Posts by Lurch1985

  • [1.15 SMP] Bugs : Sound, Iron Fence Poles

    r.e. the problem with sounds being too short for the machine operation. This is impossible to avoid. The machines have a set operation length based on ticks (roughly 20 a second). As sound works in realtime i.e. seconds, it's not possible to sync these up. The problem arises when the server is not processing the full 20 ticks/sec (it will do this if it's not powerful enough to handle all the data being processed) and an operation time is lengthened by this, making a 15 sec operation into a 17 sec operation. As there is no hook in minecraft to stop a sound when a machine operation finishes, I cannot make sounds that are longer than a full operation. Unless of course you fancy coding us a timestretch algorythm without pitch modification for the audio engine a la Melodyne (which retails at about £500). ;)

  • [Bug V1.15] ITEMS

    If I remember right, the current version of Equivalent Exchange uses Itemsprite, which is incompatible with forge. That's your texture problem right there. If you wanna play them all together, wait for a forge release of EE.

  • [1.15] SMP - Batpack/jetpack sound issue

    Havn't a clue what triggered this, it's a weird one. Whenever someone nearby has a jetpack equipped (Think it was an electric one), every time I jumped it played the jetpack sound. I had only a batpack equipped and didnt' have a jetpack in my inventory at all.

  • BUG: Chainsaw-related sound bugs

    The sounds for the mining drill and the chainsaw are largely incomplete. The sounds at the minute are just placeholders. We're working on a completely different sound bank for them, but it requires an overhaul of the sound code for these items. Expect in a future release. :)


    r.e. the chainsaw problems. I think that's being worked on.

  • Closed Beta IC² v1.14

    Quote from Alblaka

    If BC SMP will come next weekend, i assume we better wait with IC² SMP as well.

    That's a very silly idea. If it's released now, we get a week of public testing so that it's totally ready for the next SMP release. If the work is finished and we have a release candidate sitting ready, it would be very foolish to waste a weeks work staring at the calender and waiting spacetoad. The community have been waiting long enough. Another week could hurt our player-base. We should really have pushed it asap after the yogscast thing came out to really increase our players.

  • Question: Different voltage levels

    1: Voltage and EU/s are 2 completely different things. Voltage is the power 'tier' whereas eu is the amount of energy being transferred.


    2: The maximum EU of 32 EU/s is per pulse. So you could theoretically have 100 generators attached, each sending 5 eu/s for a total of 500 eu/s. This will not damage the cable, as no individual packet is more than 32. There are just 100 5 EU packets.


    3: High voltage has higher loss, but because you will be sending much larger packets of EU, the overall loss will be much less. e.g. batbox sending current to another batbox over 5 cables, that's one loss. Over 32 pulses (for ease of math), you essentially lose one full pulse.
    Using an MFE, because the energy is bunched up into larger packets, 2 or 3 loss is much less of an issue (basically, you'll need to have 4 times the loss before you're better off with lower voltage). Similar rules apply to the higher tiers of electricity.


    4: Converting low voltage to medium voltage doesn't give you extra "energy". It just transforms it to a higher voltage. If you put 128 eu into a LV transformer (4 ticks on a batbox), you will still get 128 eu out the other end. It will just be a higher voltage. You could send it all the way up to HV and you'd still get exactly the same output as what you put into it.

  • UNEF

    Why are you using a miner? Pump above an infinite water source > Put empty cells in the top slot > power pump = water cells.

  • [Suggestion] "Personal Doors" and "Obsidiamond plating"

    Re stone is too expensive? And reactors are cheap then? It's SUPPOSED to be expensive... Bear in mind, that your reactor is not supposed to explode. If you make your reactor right, it's not necessary at all.


    And you can get 3 stacks in obsidian, easily, in 10 minutes. Yes, it is overpowered.

  • [AddOn v1.15] Advanced Solar Panel 1.2

    I like the idea of reducing it to 4eu and 1 at night. It balances it very well with the current material cost. I always thought that higher tier items should be a smaller reward for more work put into it. Take the technology market for example. If you're buying a graphics card, you can spend £200 on a mega graphics card, but you could also spend £400 on a mega-mega graphics card. There's no way in hell you'll get a 100% increase in performance though. More likely about 10%. I don't know if I explained that very well, but I hope you get the point.


    In reference to using iridium platings, bear in mind that these cost 7 million EU per plate. Would take a long time to justify the cost. I think halving the current daytime output would produced a perfectly balanced item. :)