[1.16+][Suggestion] Exponential power decay for HV cables (and maybe other types too).

[PeterKitsune]

Explain your idea

Basically #3426 but for 1.16+ (since 1.12 is, sadly, dead).

So currently (at least in 1.16 and according to the linked issue also in 1.12), power loss is linear - i.e. every chunk you loose a fixed percentage of the original power. Meaning however many millions of FE you throw down the wire, it will travel a certain number of chunks and then stop.

Realistically, you loose a percentage of the power traveling through that chunk. Meaning it has technically infinite range, although after sufficient distance (dependent on energy transfer rate) you have less than 1 FE, which depending on whether IE uses floor, ceil, or round in its calculations results in either 1 FE/t or 0 FE/t

Mathematical analysis:

Lets say you configured the power loss to be 10% per chunk for ease of calculation (I know the default is 2.5% but 10 is easier to calculate with)
And lets say you are putting 1'000 FE/t through the wires.
I'll assume it uses floor again for simplicity, although the numbers aren't massively changed if it uses ceil or round

• Using the current calculations, you loose 10% of 1'000 FE/t every chunk. So after one chunk, you have 900, after two chunks 800, after three chunks 700, etc., eventually reaching ten chunks = 0 FE/t.
• Using this alternative method, after one chunk you have 900 again, but after two chunks you loose 10% of 900, i.e. 810. After three chunks you have 729, after four chunks 656, five chunks 590, six chunks 531, etc., etc. As you can see, long distance power distribution is now actually plausible.

[PeterKitsune]

also how the heck do I add any labels to this thing?