Posts by imer

  • Godcraft's Open Video to the IndustrialCraft Development Team!

    Quote from Two

    You for example mentioned a good point, that bying a GITHub space costs 100$ a year, so who is going to pay that? Are there free/cheaper alternatives?

    Public repos on github are free, private ones do cost something, i believe you get/got 5 private repos for 5$ a month (i have 2 unused private repos left, so no problem with using those, in case i'm trustworthy ;) )
    The 100$ is for companies (i don't even know the befit of having a company account)

  • Godcraft's Open Video to the IndustrialCraft Development Team!

    First off you have to keep in mind that IC - even IC² - is relatively old compared to newer (i am so funny!) mods that were created in the past months (or half year whatever).
    IC² already had that done for quite some time and at that time it was quite the awesome mod, because you couldn't do as much as easily as you are able to now.
    Believe me: reworking code is one of the most boring things you can do. (for the most part)
    IC is still mostly how/what it was back then. It is nothing new exciting like redpower with all the high tec machines and awesome redstone stuff. Not to mention the sub-blocks that are freely combinable.
    So IC isn't the most modern mod out there ;)
    In addition to that it's been getting quiet around here.
    I don't know the devs opinion on this, but in my opinion an active community is a very important motivation-booster.
    I mean back in IC1 days everyone would have spammed a thread with "leaked blueprints" for a new reactor system (bad example here ;) ).
    And don't get me wrong: we don't have a bad community here, but it's getting quieter and (i assume) most people are only here to look for stuff and then go away again.

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    So much for my opinion on how things developed over time, now: facts!
    Pageviews have been decreasing too, we once had 300-350k on one day, now it's always around 100-150k (on weekends ~200k)
    The bounce rate has been going up, too (user leaves website after one visit)


    Dont hate me for this, but modpacks proably are the biggest reason for this: why would you need to visit ic.net?
    They have their own (mostly copied) wikis, that include hidden recipies, and a larger community in their forums.
    Besides that: easy install.
    Well. i dont understand whats hard about droping forge into the mc.jar, deleting meta-inf and dropping the ic.jar into the mods folder


    ~16:40
    Money isn't the problem at all (as far as i know)
    Well. at least it shouldn't be, cause there are no costs at all (for the devs).
    I am paying the server ic.net is hosted on and the domain.
    Player is running some stuff on his server, but i've not heard anyone complain yet.
    And if they wanted money the easiest thing would be just to put up some ads on the blog/wiki/forum and there you go.
    Money.


    iMer
    PS: yes, missing so much stuff i wanted to say, but i do not have the patience to write more. -_-


    Edit: one thing:
    I complained about ghosts in the beta release thread a few times and was kinda ignored after a while, because apparently nobody else could reproduce those.
    Even after asking again, nobody cared :)
    Not blaming anyone, just saying.
    I may be stupid sometimes, but if i can't fix it even after trying multiple times, a lot of the other users may get the same issue too.

  • Site performance

    Did you notice any slow loading times or other bad things since yesterday?


    I'm currently trying out running boinc (what is boinc? ) on this server (and a few other ones)
    As a sideeffect the server is always maxed out (performance wise), but it theoretically shouldn't be noticeable due to the boinc processes having a low priority
    Basically i'm spending unused cpu cycles on caclulating stuff, currently i'm calculating some protein sequences.
    Obviously it's not an option if the server performance gets influenced too much and performance gets bad, so let me know if you noticed anything


    - iMer

  • Artificial Sun

    Quote from FenixR

    Range is fixed to 15 blocks from the source by the current lightning engine. And no the dev team will not rewrite the engine.

    Let's see what the new light engine changes bring us, maybe there's something you can do with that (hack-ish ways)
    I highly doubt they will (ever) change that, why would they even want to ;)

  • IC2 for 1.3.2 crashes when killing anything in water

    It's (probably) forge related


    I get that when i get disconnected (connection dies a lot here, shitty hotspot :<) and i release a key i was pressing.

  • [1.106] Experience from smelting in IC2 machines

    Quote from FenixR

    Because its sole use its for enchanting (Also the fact that you lose some/all of it when you enchant) what i say that i should be called something like Life Essence or Mana or Coin their own term for that instead of exp.

    I guess if they changed it after the snapshots everyone would be so used to saying xp or exp that it just would get stuck...
    Is there even an official naming? (in the game?)

  • No sounds at all

    Quote from Syncaidius

    Same problem here. the latest version doesn't play any machine sounds, except the sound when you stop a machine or it runs out of power.

    Just guessing here:
    It seems like sounds are server-sided now (soundlag and all that - pretty annoying if you ask me)
    But i have actually no idea what is really happening ;)