Confirmed in game. The radiator's thermal-ammo and hold signals both
arrive, VentAllowed goes false, and the radiator idles with its manual
switch still on -- heat banked for the launchers instead of vented.
The self-test probes did their job: ThresholdToggle was fine, and a
mod-defined category carries a value perfectly well. The EMP probe was
simply a bad probe -- it read thermal_load_dissipation, which an idled
radiator broadcasts as zero, so it was correctly reporting a real zero.
Routing in v1.3.0 was the actual cure.
Remove the probes and the diagnostic indicators. The repointed power
indicator is the one cue a player needs: it now shows on a radiator the
mod has idled.
Add test_override_values_name_real_components, which catches an Overrides
value naming a component that does not exist -- a fourth way to produce a
mod that loads clean and does nothing, and one this very commit
introduced while stripping the scaffolding.
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Radiators and Thermal Canister Missile launchers pull from the same heat
pool with identical NetworkResourceOutput settings, and priorities.rules
defines no ordering for heat. A constantly-running radiator therefore
spends missile ammunition to make steam.
Gate radiator dissipation on three network signals instead of the raw
PowerToggle: a 98%/94% hysteresis band on the thermal battery, whether
any launcher is actually set to thermal ammo, and an override driven by
the engine's own OverflowHeatStorage as a safety net.
Storage fullness causes no damage on its own -- only overflow does, and
only above 350 status per tile -- so the band sits high deliberately to
keep the network full as a missile reserve.
Signal polarity is "hold", not "vent", so any ship missing a broadcaster
falls back to vanilla behaviour.
Includes an offline validation suite that resolves every patch target,
component reference and component Type against the installed game data,
since all three otherwise fail only as a crash on game load.
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