Catalytic Preheater (Description is incorrect/swapped)

[Sheakiru]

Currently reads
"each 'converter' increases the 'preheater's' speed boost"
and now that i have enough resources to test it its true that
"Each Preheater increases the converter's speed boost"

[Ziltoid]

Hmm, both are actually true. The more machines a pre-heater "touches", the more of a bonus it applies to the machines. At the same time, the more pre-heaters touch a machine, the greater the speed boost on that machine will be.

As with everything else, it will be a trade-off and there will be some tipping point where more pre-heaters means sacrificing converters which lowers the bonus and makes the end result less efficient than fewer pre-heaters with more converters.

[Sheakiru]

while its true that the more converters effected the more an overall boost you receive, however the ways its worded makes it sound like the preheater itself is BEING boosted by the converters... for awhile i even had dummy converters next to my preheaters to get the "full effect" xD

[AiponGkooja]

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

while its true that the more converters effected the more an overall boost you receive, however the ways its worded makes it sound like the preheater itself is BEING boosted by the converters... for awhile i even had dummy converters next to my preheaters to get the "full effect" xD

That is how it works, yes. You can tell by looking at the preheater. Place one down, power it, then slowly place converters around it, it heats up more for each converter near it. So having dummy converters does speed them up, as said. They give the biggest boost to everything around them when surrounded by 8 converters. But at the same time, placing more of them around a single converter does stack the speed boost on that converter as well.

[motorbyclist]

if you actually build and test it you will find that the description is correct