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The Cable Age Continued

Our best archaeologist team has uncovered an exciting antique technology: the cables! The ancient people seems to use them to remotely power buildings without involving batteries. This shiny miracle is however quite easy to reproduce and they are now a fundamental part of space ship structures, ending the age of manual battery delivery.

Reactors and Capacitors can now power buildings within a distance. Reactors can also charge capacitors and capacitors will try to balance against themselves.

Reactors have a flow rate higher than their power generation speed, meaning they will slowly fill themselves if power generation is above power consumption and they will be drained if vice versa. Capacitors have a flow rate of 12/s.

Reactors have a supply distance relative to their sizes. Capacitors have a supply distance of 8. The ship designer will display an icon on buildings that require power and are in range of any reactor or capacitor.

This mod is inspired by MMCT and even goes further than that. You don't need to add anything to your ship to automate the battery delivery. It becomes a fundamental feature.

Do NOT enable this mod and MMCT simulteniously. You don't need both at the same time.

WARNING: This mod significantly breaks the balance by eliminating the need of manual battery delivery, rendering 90% of the crews useless. Your fleet size is also less restricted to the maximum number of crews you may have. It's recommended to tune down the crew cap in career mode, or you will have access to larger ships much earlier than expected. Existing ship designs can still be loaded, but they are probably not designed with Built-In Cables mod in mind, rendering them less efficient designs.

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Since this module hasn't been updated, I uploaded it for others or the author's reference.

Note that I only modified it to make it compatible with the original version, and did not make it compatible with other mods.