[Suggestion][Wiring] Colored machines

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    Need? 9

    1. Yes. (4) 44%
    2. No. (3) 33%
    3. Lot of work, little benefit. (2) 22%
    4. Dont care. (0) 0%

    Effect - same as with cables. (connects appears only between same colored and non-colored ones machines and cables)


    It may be needed mostly to the EU storage and transformation machines, as soon as it will allow to make a more compact energy junctions, especialy when needed a lot of transformation.


    So machines for that:
    BatBox, MFE, MFSU, LVT, MVT, HVT.


    I got some cases where it may be realy usefull (mostly it was a modifications of existent complicated networks). But yes, its pretty rare.


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    Why all threads in a goddamn Suggestion Section must have a [suggestion] tag? Doesnt that a little stupid?
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    Quote from garkin

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    Why all threads in a goddamn Suggestion Section must have a [suggestion] tag? Doesnt that a little stupid?
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    To weed out the idiots geniuses that don't read the stickies.

    ...What? There's no pineapples here.


    GENERATION Pineapple: The first pineapple you see, copy it into your sig on any forum and add sqrt(-1) to the generation. Pineapple experiment.

    Coloring processors may be helpful to, just like additional element of decoration, not only wiring. If it will be textured closely to concrete coloring.


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    Quote from raa1337

    To weed out the idiots geniuses that don't read the stickies.


    Sorry, this not helps. This situation still looks stupid as hell. Its recomended in sticked section help, and it used in 99% of threads.
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    You might get it if you look at what happens with older threads.


    Oh and the idea has a basic problem. It will totally inflate the amount of metadata of most machines. Since they are all inside one block this would mean that you would have over 100 different blocks stuffed into one ID. Technically this should be possible, if the metadata isn't used for something different.

    Quote from Bluehorazon


    Oh and the idea has a basic problem. It will totally inflate the amount of metadata of most machines. Since they are all inside one block this would mean that you would have over 100 different blocks stuffed into one ID. Technically this should be possible, if the metadata isn't used for something different.

    Nuclear reactor stores a bunch of data with all its invenory and temperature. Also induction furnace gots temperature and 2 additional slots, and any other processor inner battery, etc. Can we use this same way here to? We need only one more byte to store.
    How cables store it? In metadata?


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    You might get it if you look at what happens with older threads.


    Quote from FenixR

    The suggestion tag its because whenever a thread gets too old, its moved into the archive, and that particular place dont have specific subforums like this. So the initial tag is to give it order when threads are moved to the archive.

    Oh, now it looks more motivated, thanks. But still tastes bad. :P
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    Quote from garkin

    Nuclear reactor stores a bunch of data with all its invenory and temperature. Also induction furnace gots temperature and 2 additional slots, and any other processor inner battery, etc. Can we use this same way here to? We need only one more byte to store.
    How cables store it? In metadata?


    Tile-Entities vs. Meta-Data. Normally such things are possible, the problem is that it may increase the amount of data that is processed. I'm not entirely sure how this would be managed. But machines have a tile-entity already attached for processing items etc. (stored EU, stored Items etc.) and are using some MetaData. Now it should be possible to do it like eloraam and stuff everything into one block. But I guess Alblaka won't do this.

    Quote from SpwnX

    Instead of coloring machines, adding a colored dye to any of its upgrade slots which makes it accept only that color of cable connecting to it?

    Perfect. No retexturing needed then. Does transformers and batboxes have upgrade slots?

    Quote from FenixR

    How about just make machine to accept EU from Non-colored cables or something?


    I still dont see a practical use to coloring machines.

    It's useful if you want to prevent cables, in tight spaces, from interacting with Mass Fabricators, or MFSU's connected to a teleporter.


    I guess you could also want it if you want to add a TON of energy storage units next to a TON of cable without them interacting... But I can only think of the above two reasons why you would want to do that.

    ...What? There's no pineapples here.


    GENERATION Pineapple: The first pineapple you see, copy it into your sig on any forum and add sqrt(-1) to the generation. Pineapple experiment.

    Another one easy way: do 2-3 of cable colors prevent interaction with machines at all. Example - red and orange. So it can go closely to it with out explode danger. This is not the same as soon as it do not allow to break unwanted connection between two different machines, but close replace.


    Or add new one dye with mixed coloring, like yellow/black pattern: