Posts by SpwnX

I pretty much agree with axlegear here. Nobody wants pollution that doesn't make sense or is just slapped there for "balance".

If its there, it must be something that you deal with because it actually does yield real problems not just some random machine inefficiency "cause pollution".
That is just something half thought and a lazy implementation that I can't accept, at all.

+1 for making the place an actual hazardous place to live, If you can't grow crops, livestock and such, or even breathe safely on that place, it makes pollution already a big problem, really.
Make environment hazardous, enough to destroy your industry.
ALL Blocks get corroded with rain (save acid-proof blocks that are expensive as fuck), machines that run on water or air malfunction, machines that burn stuff gets inefficient (lower oxygen quality), machines that run any cutting device will start to need regular "maintenance" (replace macerator grinder blades, sawmill saws and whatever more).

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I'm against pollution affecting certain types of machines. Like that macerator.
Make pollution be a harm to living things and only some machines that make sense to be affected.

What about 4 types of pollution then? Those are all chunk based too.
Water, soil, air and radiation.

Each of them produced by machine types (and they can produce multiple types should it apply) and each of them having its negative effects on some other machines and environment.

Air pollution would slowly dissipate on its own, water and soil pollution would also dissipate on its own, but very very slowly, requiring active combat or it will reach critical levels fast.
Radiation pollution would also very very very very slowly dissipate on its own and there is little active combat to be done, if an area is radiated it is because someone was an idiot and blew a reactor and/or leaked waste, simple.

Machines with moving parts would pollute water and soil due the residues produced on the processing of stuff (macerators, extractors, compressors et cetera).
Machines that burns stuff would pollute air.
Chemical reactor, ore washing and Tcentrifuges would heavily pollute water, soil and air due the heavy chemical processing.

I'm overcomplicating? Yes. Do I care? Not really, I just wanted to show my idea. If nobody likes it, it will fade just like all the others.

Ventilation would be nice to be required, besides the chunk pollution, burning stuff would produce smog air blocks that floats upwards and can accumulate (like Thaumcraft gaseous taint), if you're in it, you suffocate.

Problematic wasnt the right word, the correct ones are slow and complicated.

Also I just remembered that UB GT ores are a GT6 feature, not present on GT5U. I wonder if bloody could port that easily.

We'd need a special nuclear waste handler. Else people will cheat and destroy whatever fluid/item produced.

One idea is to make Tcentrifuging depleted fuel rods produce nuclear waste fluid that must be stored on a special tank. If that waste fluid is within a non reinforced tank, it will leak, > permanently < turning blocks around it into radioactive blocks that can not be destroyed, those only decay over a long, long time.

Increase the random weight value.

You will increase the likelyhood of that one vein, while decreasing the others.
(chance = vein weight/total vein weights)

You shouldn't be producing pollution if your source of energy is fusion...

Now instead of ways to clean it, we should have upgrades that when installed on any polluting machine, reduces the pollution output. Those would be costly.

What about an analytics scanner googles.
It would show info of every block within range (similar to how the tricorder does, but in a more HUD-y way).
One of the modes would be pollution scanner.

We can always think of ways to screw most machines in a way or another, based on pollution, not just always some random "machines work inefficient".

Ore washer would require distilled water if the pollution level is too high because acidic water can destroy the byproducts
Macerators would require lubricant as pollution is corroding the grinder blades
Extractors would produce ashes 10% of the time because pollution is clogging the extractor's pumps.
Thermal centrifuges would require nitrogen gas (inert environment) to centrifuge.

Higher tier machines have a higher pollution threshold, with the highest tier level not be affected by pollution at all.

Affect water? Greatly increase cost to distill water, since the water is polluted.

Machines that use water to produce steam would produce less steam and might even jam sometimes due residue.

About my nickname: Yep, no vowels. It used to be Spawn, shortened to Spwn, then added an X to avoid the problem of "username already taken".

It doesnt make that much sense on how air pollution affects all machines though.

It should affect only things that burn (reduces air oxygen quality), like boilers.

Rain would corrode blocks away if the pollution is too high (slowly, all the way down to bedrock) , requiring a special acid-proof block to protect yourself.

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It can accept non 100 hU units, the pressure bars sets that. The issue being that it's not 1 bar = 1 hU, it seems more of a complicated scale.

It wastes it though because the water input and steam output is limited to multiples of 1 and 100

the stirling engine could be a less efficient version of the hu to eu conversion.
Stirling Generator < Stirling Engine + Kinetic Generator < Steam Boiler + Steam Turbine + Kinetic Generator

The steam generator (please rename it to a boiler) needs to be reworked to not work only with multiples of 100/200 hu too.

The second time is just meant to extract even more energy, even if its little.
However for sake of simplicity, I can agree it can be discarded.

Using coolants just improve the efficiency of energy creation, with the addition of a secondary process.
(Most of heat -> energy via primary process (stirling), small part of heat -> energy via secondary process (fluid heatup, kinetic), rest of heat -> waste)

What about just a Stirling Engine which just turns HU into KU?

Bonus: Addition of water into a stirling engine/generator increases efficiency, converting hU to EU/kU slightly more efficiently, while consuming water.

Also... The whole hU <-> hU <-> EU <-> hU needs to change.
1 ku = 1 hU = 1 EU , the difference would be how efficient you can do those conversions via machines.

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That would probably involve moving ~45 pages over. No idea if the mods can be bothered to do that (or if there's an easier option than one post at a time).

Its not hard to move posts, but doing them in a bulk is just a bit bothersome. It involves selecting them all first (one by one tho) and then its easy.

I may be up to the work should player decide to have all those "fastcraft will be used on modpack X" posts on another thread.

The solution to all problems: If its not enough, build more of it, yeah.

In my case its a burnout, I'm not in the mood to help anyone, sorry.

For ores you can't seem to make PFAA spawn, go with GT custom veins and put one of it in the nether.