2. how is energy loss handeled.. IE copper wire right now goes 4 before loosing energy.. does this change? ( IE does it loose energy on each wire part )
From what I can tell/understand, it will lose some EU per cable. Meaning if the loss from copper hasn't changed, then every copper cable will lose 1/4 EU.
Suddenly it makes more sense 
Do you even remember what Minecraft is? 
Actually, I think it might only be 100:1 now. Since 1 mB of water makes 100 mB of steam in the steam generator. Does increasing the steam pressure change that in any way?
Wait. FallenBeast? You're back?
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Regarding my e-net question, I'm genuinely interested: is there actually any info out there? So far all I've found is that the current one is a temporary plug. This is cool. However, I'd like to know if there's any official commentary on what we might expect from the new version (whether its a remake of the original IC2, or something else, or what)
Not especially, since Player keep tweaking things. But from what I can tell, a batbox for example outputs 32EU, which can go down tin cable. Another batbox will make it 64EU so the tin cable would fry. Meaning having hundreds of HV Solars will now fry cables as the amount flowing through adds up. This is opposed to before in which each EU packet was dealt with separately. That's what I think happens, but things might have changed.
Will steam be made to generate at a water:steam ratio like Railcraft (for limited water worlds)
IC2 steam generation is a better ratio then Railcraft's isn't it?
(is alblanka the owner though?)
Sure, but imer can still use/change it, so that won't be a problem.
Secondly, I agree with your points here, and I have a feeling they are echoed throughout new and old users alike.
I think he's being overly mean on Thursdays. Mondays and Tuesdays are way worse 
Ironically Forestry doesn't, but does add bees, so is in a really interesting place.
Bad news everyone! Now Sengir has opened the rights on Forestry so that anyone can edit or fork it, an RF version is probably going to be made. So Forestry could fall to the dark side!
Regarding Thursdays: they should act more like Fridays.
They can replace Tuesdays: https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/496530636120018944
The search "feature" is out right useless, that I agree to. But the forum was never designed for other forum users, especially considering it was used since IC1, so there wasn't much to compare it to at the time.
My opinions, in no order what so ever.
First is the GUIs. Sirus's texturing work is nice, and tooltips help a ton, but right now IC2Exp GUIs are rather cluttered. They are tough to navigate and are a bit strange. Something more userFriendly would aid the User Experience tremendously.
How are the GUIs cluttered? If there were, then I'd suggest something similar to the way Binnie did it for Extra Bees and Trees, so that holding shift over a section would explain it, and show where the item you shift clicked on would go. But IMO they're fine, and there's not really any good way to "declutter" them, since everything which is there needs to be.
The current mutliblock trend is helping this
Making multi-blocks for things that don't need it? The coke oven from Railcraft was only a multi-block because there was going to be a different way of getting creosote oil from smelting coal. It was new and different, as nothing else really had multi-blocks. Now it seems many mods do it, when it's really not necessary. IC2's way of small scale multi-blocks like the steam generator are flexible, but most of it could be done remotely if necessary. I think the way IC2 has made small scale multi-blocks in the form of heat and kinetic generators and receivers is suitable and has no need to be drastically changed. And reactors, if a little lead heavy for the amount that is generated, are fine too.
add some compressed air through any series of methods, that can be timed with redstone or automated with minecarts
That's just adding steps because you can. Making it difficult for people just puts them off. When there's a compressor, there is no need for specific timing or fancy over the top automation, because Pnumaticraft does things with air, IC2 just adds it to make the blast furnace a little more exciting. The blast furnace makes one thing, and that is refined iron. Maybe if it was more core to IC2, like if it made plates, then perhaps it could do with something a little more, but it doesn't.
Now if you were to take a different approach, one where there was a website, and under it there were several tabs, you could solve this issue. For instance, you would have an about page, a wiki page, a bugtracker page, and a download page.
http://www.industrial-craft.net/ There you go. Were it not abandoned, and maybe tweaked a little, it seems to fit perfectly with what you describe.
it is honestly a terribly designed forum. Both aesthetically and functionally the IC2 forum is a mess
The IC2 forum is fine. I can't see why it is necessary to mess with something that functionally, fits it's purpose. The mess is caused from having a finished threads section, but it not being used. The issue if you start removing old things, is if someone is still doing something, and suddenly they make a duplicate because it' been taken away. Granted, things like the addons, suggestions and support threads need cleaning, but someone will ask why is this happening, or make a suggestion that is a duplicate of one has been moved. Not to mention the time factor of shifting every over.
Will it go up on Curseforge or other mod distro?
No. Why should we bend down to Curse when we have perfectly good ways of distributing it ourselves? That and we never have, so there is no reason to have a duplicate download link which would need to get updated as well.
Will it be Industrial Craft 3?
When the E-net's finished.
That's my opinion on the matters. I expect some people may have differing ones.
I also suspect CofH team is going to fully flesh out itemducts so they can start pushing against the new Buildcraft / RedPower3 / ProjectRed.
Extra Utilities only needs to add a filler, then Buildcraft can and will be dropped, Redpower 3 will be too late. ProjectRed might end up leaning towards COFH and don't forget about BluePower, which won't touch RF so might help the push against it.
@Choco: has it been said somewhere that ic2 is out of ftb for good? Or are you just as sure as i am?
They said that packs will aim to only use one power source, and that's RF. IC2 doesn't and won't use RF, so unless Dire adds it to his pack (which he probably will), I doubt any of the big FTB packs will have IC2 in.
Item casings should macerate into 4 tiny piles of what ever they are made of too, since they are half a plate, and a plate macerates into 8 tiny dust.
It used to, but Thunderdark removed it saying it didn't fit in or something like that. And a separate sawmill machine would justify things like cutting doors back down into planks too.
Not empty, backlogged. All the bugs are assigned but not fixed. All the blue (and red) bugs are ones which are still valid.
Kerbal Space Program
Covering over the bad bits? That'll work 
Cool, thanks for the fixes
The one thing that bugs me from using a sole IC2 power grid is the fact that there is no good way to get more out of your wood. IC2 should add a Sawmill which could cut wood logs into more planks, make more sticks per wood plank and break some wooden things down back into planks, like doors or trapdoors back into 6 and 3 planks respectively.
I also came up with an idea for an upgrade which would let a machine emit power from a chosen side (similar to the ejector upgrades), so that they could go in the middle of power lines, meaning things like electric heat generators wouldn't have to stick out, but could go in line with cables
What would be also cool if there was a way of making a cable not connect to a machine, so when explosions come back, your close wiring doesn't have to be changed just to go around a machine.
