Posts by Cadde

Quote from Ranakastrasz

Sorry, Wrong. Read up on what intuitive means.

It is contrary to what would be the obvious mechanic, and logical real world correlation, where the amount of EUs going through the cable obviously would be added together, and ought to melt the cable as a result. The fact it does not work this way causes it to be counter-intutive.
Sorry, but just because you know it does not prevent large numbers of threads from people who get confused by counter-intutive mechanics from being created.

I personally think it ought to be changed, but I see the issues with changing it (specifically that this would also have to change the way resistance works, as well as increasing melting points of wires, and probably explosion points for storage machines, and hence requires significant thinking before my posting an actual suggestion on the topic)

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Obviously everytime someone posts on these forums they should add "Minecraft and Industrial craft is a game, it doesn't have to make sense to a real life engineer"

However, i do agree with you. Current is what melts cables and kills people, not voltage.
And i have suggested this change in the past but have yet to see any support for it. People like their wonky mechanics because they base their "hax designs" on the very same mechanics.

EDIT: And dammit, learn to quote right!

Quote from the titan

if it makes a difference. instead of beams, would make some translucent pane like field a difference in computing and rendering? instead of small rod like beams?

Not really. But then again, this is MineCraft.

Quote from HELLFIAZz

If someone is stupid enough to break the game, then they are welcome to it. If you're not going to pay any attention to what people say then you'll get what's coming to you. And, how exactly does it unbalance the mod, an honest question BTW.

The mod was balanced with "pre enchanting" in mind. With enchanting certain IC2 items becomes excessively powerful. It's quite simple if you start thinking about it.

What's with the excessive line breaks?

It would be easy to change this technically but would require a base class mod and that would mean Forge would have to hook it up.

EDIT: Or you can make your own mod that makes explosions not destroy water.

Cannot reproduce.

Quote from NightKev

Both the normal and diamond-tipped mining drills harvest mycelium blocks at the same rate as punching it with your hand. I suppose it's probably just a "whoops forgot to register it to mine mushroom grass" thing.

It's not a "whoops" really. Mycelium was introduced in MC 1.0.0 and IC2 1.42 was nothing more than a direct port from MC 1.8.1 to 1.0.0 and 1.43 was a number of bug fixes.
You should post this in suggestions.

I don't get two numbers from one scan just to be clear.

If using the OD scanner you get the number of valuable blocks in a 5 x 5 x playerHeight area. So if you are standing at sea level (64) you are scanning 1,600 blocks. It returns the number of blocks in that area considered valuable (which can be altered in the config)

If using the OV scanner things get a little bit more complicated. it returns the VALUE of all blocks in a 9 x 9 x playerHeight area. If you are standing at sea level that's 5,184 blocks scanned. It now goes through all blocks in that area and summarizes the values of all ores it finds. (that are listed in the valuableOres config)

valuableOres=14:3, 15:4, 16:1, 21:3, 56:5, 73:3, 247:4, 248:2, 249:2

each entry (between the commas) is <blockID>-<MetaValue>:<oreValue> where

<blockID> is the id of the ore block.
<MetaValue> is the block "sub id" if you will. Mods like RedPower uses meta data to consolidate all it's blocks under one block id. If you want to differentiate between them you need to know their meta data.
<oreValue> is the value of the block... for instance:

block 14 is gold and is worth 3 points
15 is iron worth 4 points
16 coal 1 point
21 lapis 3 points
56 diamond 5 points
73 redstone 3 points
247 uranium 4 points
248 and...
249 tin/copper 2 points

So for every block scanned, if one of them is any of the above then "points" value will be added to the scan result. Now, before the result is presented to the user it will be reworked a little...

(1000 * oreValue) / blocksScanned

so if you find 100 diamonds in that 9x9x64 area (5,184 blocks) then the OV scanner will return 96. (The remainder is truncated)
Whereas, if you find 100 diamonds using the OD scanner you get 100 as the result.

Quote from pizza1423

I've been getting the same problem with crashing, but when I re-installed IC2 it still didn't work. I've updated Java

Make your own thread and supply modloader.txt and crash log.

Rubber trees can spawn in any forest biome and will also spawn (in great numbers) in a swamp biome.
Keep on looking for them, they are easy to spot if you can see above the treeline as they are the only trees with a single column of leaves going up from the trunk.

like so:

#
  #
  #
##@##
##@##
##@##
  @
  @
--------
# = leaves
@ = trunk
- = ground

provide a modloader.txt at the very minimum... More details is always better.

If you don't like the vanilla ore distribution you could always try OreVeins... (Not going to link it, that would be advertising)

Quote from 黒獅子

No it's not? Download all the mods that are in the Technic Pack, put them together, then tell us how long it took you to make it work at least somewhat decently.

