[Math, I'm bad at it] Another Reinforced Stone v. Obsidian thread

herp a derp why would I build a three layer thick reinforced stone reactor chamber. that's dumb.

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My version is 1.64.

Water's BR: 30
Reinforced Stone BR: 150
Obsidian BR: 60

Assuming one builds with a 4x4 footprint of coolant water.

Three layers of Obsidian:
60*3=180 Blast Resistance approximately.

So
(7^3)-(4^3)= a little over four stacks of mat'l.
343-64 = 279 units = 4.359 stacks

279 RS = 279 Stone + 35 RIron + 35 Copper + 35 Tin = 348 Items + Crafting time & EU
279 Obs = 279 Lava Sources + 36 Buckets (108 ingots, reused) = 7.75 Trips to the nether or 27 minutes solid of diamond drill.

RStone is inherently much more expensive and it's not even useful.

With obsidian so cheap, reinforced stone is only useful in confined spaces, but why build a reactor in confined spaces?

Raising the reinforced blast resistance to 250 or lowering Obsidian to 40 would solve this problem entirely.

Just sayin'. I know people have raised this issue before but I didn't find a proper analysis on it.

-Just another AverageJoe

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Disregard thread please.

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What version specifically? Again let me state that I'm using 1.64. I don't use IC2 addons.
How much was it lowered? Is it significant enough to make reinforced stone useful?

This is not a suggestion, it is an error report. That means this board is the correct board.

It's
bad enough that the uranium cells, cores and chambers are left over
after an explosion, but the designed material being outperformed by
something that is intended to be substandard is just...wow.

edit: The version history has no indication that it was changed.
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=4702

BTW just to poke at it more, this mod has one of the spottiest wiki pages.
Crafting recipes and vital information is missing everywhere.

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