Right, so as much as I love sitting here messing with the planner trying to achieve an extra 1 effective EU/t, and that there's magic to discovering things manually, I'm just a smidgen curious as to the possible configurations. So, I'm gonna write a program to do it for me. Heck, I'll even do it in java just for kicks. Heck, I might even give out the source code and post it here when I'm done or have a working prototype. Heck, I might even start right now... What I'd like to know, is A. Has it been done, and B. Does anyone care? See you in a few days.
Oh it's on, Nuclear Engineering, it's on.
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Given each spot in the reactor may contain:
[Empty (or empty like),Ice,FullWaterBucket,lavabucket,cooling cell,hull plating,IHD,uranium,inactive isotopes (1heat/sec),active isotopes(uranium pulses)]
That's 10 possibilities per slot. There are 7 possible configurations of reactor and cooling options/heating options around.
Even just enumerating this I see -far- too many possibilities to attack by brute force. Even smarter brute force would still run in to far too many possibilities.
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Well just checking which combinations work isnt gonna work not even with a super computer. There like 8^54 combinations for a 6 chamber reactor. Thats about 5,85*10^48 diferent configurations. How big is that? Well you can only have 1,84*10^19 RAM on a 64 bit system (ok in reality it will be less but in theory it should be possible).
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Sounds awesome/interesting, I'll be interested in seeing what you get back.
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There's only a few uranium setups (like 2 2-pair uranium or 4 uranium in a row etc.) so a program that optimises HD and cooling cell design would be epic through that will also take away the fun of puzzling :).
Also if you want a even better design the program should also look at the heat distribution. Through this wont make much of a diference (one of my reactors got improved from 24,75 cycles to near 25 cycles) its still a improvement
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There's only a few uranium setups (like 2 2-pair uranium or 4 uranium in a row etc.) so a program that optimises HD and cooling cell design would be epic through that will also take away the fun of puzzling :).
Also if you want a even better design the program should also look at the heat distribution. Through this wont make much of a diference (one of my reactors got improved from 24,75 cycles to near 25 cycles) its still a improvement
Hah, i see you upgraded it even more, nice one. But effective EU/t actually dropped, isn't that worse ?
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It could be because it rounds numbers or something i dunno. But the diference between 24,94 and 25 is noticable. Its the diference between a crater and a intact reactor after 25 cycles. Not that anyone will actualy run 25 cycles in a row with instant refuel through. Takes almost 70 hours to run 25 cycles. Before this reactor blows up some update prolly fucked up your world.
