Posts by Rick

Even with the old costs and output nuclear power was easier to setup. The buff to nuclear energy was needed but the big nerf to solars was not needed.

In the end it wont matter how expensive you make solars. Lazy ppl wont stop being lazy even if you make solars cost 9 diamonds they still make solars and spam them like crazy until the server lags to dead.

Talking about so called 'free energy' windgens have a way better resource/output ratio (which was proved in earlier posts) but nobody whines on them.

But that would be redundant with windgens. I was more thinking of boosting the output by 2x when a solar is in a desert biome.

About the reactor costs they are alot less than what the solars would cost (you most likely will be below 1k iron with nuclear reactors and solars are like 5k..). Almost same story for tin/copper.
Some glowstone and lapis isnt that hard to find. By the time you get the other resources you have more than enough of them.

So far solars suck compared to windgens and nuclear power. Solars really need a buff.

you want the tin use for 250 cells?...Thats 62,5 tin almost nothing compared to the other costs which is why i ignored that in the first place. 500 solars cost 2000 tin.

Unless you get a serious amount of solars running for a really long time (in this example 58 hours with 500 solars) nuclear power will be better.

Quote from MJEvans

Rick, how much does the cost for 1 billion power units cost, including tin and uranium, if using 500 solars versus a nuke reactor; go ahead and pick any non CARUC/CASUC design you like.

It would take 3 nuclear reactors (http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r11r10) to match the output (ok just ignore the 10 eu/tick diference). Each uran cell makes 4 million eu so you would need 250 of them to get 1 billion eu which is quite easy to get in 21 cycles (58hours).

500 solars cost:
LAGLAGLAG
5000 iron
do i really have to continue?....

Obliviously non-micro stuff will be better when you got masses of them than micro stuff. Thats what they are made for in the first place...

Even with old cost for solars nukes are still much more resource efficient

1 solar will cost (old cost):
8 iron
2 redstone
4 tin
1,5 copper
3 rubber
8 cobble
3 coal
3 glass

You needed 40 solars to match the output of my starting reactor (which is btw not the most resource efficient design). Costs for 40 solars are:
320 iron
80 redstone
160 tin
60 copper
120 rubber
320 cobble
120 coal
120 glass

For the costs of my reactor go here:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…001501521s1r11r

Even with old solar cost and old nuclear output solars are very expensive. I understand they buffed nuclear power because it wasnt that good but i dont see a reason to nerf solars. They didnt even nerfed it a bit but with a huge nerf smash by turning 2 cables to circuits. I really wanna know why.

Quote from Indeed

Have a look at this :

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r01r10

I cant open that link

Edit: seems the reactor planner is offline

Quote from NuclearStudent

You trusted a dwarf known for building bridges out of TNT? Be more careful.
EDIT:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r11r10
This is a slightly safer design. But you can only run one cycle before cooldown.
EDIT: Teh correct link. http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r11r10

Both links are the same...

More confimation doesnt hurt anyone.

Quote from Mason11987

I thought it was overpowered even in SSP. When I got to the point where the resources to build a nuclear plant, my first thought was "why?" my solar plant produces just as much and it's already made and it won't require me to refill it with anything.

This is a sign that it was OP. It doesn't even have to do with SMP. If nukes are not worth it, and they require MUCH more effort the solution is makes nukes better and make solars worse/more expensive. That's what was done. Even if you ignore SMP altogther it's a good game design decision.

Just because you build your solar farm (which was btw much more expensive than a nuclear reactor with same output) before you made a nuclear reactor and not having any need to get more eu (because you already invested shitloads in it) doesnt mean its op. Even a basic nuclear reactor costs like 8x less iron than a solar farm producing the same output. Thats a HUGE diference.

So here are the numbers
My starting reactor (and yes there is a even more resource efficient reactor which is also in my sig):
40eu/tick
100 iron
2,5 iron/eu

Solars:
10 iron
0.5 eu/tick
20 iron/eu

8x diference in iron not counting the fact solars dont work with rain/thunderstorm and they cost much more space. Solars are really underpowered.

Technic pack is not compatible with most if not all the mods because it already has a shitton of mods in it. You prolly run out of id's or something.

Quote from HeadHunter67

What's "smug" got to do with it? I pointed out that others should check to see if it's a TMI-related issue.
If you doubt that it could possibly be the case, feel free to look around this forum (and the BC forum, and the MCF) and see how often TMI turns out to be the cause, rather than an accessory after the fact.
So the next step, of course, would be for you (and others who have reported the issue) to verify if it happens with crafted reactors as well.

This is a very serious issue, no doubt - so let's be sure of the cause, OK?

It happened to my legit CASUC reactor (yes i made a legit one after designing a couple of them in test worlds). I dont think TMI, creative or anything like that is causing it.

With redpower you can run this like a mk1:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r11r10

Through that will require a ton of recourses and alot of time to get it working properly. My old casuc reactor is a good place to start (link in sig). With retrievers you can go way faster than with filters.

Well i know filters and transposers can run at 0.4 sec but i do not know if that applies to retrievers.

This should be possible maybe with 2 retrievers if 1 isnt fast enough.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner…1501521s1r11r10

Damn thats a serious bug

Edit: just happened to me too....exacty at the moment the cycle ended.

Are you sure the batbox had energy left? Solars stop working at night so maybe the batbox was empty.

You wont fix the lag issue by making solars more expensive. Ppl who prefer solars still make them even through windgens are WAY cheaper. You have to change the solars so that they become less laggy thats the only way to fix the lag issue.

Ye and solars take a ton more redstone than windgens

Quote from Misticblade7

When did scrap become required for UUM?

Actualy you can turn matter to energy and vice versa in RL.

external heating is op thats why 0 chamber reactors are so imba. If each chamber would provide like 4 or 5 cooling things would change i think.