[1.5.1/1.5.2] Modular Forcefield System v2 Classic 2.3.0.1.15

Can you add more ways to generate force energy?

Firstly, I want to say I am still using the version for MC 1.46 in the FtB Ultimate Pack, so this may no be relevant, but if you haven't made any changes besides updating it to work with MC 1.51, then this may still be relevant.
Since the compact focicium cell allows the generation of forcicium from raw energy, it should be possible to automate power-based FE production with any automation mod.
The problem here appears to be that no automation capable mods (Applied Energistics, RedPower, BuildCraft, GregTech, etc.) can access the cell charge slot from any side, all sides appear to connect to the forcicium slot.
If that were changed by, for instance putting the bottom side connected to the cell slot, automation would become possible.
If this has already been updated, carry on, but if not, it seems like the least code-intensive way of allowing power automation. That or allowing reverse-mode operation for the Converter like there is for transformers.
Any kind of automation would be better than doing it manually.

Also, what the heck does the button in the upper right corner on the extractor do? I can't find any documentation on it.

is there any chance that there could be added a spherical containment force field ? i really don't like the normal cube. I think its a bit to boring.

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There are several projector modules available, including walls, spheres, and cubes.

I think you misunderstand my question. I want a flying sphere

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Searge and I are looking into this already.

Can there be sort of a renewable way of generating force energy?

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Again, we are looking into this. We are considering several ways to handle force energy generation that doesn't involve Monazit Ore/Forcicium. However, we also want to make Monazit/Forcicium the preferred/least expensive method for maintaining a forcefield. It's going to take a fair bit of balancing and planning before we come to a decision as to what we'll use.

But Minalien, what about renewable way of generating force energy?

I don't know about a neutron reflector, but it might be cool to breed forcicium into a better form using a reactor.

Can you please help. I try and install your mod, but I get this error

http://pastebin.com/Aix6cLyb

Thanks in advance

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Can you please help. I try and install your mod, but I get this error

http://pastebin.com/Aix6cLyb

Thanks in advance

I don't think this error has anything to do with MFFS.

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I don't think this error has anything to do with MFFS.

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I don't think this error has anything to do with MFFS.

That is what I thought, but the error only occurs with both chicken core and MFFS together. It probably has to have something to do with editing similar base files. I hope something can be resolved so that the two mods are compatible again

Or an obsolete API within MFFS that just needs to be changed to what's current in NEI

I tried to run a multiplayer server that had several large force fields throughout the map. The entire server would freeze when loading a field. The algorithm seemed to scale very poorly with the total number of fields server_wide. That is, if there was just 1 medium sized field, the server ran ok. 2 or 3, little hitches when loading the areas with the field. By the time there were 5 total fields, including 3 large ones, performance was abysmal - 10 second server freeze when loading a field, including severe networking consequences.

By the way, the actual server hardware is the best money can buy. 2600k overclocked to 4.6 ghz, 7 gigs of ram allocated to this particular server, gigabit upstream, etc. Normally, tick times were about 3-7 milliseconds per tick unless someone tried to load chunks that had a force field.

I'm uncertain if the freeze was of the thread handling networking or the main thread, but I can provide you the files if you need them.

Fact is, it's not your code, and it may be too difficult to fix code you didn't write. I've been hoping the rewrite for version 3 fixes this issue. However, Calclavia does not have a track record of a developer who creates polished finished products.

sanity check request. is the defense stations npc kill mode not working for anyone else?

thought maybe it was a cross mod issue until i ran it by itself to no avail, so either i broke something or it really isn't working. as simply asking is a lot faster than creating yet more instances.. well here we are.