Posts by Alblaka

    Sure. Though I would bet my left butt cheek there will be countless other mods doing the same :P


    Rough specs:
    Low-tier-helmet, some circuits and stuff
    Consumes EU while toggled active.
    Grants 1-sec duration Night vision every second whilst worn and active.


    Additional idea: Adds a blindness effect instead if worn in bright areas.

    IC provides enough settings for you to make up your own game rules and sense of balance. There are even sub-mods permitting to mess with any of the pre-existing recipes. You can change costs, ratios, energy production, anything.
    With the default values, we strive to create a simple effort-reward system: The player works to obtain the necessary ressources and then is rewarded by achieving a goal, crafting some fun stuff and watching nukes explode.


    I agree with the posts above. In the world of video games, a developer usually does not implement "an entirely arbitrary enforcement of defectiveness and scarcity", but an intended difficulty bareer. There is barely anyone interested in playing a game which can't possibly go wrong. And for those who actually do, there's Creative mode.


    I can't exactly see the point in your 'suggestion'.

    No, it's not meant to link into TDC or any other story, actually.
    It's a simple inception: the whole story was, as the dragon labelled it himself, 'just a nightmare'.


    Btw, there's no need for spoilers, given this thread is meant for discussing the storys content and thus everyone reading this read the story already eitherway. ^^

    Probably going to pick this up later on, maybe not. Since I've got loads of words already, I will lock the thread until I come to actually use some of them.


    Random idea: I want to write a "Junk Story".


    Post in this thread, your post contains a set between 1-5 terms.
    For example "Ice cream" or "Blue flower" are valid terms.
    Stuff like "And then he did that and..." is not a valid term.


    I will then attempt to write a story by using the given terms of multiple posts in their respective order (means, I will first use all terms of post 1, then all terms of post 2, though I may interchange the terms within one post).


    Given you can effectively drop me any terms, the outcome of this story will be EXTREMELY random. But I will try my best to make it reasonable (and most likely pseudo-realistic aka ludicrous).
    Be advised, if you try messing with me, I WILL abuse inceptions (a writer's trick, consisting of "[Plot A]. He turned off the PC and stopped playing this ridicolous game. [Entirely unrelated Plot B, picturing Plot A as content of the mentioned game]" or similar inceptions (dream, fantasy, novel-in-a-novel, etc)).



    edit:
    First part written down, containing the first three posts' terms. Will wait for some more posts until writing more. Let's see what you guys can think of...

    A quick 3 1/2 page story.
    Whilst it does not contain any explicitely mature content, this story's content is of complex, criticizing and possibly melodramatic nature and could be the cause of possible depressions.
    Read on own danger, as usual.


    I could talk much about this story, but for my own sake it's probably best to leave this story uncommented ^^'


    Yeah, if the machine has a UI then all one has to do is shift+right-click. I think it works for some IC2 stuff as well. (transformers and such, placing them next to something)


    Vice versa, this feature was coded for all IC2 stuff, but it may doesnt work for blocks of other mods. Though all redpower machines have this feature as well (given Eloraam came up with said utility idea first).

    Well, one of their guys contacted me via PM and actually that's the sole reason I noticed THIS thread to begin with.
    According to them, they had an issue during a update/restart of their TS server, messing up the access restrictions. The channel shown in the screenshot was meant to be password-protected with closed access to beta-testers and developers of said mod(pack) only.
    As such, there's only minor harm done and I do not intend to bother much with it ^^


    Just clearing this up, in the unlikely case somebody uses the search function to look for a similar issue in this regard.

    A reactor will check for redstone only once each full second.
    If this check happens during the deactivated-redstone-phase, it will fire up and run for one second until noticing you turned redstone on again.
    Vice versa, if you deactivate redstone and reactivate it BEFORE the reactor checks, it will not react.


    Not semi-random ^^

    Now, I do have an explicit donation button on the main thread and I actually consider one enough... opposed to a few other artists/mod developers I don't see the need to spam my readers/users with donation buttons everywhere :O


    And ye, if I could find someone to actually draw those storys into comics, this would turn out awesome... The issue is, however, finding artists willingly to draw the countless pages ned to cover a x-pages text story ^^'

    Quote from IC Wiki

    Once your shiny new QuantumSuit Leggings have become your favourite method of transportation and you're immune to fall damage thanks to your QuantumSuit Boots, it's time to show Vegeta who's really over 9000: Create a nice little track of about 10 ice blocks in a row, place yourself at one end, activate your suit and accelerate across the ice. Right at the end, jump and loudly yell HAYO! as you get closer and closer to the stars! Note that IndustrialCraft² cannot be held responsible for injuries incurred when jumping into walls and/or mountains as you clearly did not yell HAYO! loudly enough to shatter the obstacle.


    Hehe, THIS is why I love community-driven wikis: You even get fun quotes the developers didn't think off.

    Minecraft runs in "ticks". Effectively, everything is "round-based" and updated x times during a second. Quite all games work like that, though their tickrate/framerate differs.


    In case of minecraft, the game is hardcapped at 20 ticks per second. This means, if you FPS >= 20, you will run at these 20 t/s. If your computer is slower, however, your minecraft will run in "slow motion", aka less then 20 t/s.


    The reactor uses a lot of CPU and thus only calculates it's inventory every 20th tick (= once per second, on a normal-speed computer), whilst saving the "produced energy" into a variable and emitting said energy every single tick (like a normal generator).


    If a Reactor produces 120 EU/t, it does emit 120 EU every single tick. It does, however, only update itself every full second.



    If you PC runs slower (<= 20 t/s), your whole MC world will run slower. If you, f.e. got 10 FPS, all machine operations will take 2x the time.
    You can watch this interesting effect when playing on an overloaded server. I once played on IR with a dupe-bug lagging the crap out of the server. Smelting one item in the Electric furnace took ~30 seconds realtime, because the server itself was running at <5 FPS. Happened QUITE some time ago, somewhen around IC1.

    Nether portals bugging out and having different entry/exit spots is a vanilly bug (or feature?).
    Nether portals spawning on new worlds via world generation is... uhm... a new issue, though.

    I just read it and it definitely has an interesting take on vampirism, although is the setting modern day or in the future as the city is Neo York, was that a typo or a play on New York indicating that it takes place in the future? I would say that you probably shouldn't be worried about your stories' subject matter as Stephen King wrote Firestarter which ended up getting banned in many places for containing writing of more things than just the violence and death your stories contain, and he turned out fine didn't he?


    It's not exactly vampirism though it does effectively share a few main components, I guess.
    Je, the setting is an undefined near future. "Neo York" effectively causes every reader to associate the city with New York, giving them a basic idea of the city itself, but still permits me to add whatever location I want, because it's not exactly the same town :3


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    I see what you did there :rolleyes:


    I hope the actual wordpun still came across right. Writing "She was going to" would have defeated the purpouse of the 'literally'.
    Though I could've written "She was fucked... or rather going to be, within the next minutes."