Do you honestly think i want all those mods to begin with?
Now, do you think all the people getting Technic pack want's all the mods in it?

They are getting Technic pack because it's easier to install. Now, try as a noob to install another mod alongside technic pack... What's that???

I use the mods i like, i download the mods i like. I go to each and every release thread and download them until i have all the newest versions. It's not a difficult thing to do really and you are updated on any bugs/changes/fixes that occured since the previous release.

If i wanted ALL the mods that are in Technic Pack i would find a way to make them work no matter how long it takes. LOOOONG before i would download the Technic pack like a total slug baby.

Quote from FusedIon

so is higher efficiency better then?

Higher efficiency is cheaper in the long run as you don't need as much uranium to produce those EU's.

For instance, compare these two designs (just for the efficiency comparison now)

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…=1k10101001501521s1r11r10

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…=1k10101001501521s1r11r10

The first one is 2 cells separated, same amount of fuel as the second one but the second has the two cell together.
The first one will generate 4 million EU at a rate of 20 EU/t while the second one will generate 8 million EU at a rate of 40 EU/t.
The second one has double the efficiency. (you spend 2 uranium cells and get twice as much because they are next to each other)

The downside to getting higher efficiency though is that cooling becomes more problematic and TWICE the heat is generated. (in the second reactor example)
As you add more cells close to each other cooling becomes ever more problematic and heat generation increases massively. At some point, you are not going to be able to cool the reactor fast enough to give you a full cycle (2.7 hours of running time) but you will get more EU's out of your uranium cells.

It's a balance between whats most important to you.

Safe reactor <> saving uranium <> high effective EU/t <> resources to build reactor <> resources to cool reactor <> the amount of time you want to spend with your reactor(s)

If you have several stacks of uranium then efficiency isn't going to be as important to you. If you have LOTS of resources then cost isn't going to bother you that much.

There is no "best reactor" design. It's all about what the user needs right then.

Quote from _Tim_

The wiki is clearly marked "and with redpower 2 show text", requiring you to click it to reveal this with silver recipe ..

Just FYI, if one has a "no script" addon in his browser this spoiler is open by default.

To me, the most reasonable solution here is to send any SSP map packed together with the config files. It's not like the config files take much space...
It would be nice if all mods had their own unique ID's but that's just never going to happen because there are so few available.

Quote from HELLFIAZz

Why should you remove the ability to enchant or brew with this mod? There are quite a few people who like this mod, who also like magic. Giving someone a choice between Minecraft vanilla and other mods, and just this one with other mods, I'm sure a lot of people would go for MC vanilla. You would be alienating a group of your community just because another group doesn't like a perfectly avoidable feature. You don't have to brew or enchant, so why should you completely remove it, when there are people who like it?

Because enchanting actually breaks stuff. And further more, it REALLY unbalances the mod to have enchantments enabled.

Quote from raGan

That means there is no difference in the way it runs stuff i guess.

No, JDK includes JRE plus the development tools.

But it does sound rather strange that you (and a few others) can't update LWJGL when so many others can. Maybe it's hardware specific?

For what it's worth, my minecraft PC (that i play MC on) has a Core 2 Q6600, 4 gigs of ram and a NVidia GTX260 graphics card.
Am i right to assume you have an Intel graphics card? (Lots of people have had issues with intel cards in MC)

Quote from Xyberviri

Yes ill post my test_land when i get home from lunch in a little bit with my configs for it, i play on the industrial rage server.

I can get more than 1820 by removing ice blocks, how ever this is the only layout that gave me 1820 @ 4.33 eff and had a cool down of 4 seconds and could run more than 1 cycle or didn't require advanced redstone timeing.

Also on the note of using a mob, you can put a inline item detector and wire that to a timer and toggle switch so that when the item detector sees a snowball go though it resets the timer, if the timer goes for more than say 30 seconds then it should kill the system, how ever you would also have to add a item detector to the ice delivery system to ensure ice is still going though.

I have a 0 chamber SUC design with the singularity compressor being powered by the generator its feeding. if you look in this video you can see my 0 chamber suc is running in the back ground on the left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryio-hw5keI

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Ignore the cooldown... The cooldown is there because the last reactor tick doesn't zero the reactor heat. When you start it again it will maintain the same heat levels as before.

Quote from FnordMan

more than a maybe, it works fine. I've got the miners here set for all of the RP2 ores (forgot to turn off RP2's copper and tin, oops..) as well as Forestry's apatite ore. Picks them all up fine. Damage values are represented by a colon. (aka: 140:1, 140:2, etc..)

to the OP: do yourself a favor and install the mods you want by hand, you'll get a better end product than the giant theft that the tecnic pack is.

The format is <blockid>-<meta>:<oreValue> where oreValue is used by the OV scanner to determine the ore density when you use it.