Posts by FenixR

Quote from raa1337

Either the Induction Furnace goes, or the Adv. Machines are added. Anything else is illogical.
If the Induction Furnace is 'new tech' like the other three, then it should have the upgrades, not the electric furnace, no?

I could say the same but in reverse, where are the lower tiers of Macerators/Etc? it only makes sense right?

Furnaces have no sense of balance since they have 4 tiers; Stone>Iron>Electrical>Induction, and they have these tiers only because its the most basic process in the whole game, without smelting we could not do 90% of the stuff we get from IC2.

I dont care if inductions stays or go (Although at this point i would just remove it so people stop complaining about stupid stuff)... In fact keep the induction furnace, the only thing that needs to be banished its the "Heat" system the induction furnace runs on, the dual smelting its good stuff to make a Daily process even less tedious.

Quote from raa1337

As said here, he's not 100% against it, but the likely hood of him changing is fairly low.

And I have started a new world. Many, in fact... The only issue is I'm a Solar Panel whore, and I make thousands of them. Thousands, before I started using EE, which allows me to make even more (Iron, painful).

(Also, multi-quoting is kind of hard, for some reason... No names as I had to jury-rig it, but they're exact quotes.)

Im still saying Induction furnaces should go, but im gonna hold on that though if we see a improvement on the OC system in the next update. (Although Solar Arrays should indeed be added to the IC2 core, of course with some slight modifications because even if you need 512 solar panels for the HV array, the amount of space you are saving with it is so huge you can call it OP.)

(Meh, instead of using the editor you could use the source code, more easy to place quote marks and any other thing, always found the editor to be kinda buggy/glitchy at times)

Quote from Shadowclaimer

Oh to clarify, my drills aren't just tipped, these you build entirely. 5 metal bar + circuit + battery. Similar to the base mining drill.

Although I may allow the players to diamond tip each one to increase their speed though.

And what are you going to do with the old drills? remember IC2 drills wont be destroyed ever unlike regular tools.

I just had this idea, how about you make the part of the drill separately? The first part the drill Head and the second part the Drill Base.

You could have the drill base to have 3 different tiers, Batterys/Energy Crystal/Lapotron (If you dont want to make new energy storage items, rest of the recipe also on you) and the logic behind every upgraded drill to have more energy its, because of lighter/better materials it consumes less energy per revolution and more energy storage coming from the drill base (tralalla my own internal justification for it)

Quote from Shadowclaimer

Diamond in my mod is brought down a lot from Vanilla, I may have to do the same to the Diamond drill in the compatibility patch.

I understand the logic issue, but at the same time if all the better metals let you do was mine new ores and mine slightly faster, would that be enough to make people want to do it?

Logic wise it doesn't make sense that the Diamond tipped Mining Drill somehow loses maximum energy compared to the normal either, but for gameplay purposes it makes sense.

If we were to start at Iron (skipping Copper, Tin, Bronze, Hepatizon) there'd be dozens of metals (depending on what metal packs you use) to build your drills out of. I'd just like them to be a "rechargeable pickaxe" effectively, I like the idea of heading into a mine, mining till its dead, heading out, recharging and dumping your gains, and starting again, and if you told me that if i worked my way up the metal tier list to obtain a top end metal with a nice prebuilt energy capacity, fast mine speed, and can mine about anything I'd jump on it for all those reasons.

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Thats why im saying, just having the tip covered in new metal should not make the drill store more energy, the recipe should include more components "Electric" wise to allow to do that. But let me clear my head a little and later today i will give you a more proper response/idea/suggestion for it.

Design wise it looks good... Logic wise meh.

Materials you use to make the head should not determine how much energy these drills can hold, unless you also plan to mix some other materials to the recipe. You could even include more batteries in the recipe of each drill or a lapo/energy crystal for such things... Which brings the question, how will these drill will be made? From iron to the next tier till it reaches Diamond or something? I have to check your mod (Only reason i dont its because i find it annoying having so much minerals in my game), maybe i could even suggest you make new batteries/energy crystals with your new ores to make more sense for the drills to have more energy storage...

Quote from raa1337

Not for 1.64 they don't. Which is the entire reason this topic exists.

So hard to wait for the author to update?, just make a new world to pass the time (afaik he hasnt said hes going to drop it).

For having the mod included in the core of IC2, albaka already said that its not going to happen.

Quote from Kane Hart

It's because of the batpack lappack and etc. It should be fixed in 1.65+

Didnt have a batpack/lap at the moment. So Rubber boots also causes that behaviour.

