Suggestion: EMP!!!

One, the smilies are broken.

Two, reminds me of the REP (Redstone Electric Pulse) thing from Chicken Bones Wireless Redstone mod. Well, I could +1 this, but the EMP pulses ought to have one heck of timeout between uses so it can be used when there are no ops on the server.

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One, the smilies are broken.

Two, reminds me of the REP (Redstone Electric Pulse) thing from Chicken Bones Wireless Redstone mod. Well, I could +1 this, but the EMP pulses ought to have one heck of timeout between uses so it can be used when there are no ops on the server.

Agreed, but I anticipate any type of EMP weaponry to be 'energy whores' in their own right anyway to cause the level of infrastructure damage he's requesting. But I really like the idea, and it would go well to counteract things like the Forcefield add-on and such in very late game SMP...

I'd estimate that one EMP burst would have the EU consumption around or over that of the Teleporter considering the technology required and the need to nerf it quite quickly.

EMP fries electronics disabling them temporarily or forever... But how do we determine which? Plus the circuitry in the emmitters need to be shielded so I'm suggesting that the circuits have to be covered in rubber or some other simmilar shielding device.

Rubber won't EMP shield. Blocks of metal ingots used as building materials would. CF foam -might-, ReStone and ReGlass should.

The EMP would propagate like a nuke explosion, but only effecting electronic gear; it would 'fry' wires as if over-volted and cause similar effects for machines (pop).

I would think that it just fries wires, that way it's a REALLY annoying piece of tech that could be quite OP but doesn't hurt precious advanced machines that took a long time to craft.

Also: I believe that fiberglass wire (in the real world as well) is naturally shielded from EMP allowing for the inevitable (but horrendously expensive) counter

In the real world electric power isn't transmitted over fiberglass (only data and light-energy which might be converted to other forms of energy). I've seen glass fiber cables as rare-material coated vacuum tube wires, which somehow allows them to conduct very well while also naturally insulating them quite well. Such a conductor would naturally be susceptible to an EMP. The whole point is that there's a strong shift in magnetic flux which induces currents in wires/etc which causes overloads that fry systems.

nice i dea but not very fun

when a block has been temporarily been disabled then there should be a particle effect so that you know when it has been disabled. Brill Idea!