Fridges Bug- a possible fix

[FawkesGaming]

First off, I'm unsure about whether this is the right subforum to post this in. That said, onto the suggestion!

So, I briefly looked into Lua whilst looking at job prospects, before moving onto other programming languages. Now, I've not looked at the game code because I would't know where to start. But having encountered the bug where fridges stay switched on after the power has run out, a thought occurred to me which could serve as a temporary fix until generators are implemented.

The basis of the idea, is a global variable I will call globalPower. This could either be true or false.

When globalPower is true, another variable called fridgePower will also be true. When this is true, items placed inside a fridge will be cooled down and refridgerated. However, when both variables are set to false, that buff is lost. The same would apply for cookers, but I've not encountered one of those which still works.

Hopefully this helps, although I'm personally unsure at how the fridge would know the variable is being applied, as I don't know if it classes as an entity or not.

[FawkesGaming]

Unsure whether a moderator has seen this, so I'll bump just in case! Also, if anyone sees flaws in my logic please point them out!

[uberevan]

I'm not very skilled with programming, so I wouldn't know what to tell you but do we know what the current problem with the programming we have is?

[FawkesGaming]

I've not personally taken a look at the code, but as some fridges still appear to refridgerate after the power has turned off, I would hazard a guess that they somehow haven't been told by the code to turn off.