Why would you want to change the durability of the drill? Mostly because using a lappack (Or having several) in your inventory gives you a crapton of energy to waste before using the internal energy of the drill.

At best what kind of materials the drill can mine and at what speed its the only thing that would probably be customizable.

You could have bumped the thread, and if people didnt show any interest after all then you would know their opinion.

Remaking threads just to repost an ignored idea its no way to do things.

(Didnt want to make a new thread for this)

I have noticed some weird behaviour with the extreme damage and rubber boots.

Whenever i equip my rubber boots with any other piece of armor, those pieces will instantly break (using 1.3.2 forge rev 29, the armor breaks but instantly regenerate though, with 1.3.1 the armor permanently breaks), and when im using any armor without the rubber boots they work normally O.o.

Why did you feel the need to Remake the same suggestions you did in that thread weeks ago!

I can tell with 80% accuracy, that it will do absolutely nothing.

IC2 farming its a little different so i dont think the green laser will be able to affect these blocks.

Quote from Alblaka

Will be automatized with a machine of core IC². Just didn't find time to code it yet.

As well, Crops REALLY aren't meant to be fully automated. They're meant to be a fun timespender :O
If anyone at some point complains about automatized crop-farms breaking server balance, i'll add a hook to prevent them to be harvested without an actual player being present.

I can hear the silenced crys of a thousand players in the future about this...

Anyway that would be indeed useful, since people creativity will reach to players making iron dust/gold nuggets farms completely automated... As long as planting the seeds, placing the cropsticks and right clicking a crop to be a player only interaction, balance can be properly maintained.

Quote from Sebra

RailCraft Mod has couple of blocks and a car, which activates only if BuildCraft present.
Is it so hard to cooperate with Eloraam without strict dependency, or will it lead to too much excess code?
CF block hiding wires is good idea, but not so universal as panels.

May be if CF block was used to hide non isolated wire, destroying it should make voltage damage.

Railcraft made their own blocks and car, which are compatible with the buildcraft systems. Unlike RP2 where elo made the covers specifically to work with her cables, this has been discussed before, the only way to make covers compatible with other blocks (Like cables), said blocks would need a major rewriting to work with covers + it would be absolutely necessary to have RedPower2 Core files for them to work. Since most modders want to be Standalone (At least IC2 in this case), dependency on other mod core files is a pretty big "NO".

Sides Elo Project is closed source with no API (yet), so trying to make stuff thats compatible with Redpower 2 + other mods its difficult.

Quote from z3rO

But wait, guys, covers DO work with cabels, why do we need to suggest anything?
Or i don't understand what do you suggest ever....

Red Power 2 Covers CANT be placed on the same block a IC2 Cable is.

Its true that you can cover IC2 cables with RP2 Covers, but you will end up using the 4-8 blocks nearby the cable to do so.

Quote from Altaree

I wonder how hard it is to read the fert/hydro level of a block for a addon... Not claiming to be developing it, just a thought...

It should be simple enough, dont understand why they didnt put that funtion in the Cropanalizer

The machines will keep working as long as you provide them with power. If you dont provide them with the constant energy they need, they will simply not work at maximum potency.

Thats why transformers and energy storage upgrades exist.

Quote from raa1337

Er- You can make a reactor generate ABOVE Extreme Voltage. Using RP2/BC, of course. So, one of two applications.

Isnt Extreme voltage Anything above 512 eu/t anyway?

I dont know much about chunk loading, but i do know that just because bukkit managed to do it in SMP (To be used exclusively in SMP only) doesnt mean that the same method will be involved in SSP.

And what would be the joke of Extreme voltage with your alternator? Its only application its only for energy transport over large distances, your alternator would simply make this voltage useless. Still find your idea to be lacking of any real use besides making stuff that are already implemented in the game more "Easy"

(And 90% of the people can agree the if you have IC2, you usually also have RP2 or BC because of the powerful synergy between these mods)

Also: Logic!

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Oh and just a small note. AC loses more energy over distance due to capacitive and induktive effects effectivly limiting AC-transmission to 50miles. The reason AC is used is because it is so easy to transform. But for really large distances you use HVDC the longest on is in china and has a length of over 2.000km. You lose about 3% over 1.000km with HVDC.

Quote from raa1337

So Extractors, Compressors, and Macerators shouldn't be able to have upgrades like the electric furnace, then?
Or, should suffer higher EU costs, and chances to explode when used, due to being more complex?

I'm just slightly confused as to how your opinion works on this.

Lol. He meant the "Heat system" of Induction furnaces where never meant to be placed on those machines... EVER.

Also i wish those machines were a lot more complex :3