Posts by Epic Lulz

adam27 wrote:

so regular tnt cant blow through obsidian, needed for tnt cannons and player traps.

also,how do you craft coolant cells in the latest experimental ic2 release, ive tried all the recipes listed at http://wiki.industrial-craft.n…ex.php?title=Cooling_Cell but none of them work.(sorry if this should be posted in a separate thread)

Don't use the wiki, although I can't blame you as it isn't updated yet and there is no NEI support either.

Use the canning machine in fluid enrich mode, you can use either:
- 1 bucket regular water + 8 lapis dust
- 1 bucket distilled water + 1 lapis dust

Instead of axels and gearboxes, we could do hydraulics or pneumatics, though they aren't original either. They are simpler though.

il-kuliko wrote:

Thanks me!

We know you're excited, but there's no need to post so many posts in a row. Use the edit function.

mementh wrote:

as i understand and have picked up.. glass fiber's MAIN benifit was less loss over distance! period! HV cable carried more but lost alot quickly!

What i understand is All cables will loose some over distance HV Gold Copper Tin! its that the higher costing will have less resistance ( i belive he messed up on that since it makes no sense to have higher cost offer lower reward) so over a 40 block strech you might loose say 20-30 eu/tick for HV. 45-55 for Gold 70-90 for copper and 100-150 for tin.

Also as i have picked up its no longer packet based, IE you can't send a million packets of 5 and not overload anymore. Total traffic will be a consideration along with the resistance?

i feel its a good solution, and able to be worked around.

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No, it's going to change.

"Voltage" (i.e. packets) will come back. Resistance will be variable depending on the amount that is passing through the wire OR the maximum "voltage" tolerance of the wire I believe (not entirely sure on that).

Proof (albeit somewhat outdated, from November):

Player wrote:

As I stated multiple times already the energy net is nowhere near its final state and voltage isn't implemented yet. The simulation does already use the correct algorithms, but the voltage values are being ignored atm.

Machines still explode by receiving too much energy at once, but right now current == energy and currents sum up. Later on the voltage will make machines explode and higher currents just mean more throughput at the cost of higher conduction losses.

Fearless73 wrote:

U just don't get it LuL. Go lul somewhere-else and stop commenting on this thread plz.

Ad hominem is not going to get you anywhere here.

See here, glass fibre cable is not meant for casual use (logically, it shouldn't even conduct electricity). There are far better alternatives, both economically and in actuality. It is pretty much intended that glass fibre is expensive to prevent people from abusing its usage like back in classic IC2. Well I do agree they may be slightly overdoing it (maybe 0.75 - 0.85 diamonds/cable would be a better compromise) but glass fibre cable is not something cheap you're meant to have after 20 minutes of playing.

Edit 2: Seriously, diamonds aren't that hard to get. Get a Fortune pickaxe (even easier in 1.8). A Fortune II pick and a medium-sized diamond ore vein (about 4 diamond ores) can net you about 7 diamonds on average. Sure, you need some bookshelves and enchanting tables, but that's late midgame vanilla, and about early midgame in IC2. Not that tall of a technological barrier.

Edit 1: So I see you're ignoring me. That's fine. I'm not going to get angry from any internet arguments. Denial isn't going to get you anywhere either.

Fearless73 wrote:

Just so that what I'm saying is clear. I do not have any problem with the efficiency degradation of cables within the game.
I am only pointing out that one single cable is costing almost 1 diamond. Where as previously the use of a diamond in a recipe would yeald 6/8 pieces of Fiber cable.
I know there are some smart people here with all the equasions and so-forth. I appreciate this.

My only point is about game balance and the cost of material to make the cable.

Thanks to those that replied. (p.s.. no problem Kye))

You need it for QEV/IV energy (max 8192) transference only I think, you can just use four parallel HV cables (max 2048) transferring EV for that, there is absolutely no reason to use Glass Fibre unless they decided to buff its resistance significantly.

Fearless73 wrote:

The IC2 Ex Team.

Firstly, thanks for a great mod that i've used from the very beginning.

Glass Fibre Cable used to cost a diamond per 8 pieces of GFC (if using silver as the added component). Now the recipe is 4 diamonds and 5 redstone to produce 9 energium dusts. then 2 energium dusts per piece of cable. That works out to be 9 pieces of GFC per 8 diamonds, or just under a diamond per piece)).

