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Wireless Transmittable Power#8386

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When I learned about rust including electricity to the game, as well as a way to transmit signals, I was excited telling myself “This should totally behave like it does in the real world!” which to my disapointment, turned out I could not use the antennas and broadcasters for wireless power transfer.

In the world of rust, lugging around batteries from your power stations to your base can be a chore and dangerous activity, and moreso from the standpoint of a solo player. This behavior is a necessity for players that live and work in caves since there is no adequate power source besides fuel to be used there, nor can power extenders reach the insides.

I propose that Radio Antennas transmit additional power relative to the amount thats applied to the particular frequency. To put more specifically, in the real world it is possible to send an electrical charge wirelessly by directing the electro-magnetic field to a remote object which supplies a charge to it without the aid of wires or batteries. You can read more about it on the wiki link. With this feature, players can power their secret bases from isolated and remote locations ideal for producing power, or start their own power companies distributing power to players who pay them some resource.

The gist behind it is that the stronger the electromagnetic field, or in rusts case, the stronger the signal input, the stronger the output signal. For example, lets say we have a radio frequency thats being broadcasted on channel 55 with 150 power. Then suppose we have an antenna thats being powered by only a generator thats listening in and can pick up maybe 33% of that additional power. This in addition to the rules established for the antenna, puts its total power out for the antenna at 89.

In terms of balancing, the equation of power available for a receiver to use off a given channel would be simply the Channels Total Power/Receiver count * efficiency of transfer, where the efficiency of transfer is the ratio of how efficient the receiver is at receiving the additional power. This way if players are mooching off your signal, everyone will have less power to use, and prevents abusing the loop to produce infinite power sources.

4 years ago