Often times I find myself wondering... why dont we have a powered converter already? It would be so useful, wouldn't it? It's been suggested since the early days, and yet somehow, we still don't have it! Surely it would find it's way into some neat applications, right? Well, I'm here to talk about it, and hopefully I'll be convincing enough for this element to finally get added into the game.

I've found myself messing around with subframe, and suddenly realizing I want to be able to turn off a subframe machine. Unfortunately... I find myself at a loss on how to do that. This dilemma seems especially prominent to me when working with with CRAY machines (though i'm sure there are other situations where this situation is encountered, too!). As far as I can tell, the only real solution to this is to just push the machine or the solid-spark out of the way with PSTN... but that feels like such a waste of space, considering both the space for the piston, and the space to push the machine into! Wouldn't it be so much easier if we could just toggle the CONV off? It would be so much more compact and less messy than what we have to work with today!

And of course, I wouldn't forget CONV's intended purpose.. converting. Having an actually toggleable converter could potentially lead to a lot of creative saves utilizing that mechanic, and I think it would be especially useful in factory-ish saves. And being able to turn off CONV would make moving it with PSTN much easier aswell (if you ever ended up needing to do that); you wouldn't have to worry about accidently converting the piston/frame itself (aside from using conv's tmp mechanic)!

Overall, I dont really see any downsides to adding this element into the game; I dont think it would be a waste of space or whatever, and the Powered Materials section feels a little small anyways. It just seems like such an obvious choice to add if we already have stuff like powered CLNE and even powered VOID!

In a time where cool electronics are widespead and can rule the FP, this element seems more important than ever. We could certainly live without it, but what's the harm in making our lives a little easier?

Anyways, since I'm talking about CONV here, I might as well list another change I think would be useful for CONV and, if it gets added, PCNV. If the tmp2 value is set to 1, the converter transforms everything EXCEPT it's tmp value into it's ctype. There are a few cases where I think this would be useful, mainly thinking of CONV alloys, but this just feels like a good idea to me in general. After all, this is already implimented with VOID (though it's used with tmp there instead of tmp2), so why not CONV?

Anyways, that's all I have to say for now. Thanks for reading this long thing.

not if it's ctype isn't set to PSCN...

edit: oops a comment appeared above ths one, was replying to deuterium