myself but il put a request in the discussions if your not opposed
Visentinel  [author] 7 Jul, 2022 @ 11:20pm 
We can only Set a value, to do what u want needs a script to send commands to the API. Im not a scripter sorry. If someone can make scripts for this mod id be happy to add it and update the mod :).
The Erubian Warlord 7 Jul, 2022 @ 9:00pm 
could you give it a slider that allows you to set the drain speed of a powersink that way we can fine tune it to bring down an installation/station/ship without running into the grid total issue
Visentinel  [author] 5 Apr, 2021 @ 4:19am 
same dynamic applies.
if the grid total power potential is less than the sink it wont drain.
Airomis 4 Apr, 2021 @ 10:11pm 
I was trying to use it to speed up draining power out of a battery I had on a drone ship to test delivery of power
Visentinel  [author] 4 Apr, 2021 @ 3:12pm 
I meant 4x 300mw reactors
Visentinel  [author] 4 Apr, 2021 @ 3:11pm 
Just keep in mind that since this mod was made several years ago grids don't completely shut-down when overloaded.

So the mod won't work as well as it used to, if you have a 300MW reactor and try to use this powersink nothing will happen as there isn't 1gw to drain in the first place and for example refineries will keep working.
However if there's 3x 300mw reactors now this will drain 1000mw and only 200mw will be available on the grid and some things will shut-down such as thrusters barely working or some refineries going off-line.