mt-mods / mt-mods/technic

Digiline channels meta bloat

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Cleanup Enhancement
Dominant language
Lua
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Description

Most machines never get used with digilines, yet they get a channel assigned with their coordinates.
Does anyone ever use this predefined channel in their code?

Wouldn't it be less bloat if a non-unique and short channel was preset?

Like hb, mb, lb for HV, MV and LV battery boxes. Or just plain 'bb' for all tiers.
'ss' for switching stations, 'ff' force fields and so on.


"leave it empty (remove generator and just empty) and allow actually using empty channel just like many other digiline devices do."

Above done for battery boxes, do the same for rest:

  • Battery box
  • Switching station (formspec is good, remove channel generator)
  • Power monitor (formspec is good, remove channel generator)
  • Nuclear reactor core
    • TBD: Remove "enable digiline" checkbox from formspec and keep digiline always enabled
  • Tool workshop
  • ?

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the digiline channel generators and formspecs for the remaining Tool Workshop and nuclear reactor work, then compare them with the completed battery box, switching station, power monitor, and reactor changes. Done means the remaining channel generators are removed and the reactor's digiline-enable checkbox decision is implemented.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
game-dev
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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