[SYR] Metallic Batteries
Adds batteries made of different metals with different stats.
Steel battery
The vanilla battery, costs a bit more steel but only one component. Very cheap and effective.
Silver battery
Improved version all around. Cheap and efficient, your go-to battery for the mid-game.
Golden battery
Very high efficiency, medium capacity. Expensive, but doesn’t waste energy. Does not short-circuit in rain.
Plasteel battery
Medium efficiency, very high capacity. Expensive, but allows saving a lot of energy in a tiny space. Does not short-circuit in rain.
Uranium battery
High efficiency, high capacity. Expensive, grants both advantages of gold and plasteel batteries, albeit not as good as either in their respective areas. Does not short-circuit in rain.
Advanced battery
Very high efficiency, very high capacity. Very expensive, ultimate battery. Does not short-circuit in rain and does never break down.
Disclaimer: Before you yell "imbalanced", I calculated most of the stats so they get increasingly efficient in terms of effectiveness to cost, so they are balanced to each other. (See table below).
Efficiency is an overrated stat. Lets take solar panels as examples and imagine a 12 hour day (Rimworld generally has longer days).
With 100% efficiency batteries you need to produce 2x as much power as you need during the day so you don’t run out at night. With 50% efficiency batteries you need to produce 3x as much power. So when upgrading from 50% to 100% efficiency you can only lose 33% of your power supply.
But because days are longer than 12 hours the impact of battery efficiency is even lower. Watermill, wooden and chemfuel generator, and the old trusty geothermal reactor, which provide power all the time make them even less impactful.
Keep that in mind.
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