[Suggestion] Permanent Transformer Upgrades for Machines

    I have always felt that having a removable transformer upgrade was a very neat piece of code, but ultimately more dangerous and cumbersome than it is fun and useful.


    Would it be possible to make the relatively few machines (5 of them if memory serves correct) into separate blocks?



    Firstly, because there is no way to supply any of those 5 machines with higher than 2048 EU/packet, transformer upgrades that stack past 3 are not reasonable.
    Therefore, you would only have to designate 3 sub-blocks for each of the 5 machines.


    Their ID's could even sub-ID's and their textures would not need to change (unless you feel like a slight recolor is necessary).


    p.s. I am not forgetting about the Induction Furnace :Electric Furnace: .
    That machine has an all together different power/work trade off mechanic than any of the other machines.

    its possible to pass 2048 in 32 packets with 13 transformators, glass fiber loss will allow to mount no less then 38 machines on such power grid.


    there is no reason to remove every "too complex for noob who can't read manual" thing from game.

    If I'm not wrong, upgrades are stored in NBT tags (slots 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively).
    So maybe just add one machine is necessary? Like the upgrader? (Put transformer upgrade and a macerator, it gets added to the NBT of the macerator)


    Oh and the code that prevents NBT data loss has to be added, I know for one if you use NBTedit on a recycler in a chest to place transformer upgrades, it will be removed.

    Only suggesting you could copypasta the 5 machines that are there (with a different max input value) and add a crafting recipe for them.

    The crafting recipe could be as simple as combining it with an appropriate transformer (which would make it more expensive than the upgrade card, but worth the materials)


    The other upgrades really don't have much effect on a machine if they are removed when the machine is, so they are fine to remain how they are.
    I don't mean to demand you guys write a bunch of extra code to keep the nbt data of machines as items. (unless you were planning to do that anyway, which would be totally awesome!)


    I am not saying this couldn't easily be done in a mod, but most mod-makers have a habit of over-embellishing and starting to do weird unnecessary things to set themselves apart from the base IC2 (see GregTech :P )


    That would potentially waste 5 meta-ID spaces, I think now IC2 has maxed out 2 or 3 ID spaces for machines, adding another 5 machines would take up another 1 ID.


    As for balance, it would not matter much, as with vanilla IC2 there's no balance with upgrades anyway - you can throw up to 64 upgrades of each type (which is plenty) in a machine and still have a slot left over.


    However, I think using NBT to "pre-upgrade" the machines is better, as it saves (meta)-IDs.