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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v1.1.0 loaded cleanly and still did nothing, so the NetworkValue rewrite
was not the whole story. Rather than keep guessing at which link in the
chain is dead, add indicator icons bound to the internal signals.
An indicator draws while its toggle is off, so one glance at a radiator
now separates the cases that were previously indistinguishable:
wrench absent -> the AddBase never merged; nothing in the mod runs
thermal missile -> no thermal-ammo signal arriving
resource -> no hold signal arriving from a battery
Tests check that every added indicator binds to a component that exists
and to a sprite that exists in the indicators atlas.
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v1.0.0 loaded cleanly and did nothing in game. Every vanilla use of
NetworkToggle and NetworkToggleReceiver -- all three of them -- sets
IncludeInPhysical = false. They are blueprint stat-display plumbing and
carry no signal on a real ship, so the receivers always read off, the
vent gate stayed open, and radiators behaved exactly as in vanilla.
Broadcast 1/0 through NetworkValue and threshold it back into a toggle
on the receiving side. That is what the thermal amplification pump uses
to drive physical behaviour, and vanilla never sets IncludeInPhysical on
it anywhere.
Also repoint the radiator's power indicator at the gate, so an auto-idled
radiator is visibly idle instead of looking identical to a working one.
Tests grow a guard against the blueprint-only types, plus a check that
re-verifies that premise against the installed game data so the guard
cannot go stale, and a name-collision check against vanilla components.
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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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