Regarding the efficiency of Glass Fibre cables

manatails · Sep 2nd 2016

Having been playing IC2 without any other mods installed, I find using glass fibre cables too inefficient.
In my humble opinion giving only one glass fibre per 2 energium and a silver dust is too expensive. Having such low energy loss, glass fibre looks like it is meant for long distance travels but all those good attributes are nullified by its atrocious recipe. What would be the point of having 0.025 loss per block when it is even difficult to craft a few tens of them?

I think the game will be much more interesting if crafting glass fibre gave 16 cables like it used to be in the past. I suggest a change.

Aroma1997 · Sep 2nd 2016

Any suggestions on a better recipe?

manatails · Sep 2nd 2016

Quote from Aroma1997

Any suggestions on a better recipe?

Um, as I said, keeping the same recipe but yielding 16 cables instead of 1. So that we can have the fun of centrifuging gold and producing energium and getting a reasonable amount of glass fibre.

Chocohead · Sep 2nd 2016

They used to craft 16 years ago. Like a lot of years ago. The newer old recipe used to be 4 for a diamond, 2 redstone and 6 glass or 6 for the same but with silver ingots instead of redstone.

Reoseah · Sep 3rd 2016

Maybe making glassfibre from nether quartz instead of glass?

In terms of plot, quartz glass is actually used for similar things IRL.

From point of balance, Nether Quartz is not used in IC2 and why not feel such gaps instead of adding new resources (e.g. silver)? But as silver is already added and you cannot remove it, use it in other things. For example, Induction Furnace and UU-matter machinery.

Speiger · Sep 3rd 2016

well what about this: since 1.10.2 (aroma told me this) StackSize crafting is possible. So why dont you make it so that a recipe takes 1 energydust & 16x of all other components. With that you would ensure the usefullnes of the Cable but still making it not to cheap.

Edit: Stacksize crafting = 1 slot uses more then 1 Item. So you can say: glassfiber cable uses 6x 16 glass 1 Energium Dust & 2x 16 silver dust

Liquidsunlight · Sep 3rd 2016

I do agree with the original request - crafting glass fiber cables feels way to expensive - so I kind of avoid using them. I think if the recipe would yield more cable (e.g. 16) it would feel more alright.

Also having two energium dust is much. Maybe one could be replaced with quartz or obsidian dust or lapis lazuli dust.

So my suggestion is:
Replace one energium dust with one obsidian dust.
Recipe should yield 8 cable.

Aroma1997 · Sep 3rd 2016

Using obsidian dust instead of energium dust makes it way too cheap.

psusi · Sep 4th 2016

The only time I have ever used them is when I had more than 2048 eu/t generating capacity ( from 9 EU reactors and a bunch of semifluid ) and wanted to combine it all into a single feed that could simultaneously recharge multiple MFSUs powering my teleporter. I like the recipe but agree that it should yield more. On the other hand, why make a long run of cable that you have to keep chunk loaded when you can just charge up a lapotron charging crystal, teleport, and fill up your MFSU.

manatails · Sep 5th 2016

Any updates on this?

Aroma1997 · Sep 7th 2016

The recipe will yield more in the next build.

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