Now with the new kinetic Wind Gens that we have (that should be placed reasonably high up), GFC is really the only option to minamize EU loss.

Anyhow, someone maybe would like to look into a re-balance of GFC cost. 8 pieces per diamond is reasonable, I think! But, I'll leave it to you to decide.

Thanks for reading and all the work. Have a good one.

Phill.

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Cable loss, when reimplemented, will function differently from what it used to in classic IC2. Better cables will have higher resistance IIRC. Cable loss should be in decimals per block now, not 1 per x blocks. Use the appropriate wire and don't jump straight to GFC.

You aren't meant to have lossless energy transfer anyway. If you really want to do that, maybe try hopper and minecarts with batteries/crystals.

marieo10 wrote:

How about buffing the nano boots, make them so you can jump over a fence. There is a potion that makes it so you can jump just high enough to get over a fence. similar to using quantaum boots but only enough for fences.

love to see nano leggings make a person walk a little faster.

biggest thing would be a fuel powered jetpack + nanochest plate.

maybe hazmat suit + fuel powered jetpack = if it takes damage, it must be repaired with rubber before it breaks.

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If that does happen, make it a mode you have to toggle, don't want to accidentally walk up fences.

mementh wrote:

Well i tested.. looks like the EU reader is currently working again!!!!

My advice is for people to update there wireing ASAP!!!

I plan on going the HV cable route with two transformers every so often to reduce the loss for my windmill design..

And my Solar panels will get a simalar change to protect them.

Explosions are not in yet.. !!! I would suggest making sure in patch notes this is said specifically that its in so people can avoid issues

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I don't think that will work, cable resistance was going to be changed to x per block instead of 1 per x blocks.

Smaugan wrote:

Kelvin is mostly used in science, which makes sense considering what type of mod GregTech is :). Also at 0K it's -273oC and everything is solid at 0K.

Not everything, helium is liquid at 0 K (as superfluid Helium II though) unless you raise the pressure up to 2.5 MPa.

GregTech is a science mod, so there shouldn't be any non-scientific measuring systems in GT (although one can argue that liters are technically not SI units).

It is simpler to code in Kelvin instead of Celsius too as there aren't any negative temperatures you have to account for and a minimum of zero makes more sense than -273.15 or -459.67.

master801 wrote:

BC3 actually.

Um... BC3 was during MC 1.3.2. It's BC5 and 6 (NextGen) now.

Chocohead wrote:

While I was watching Quetzi's stream, he came up with 2 ideas that he's probably forgotten and isn't going to post them here. They were:

The coils in the electric heat generator getting damaged when heat is transferred
Standing in the path of windmill rotors hurting

The first one, I'm kinda half and half supporting, but the second one just makes sense. A giant metal windmill hitting you wouldn't just go straight through, it would hurt. A lot.

The chat came up with a suggestion too, that IC2 should have an in game book similar to OpenBlocks or Factorisation.
Doing this would clear up many things such as people asking how does the blast furnace work or how do I make coolant. I also think this would be the best way of collecting all the new experimental IC2 info, rather than having it spread across wiki's, forums and reedit.
A book IMO would be better than Extra Utilities' NEI info, as it doesn't have direct links to other pages, while Factorization's manual for example, is well linked in itself and even has 3D models of multi-block builds.

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The 2nd one seems pretty cool, although output should be decreased (since you are breaking the momentum) or it could be easily exploitable as a mob farm.

It would be pretty cool but pretty OP to see an Enderman farm in the End where the Endermen are being cut down by windmills generating energy at the same time.

AlFox wrote:

Guys, where is spawned osmium? I can get the osmium from crushed iridium.

Yes, crushed iridium.

gongalito wrote:

Hi!
I need to get irdium, so i need UU matter. I have craft the mass fabricator but i do not know how to use it. I dont know if i have to find UU matter in form of liquid and take it with a cell or something, but i have use the creative and the UU matter in cells does not work.
I am spanish so i am sorry about my english

Use a Scanner to scan iridium ore (found in dungeons, villages, mineshafts, etc.) and then place the data in the Replicator to create UU.

