Most mods broken by IsPowerAvailable obsoletion

Laura K ●

Hello, Jim!

Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue. After a talk internally, we are not aware of any changes with IsPowerAvailable. Is this related to the .sbc file? Would you please elaborate on your issue and would love to see some examples to better understand the issue you are facing :) I hope this is okay!

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Jim O. ●

Hi Laura,

Thanks for getting back to me. Between Warfare 1 and Heavy Industry updates, something has changed internally regarding a commonly used API in many mods to detect if power is available.

<code>//good = resourceSink.IsPowerAvailable(ElectricityId, required_amt); is obsolete
// vv I had to add this manually to fix it
good = resourceSink.SuppliedRatioByType(ElectricityId) == 1;</code>

I manually edited other people's mods to fix this at first, but to play online with others, I had to make these changes public. Your community very quickly DMCA'd my efforts despite me not claiming ANY of the rights to the mod, giving full rights to the original author, listing the author's name, and stating exactly what was changed by me for the sole purpose of using it again. Lovely experience, that was. I realize the Steam Workshop says no reupload, but there's plenty of reuploads on there that have been there a lot longer - I only had action taken against me because I left on a bad note and somebody from the Discord chat actively searched me out on Steam to DMCA.

You can see this problem in Dummy08's Nanobot Build and Repair System, and Mexpex's MWI - Weapon Collection 2 (9), and DarkStar's DefenseShields (but this last one has probably been updated already as it no longer works in Warfare). Mexpex's guns never get power so they never make ammunition. Dummy08's nanobots never get power so they don't work.

Thanks,

Jim

Hi Laura,

Thanks for getting back to me. Between Warfare 1 and Heavy Industry updates, something has changed internally regarding a commonly used API in many mods to detect if power is available.

<code>//good = resourceSink.IsPowerAvailable(ElectricityId, required_amt); is obsolete
// vv I had to add this manually to fix it
good = resourceSink.SuppliedRatioByType(ElectricityId) == 1;</code>

I manually edited other people's mods to fix this at first, but to play online with others, I had to make these changes public. Your community very quickly DMCA'd my efforts despite me not claiming ANY of the rights to the mod, giving full rights to the original author, listing the author's name, and stating exactly what was changed by me for the sole purpose of using it again. Lovely experience, that was. I realize the Steam Workshop says no reupload, but there's plenty of reuploads on there that have been there a lot longer - I only had action taken against me because I left on a bad note and somebody from the Discord chat actively searched me out on Steam to DMCA.

You can see this problem in Dummy08's Nanobot Build and Repair System, and Mexpex's MWI - Weapon Collection 2 (9), and DarkStar's DefenseShields (but this last one has probably been updated already as it no longer works in Warfare). Mexpex's guns never get power so they never make ammunition. Dummy08's nanobots never get power so they don't work.

Thanks,

Jim

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Laura K ●

Hello, Jim!

Thank you very much for the explanation and example :) I have reported this internally.

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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