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This mod appears to break progression now for Laser Antennae and Action Relay :(

Cy, I know people are stupid like that, thats why I would simply ignore'em. :P You can program in safeties though, like checking if a receiver is on the same grid as a transmitter and then turn off the receiver or transmitter until they are no longer on the same grid, showing some kinda message in the block's interface or have it renamed during such time.

Sherbert, its not a big deal anyway. I was actually trying to power remote bases over a distance using pipelines as a way to transport resources in a moon mining operation. I imagine the wireless transmitters here are probably too short range for that anyway and it would probably be illogical based on their power method anyway.

I'd need some kind of laser antenna method of sending power remotely to outposts instead, but ah well.

lol yeah it wouldnt break the game or cause errors with the current code as is. Its more an excuse. Ive gotten lazy and havent done much coding for space engineers. Also I have not asked nor intend to my modeler to make a model for it. So here is what I will do as large grid version has been asked for a while.

I will make the necessary changes to make large grid reciever blocks and will update the description with instructions to create the block itself.

I will not be making a model or block, that will be up to someone else to take the reigns. All they will need to do is make it a battery block with a specific subtypename i will post upon completing the updated code. The code will pick up the block when the 2 mods are loaded together

@Vas
Welcome to dealing with other people. If you tell them not to do something because its known to cause issues they will do the following three things:
1) Completely ignore you
2) Do what you explicitly told them not to
3) Complain and act like its your fault because you didn't physically restrain them to stop them doing the thing you warned them against

In fact, you definitely _can_ dock a small grid with a receiver to a large grid with a transmitter, and it doesn't seem to cause any issues.

Ah. Couldn't you just add a warning to make sure no one tried that? Like "If you do this, it'll burn your energy and cause lag" or some such? Perhaps if there is a transmitter and a receiver on the same grid, disable the transmitter.

Wouldn't the same thing happened if I docked with a receiver on a grid that has a transmitter?

It was designed that way as a safety. the code is capable of handling large/small ships but I initially wanted to prevent people from putting both on the same grid. this would cause a wierd feedback loop

Uh, why is this only for small ships? I was about to build this for a moon base with multiple mining zones around it, but the receiver can't be built, it can only be built on small grids while the transmitter can only be built on large grids, and both cost exactly the same from what it appears.

Okay, thanks. After playing with it a bit more I better understand how it works.

Its underlying mechanic is that its a battery itself, batteries on auto will not pull from other batteries you would need an ingame script to set your other batteries to recharge to pull from it