Logic Gates desperately missing a "capacitor/delay" gate.#1553

I’ll start with the pain point, and then suggest an answer or two

As a nerdy shape-miner, I want/need to be able to act upon the shape that is sitting in my filter belt. If my belts are under capacity or have various shapes in them, this is hard-to-impossible. If I’m just under-capacity, I’m stuck sequestering off a shape in the corner and running logic based on that (much more complex than it needs to be). if I have a variety of shapes on a belt, I just can’t do anything.

There’s a lot of weird things that can happen to logic gates if the circuit isn’t at full capacity. A capacitor that holds a signal for several seconds IFF no new signal is passed would solve all that, and still be basic logic. A delayer that passes the signal a second into the future would probably solve that more cleanly for the reader-to-filter functionality.

Alternatively, the ability to drop a filter/reader that somehow reads AND writes the same shape (even if it’s a 2x1 or takes 2 floors) would solve the problem the most seamlessly.

Same feeling here, I also think there should be delay gate to make it accurate.

A capacitor also adds an interesting dimension through timing circuits turning a bool into a (clamped) float. e.g. using belt readers on one level to regulate flow on a different level (for a flow-through stacking train) - this could be even more powerful if the switch could be ‘held’ a little longer with a cap in the circuit!