Power Transfer Blocks

[Skwidz]

Old news, the ability to use docked reactors has been disabled. Transferring power between docked entities can be useful especially with modular ships. Why not make a block that sends power to another identical block on a different entity set on a specific channel like wireless blocks? That way, power transfer might be easier than looking up a chain of entities and make transfer bidirectional.

 

[Dire Venom]

True, you'd just have to watch out for exploits. E.g having reactos docked or even free floating 1km behind the ship sending it power.

 

[jayman38]

It would need to be a connected block (just send power through the dock), and there would need to be a connected series of conduits to the central power system (from the docker to the docked entity's reactor and from the dock to the host entity's reactor). That would eliminate many exploits by making the connection (dock + conduit) vulnerable to damage.