Simple Form of Selling Power on a MC City Build

Buster Bunny · May 2nd 2012

Basically, what I saw people do so far is this:

P1: I gives u powa 4 1 min 4 five cole

One minuit passes but P2 still didn't use the EU making him to waste coal. (PS: Noobs, go to school -_- )

What I do:

SplitterCable SplitterCable :CustomerHouse:

This setup is quite easy and qickly understandable.

Generator: Self Explanitory

First splitter cable: Prevents the flow of EU while the batbox is charged and your client is using the EU.

BatBox: Stores the 40k EU you're selling to him.

Second Splitter: Prevents the flow of EU if your client didn't pay or the batbox got drained.

This will allow you to charge your client for every 40k EU he uses. Neither you nor your client gets ripped off. Feel free to add ideas, bitch around or bump the topic.

Note: best used in City Building servers. If used in PvP, you can get ripped off by a nuke :o

You could do it in ssp but that will make you a HUGE forever alone.

KoRupt_Virus · May 7th 2012

I would like to help, but I can't stand this grammar.

GregoriusT · May 7th 2012

Quote from Buster Bunny

Basically, what I saw people do so far is this:
Basically i saw Noobs doing this:
P1: I gives u powa 4 1 min 4 five cole
Player 1: It gives you Power for 1 Minute for 5 Coal
One minuit passes but P2 still didn't use the EU making him to waste coal. (PS: Noobs, go to school -_- )
One Minute passes but Player 2 still doesn't uses the EU, making him waste Power.
What I do:
What I am doing:
SplitterCable SplitterCable :CustomerHouse:
Energysource -> Splittercable+Wiring -> Energystorage -> Splittercable+Wiring -> Customer
This setup is quite easy and qickly understandable.
This Setup is much better understandable
Generator: Self Explanitory
Energysource: Selfexplaining
First splitter cable: Prevents the flow of EU while the batbox is charged and your client is using the EU.
First Splittercable: Prevents to fill the Batbox, while the Customer consumes his already bought EU out of the Energystorage
BatBox: Stores the 40k EU you're selling to him.
Energystorage: Stores the amount of EU you sell to the Customer
Second Splitter: Prevents the flow of EU if your client didn't pay or the batbox got drained.
Second Splittercable: Prevents to empty the Energystorage if the Customer have not payed.
This will allow you to charge your client for every 40k EU he uses. Neither you nor your client gets ripped off. Feel free to add ideas, bitch around or bump the topic.

Note: best used in City Building servers. If used in PvP, you can get ripped off by a nuke :o

You could do it in ssp but that will make you a HUGE forever alone.

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Good that my CASUC produces enough Energy for me (1840 EU/t) and saves enough Space to build it in a City.

MagusUnion · May 16th 2012

Or... you could just directly trade the fuels by themselves, and let people throw them into their own generators on their own...

Except with Oil/Fuel, as BC 3.x.x is not SMP, and only that for Forestry's Oil/Fuel Can integration...

passinglurker · May 16th 2012

Electrolyzed Water Cells

reusable, cheap, dense, and stackable

Zudguard · May 18th 2012

electrolized water cells are all very well and good, however they have their own issues.

To start there is a 10% power loss. 15000 EUs in, only 13500 EUs out. Also, another issue I find with them is that they only unload their charge when the MFE or MFSU is at 30% or less power. They are more usefull as a buffer for power in my opinion. Not to mention you need to have a full/almost full MFE or MFSU to start charging. (70% or higher for the electrolyzer to start drawing power, charging cells).

Now, if you have a huge power station I guess you could compensate for all this, but If you are buying the power you can only really fill up 30% of any storage unit, making it frustrating for slightly ocd people like me who like having full storage units.

hmmm, the wiki says the cells start charging the storage unit when it is <25%, not 30%. and only charges when the storage unit is 75%, could have sworn that i saw 30 and 70% somewhere. However, if this is the case, this only makes it harder to charge and discharge the cells.

bbqroast · Jun 4th 2012

Quote from MagusUnion

Or... you could just directly trade the fuels by themselves, and let people throw them into their own generators on their own...

Except with Oil/Fuel, as BC 3.x.x is not SMP, and only that for Forestry's Oil/Fuel Can integration...

Most people don't have the guts to run a Eff. 5 CASUC reactor on their land and the start up costs are painful. Much better, once you have built it offer a iron and uranium pay plan. That way you get some of the resources you invested back as well as more fuel for future use. People are generally happier to split with uranium as they rarely have a use for it. The great thing is one uranium gets you what, 10 million EU? More if your breeding (80 million or something silly like that).

Tag360 · Jun 18th 2012

Quote from bbqroast

Most people don't have the guts to run a Eff. 5 CASUC reactor on their land and the start up costs are painful. Much better, once you have built it offer a iron and uranium pay plan. That way you get some of the resources you invested back as well as more fuel for future use. People are generally happier to split with uranium as they rarely have a use for it. The great thing is one uranium gets you what, 10 million EU? More if your breeding (80 million or something silly like that).

Not more if your breeding but if it is has more uranium cells

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