GregTechCE
[Suggestion] Add Process Time Info to Large Boilers
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, the Large Boilers (all 4 tiers) do not display any information about how long their process time is for fuel. JEI shows some information, but only for fluids, not solid fuels. This feels especially important, since they have a modifiable throttle setting, but it is hard to tune well since you do not know how long your fuel will last relative to your steam production.
Describe the solution you'd like I would like to have either a display in TOP or in the Container Screen showing the current processing time, i.e. 0s/10s or something, and maybe "Creating 400mb/t of Steam." I think it would be interesting to also include a maximum steam/tick for your set throttle speed.
Additional context If this suggestion gets approved, I would be more than willing to create the PR for this. However, it should be discussed if we feel it would be better to display this in TOP or in the Screen.
Also wanted to add that the "semi fluid fuels" page (the only processing page shown for turbines when "U" is pressed on the controller block) displays fluids as creating EU, despite the boilers creating steam.
because all recipe maps operate on EU, including semi fluid fuels. It would be a huge headache to change that.
Alright, that last part probably should not be included in the scope of this issue/PR then.
Thank you for this suggestion. I can understand where you are going with your request and I accept that it will be useful to have this information available.
And it should be possible to provide information regarding how long will consumed fuel burn and how much is left. And there is still space in controller to which it can be added. So this part is accepted.
Regarding TOP I don't think it will be useful addition as you will still need to look at Controller block. Sure it would be cool to know "all" information about Boiler when looking at any block of it. But that is out of scope. And same goes for Semi Fluid Fuels showing steam.
For TOP showing the time remaining, would this be something that would be considered for singleblock machines? I am wondering if the specified TOP mentioned in the issue could be expanded beyond the multiblock machines, even though it is only semi-relevant to the issue.