As far as I know, the new GregTech brewing system is quite unique and the closest thing that I can find to that is Blood Magic's alchemy system. There may be more obscure mods out there though.

Plem wrote:

Direwolf doesn't play GregTech, so I don't think he will do that.

He could treat it as the same way he spotlighted TFC... he doesn't need to play a mod he spotlights.

Similar to TFC, GregTech is bordering on a conversion. Not quite total, and not quite completely one, but yeah.

Ultimoos wrote:

I like that pick as well. It won't tell you exactly where you the ore is, but at least you know that there is something in the area. And that is exactly how this should work.

Maybe using Greg's level system, you can estimate the ore value instead if Greg wants to nerf it.

You can tell what level the ore is up to the level above the pick.

E.g. Using flint pickaxe (lvl 1), you can identify ores as lvl 1, lvl 2 or lvl > 2.

Using iron pickaxe (lvl 2), you can identify ores as lvl 1, lvl 2, lvl 3 or lvl > 3.

Using diamond pickaxe (lvl 3), you can identify ores as lvl 1, lvl 2, lvl 3, lvl 4 or lvl > 4.

Backdraft wrote:

This is the Futuristic one, not Classic :p Fonts were experimental and will be either removed or tweaked for the next iteration, because it ended up being not that great for extensive chat reading.
Between 1.7 and 1.8, the only thing that I need to change is the enchant table iirc, will do that once I finished PFM 1.1

Oh oops

JonnyBrando wrote:

I'm checking builds e and f to see where it started. I know 5.02a-d are fine.

EDIT: Builds 5.02a-f are all fine in 1.7.10, the error occurs on 5.02g alone.
EDIT: Yeah, any builds of IC2 newer than 2.1.480 2.1.484 require 1.7.10 builds of Forge. I stopped at GregTech 5.01j to match up with that in my install of 1.7.2 (which works just fine).
EDIT: Ok, so, in 1.7.2 GregTech tells you to update to build 2.1.484 (I should read closer), all fine on that front. Just clarifying again so no one picks me apart .
EDIT: Ok, so, GregTech 5.02a-g all work just fine with MC 1.7.2 IC2 2.1.480/4.

Back to the point: It's just 5.02g that doesn't work in MC 1.7.10.

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Just because it doesn't crash doesn't mean it will work normally.

Bronze crafting for one, should crash.

Paul17041993 wrote:

I know perfectly why the explosions exist in the first place, and makes perfect sense regardless as its to do with over-voltage, in previous versions you had both EU/p and EU/t, EU/p was the packet size, AKA 'voltage', EU/t was the actual draw rate, 'current', you could have an unlimited amount of current without issue, but provided the voltage was never above the safe level for the machine, and the voltage never stacked.

here's where the problem comes in; as of 1.6, this classic EU/p and EU/t system was removed, completely, now it only has a floating EU rate similar to that of MJ, RF and steam, no voltage, no current, the 'maxSafeEU' is still there in-code but its never used or called and the API will just send the machine whatever number it can, of which its then recommended to accept all of this value otherwise you get major power loss (I had to make my own power inverter mod as powerconverters was completely useless due to this), however for whatever reason greg didn't make any work-around for this so something as simple as two battboxes will blow up all your basic greg machines, or in my case, having more than 4 plasma gens on one power line will blow up AESUs or any other greg machines even when they have all their transformer upgrades (8192EU/p), which is technically a bug, and IC2 transformers were nerfed something awful so I cant use them to cap to 8192 unless I use 4 EV-transformers ( 4 * 2048 ).

really its a combination of a, quite frankly stupid, API change without proper thought and other mods not following the new rules, so really the only two mods that work correctly, if at all, with the new IC2 API is IC2 itself and my power inverter...

Voltage is coming back:

Player wrote:

As I stated multiple times already the energy net is nowhere near its final state and voltage isn't implemented yet. The simulation does already use the correct algorithms, but the voltage values are being ignored atm.

Machines still explode by receiving too much energy at once, but right now current == energy and currents sum up. Later on the voltage will make machines explode and higher currents just mean more throughput at the cost of higher conduction losses.

UU isn't finished either, we're not even close to think about balancing it. It's not that hard to find iridium or dungeons btw.

This was written last November though, so it misses out some of the newer experimental changes.