Lowering the drill's effective against machines

    Okay, I'm just a little upset right now.
    Situation was like this:
    I've been re-building my house, aka re-arranging the walls. While mining the old walls off, I accidently hit my MFSU, which broke. But, i've just klicked it once by accident. I mean, I didn't mean to break it. (Been on a smp server, so stop get tmi and cheat it back, lol.) After testing in SSP, I can confirm that breaking it takes roughly half a second.


    My actual point is, what do you have to build a case out of reinforced iron, advanced alloy and even carbon plates when you get something you can break twice as fast as a cobblestone? I mean, for physics sake, a MFSU (and all other (at least) advanced machines) should be mineable as fast as the machines in IC1 with a drill (which means to be way slower). I mean, I didn't need to fear to break machines in IC1 by accident, since it took like 5 seconds to mine them (with a ddrill)... but now.... yah, there goes my MFSU, and I won't get it back "'cause its my own fault".

    Quote from Nerox

    Okay, I'm just a little upset right now.
    Situation was like this:
    I've been re-building my house, aka re-arranging the walls. While mining the old walls off, I accidently hit my MFSU, which broke. But, i've just klicked it once by accident. I mean, I didn't mean to break it. (Been on a smp server, so stop get tmi and cheat it back, lol.) After testing in SSP, I can confirm that breaking it takes roughly half a second.


    My actual point is, what do you have to build a case out of reinforced iron, advanced alloy and even carbon plates when you get something you can break twice as fast as a cobblestone? I mean, for physics sake, a MFSU (and all other (at least) advanced machines) should be mineable as fast as the machines in IC1 with a drill (which means to be way slower). I mean, I didn't need to fear to break machines in IC1 by accident, since it took like 5 seconds to mine them (with a ddrill)... but now.... yah, there goes my MFSU, and I won't get it back "'cause its my own fault".


    Sad part is since the Drill is considered a Pickaxe type tool I don't think its really possible without negating/drastically slowing the effectiveness of all Pickaxes vs the machine.


    But I do agree, I've done this alot..

    Quote from Alblaka

    Still remember the convo ending with "No, stop bugging me, cables transmitting energy are totally not possible! Use the batterys."

    I myself see no problem in drastically lowering the effective against them, cause nobody would ever mine a machine with a pickaxe type, when wrenches take them off instantly, and return the actualy machine, and not just a machine block.

    Quote from Nerox

    I myself see no problem in drastically lowering the effective against them, cause nobody would ever mine a machine with a pickaxe type, when wrenches take them off instantly, and return the actualy machine, and not just a machine block.


    Yea point taken, I get my mods mixed sometimes and forget that this mod's machines are taken with a wrench.


    I support weaker pickaxes vs Machines.

    Quote from Alblaka

    Still remember the convo ending with "No, stop bugging me, cables transmitting energy are totally not possible! Use the batterys."

    I've not noticed it in IC2 yet. Thank god. Now I'm scared!Machines should definitely be more resistant to the pickaxe class.


    Though did once shoot down a batbox in my house with a stray mining laser shot. Oops. :D Was removing a nearby hill.