Posts by Snoochy

Quote from Keymaster89

U really want that siren, don't u? u posted that idea in all nuclear threads that u find

i simply want to see if the reactor is on... if u apply the siren, u must modificate also the main reactor... and u can't use the siren for other purpouses.

P.s. modified first topic so we can discuss for it in a fix place

mjing wanted it too :p and i find it would be nice trying to maintain a breeder reactor, cause if it get to 85% and starts making lava then it's going to heat up REALLY fast in which case we'll need to either turn if off and start dosing it with ice and water, or run like hell and hope we live. lol and you could use this to see if the reactor is on if it's a light+siren and you wouldn;t have to alter the main reactor at all. alblaka is adding a Nuclear Reactor Control block at some point and this Light+siren could go ontop of that, or you could just slap it to the side of the reactor like a refridgerator magnet and it would detect heat from the reactor and scream like a banshee if it gets to hot :p

the only + sides i see to this is clearing a field of all that annoying tall grass, and maybe using it to heat up a Breeder reactor by coating it in fire for a bit. lol

Quote from Keymaster89

I upset u? don't want that...
Anyway i never want to have a better backpack... lappak works really good for me

lol, nah i'm not upset, it's that your doing your math one way which makes sence to you but is incorrect as to how i was trying to explain as to why the values were off, and i can;t think of a way to explain it otherwise because i've been awake for the past 43 hours :p and the lappack is fine for my uses cause i can still clear a huge area by myself with 2-3 of them and i swapp them on each return journey, but my job here is not to shoot down people's ideas and say "hell no! your idea is shit!" but it's my job to try and help them balance it out into the game so that it better's their experience whether i personally use it or not.

Quote from Jivix

That's just hilarious. XD

he speaks the truth, i am usually AFK at night when no one is online, and then rarely people would log on at night and i'd be AFK, or when i got home and like 3-4 people would get online then 1 person would be away for like 2 hours cooking dinner or something. so it was just a Leap Frog Game of AFK and no one could ever sleep, and a few people houses were solar powered and they'd get screwed and other's suck at defending from enemies but are building outside in a jungle. so this machine would have been a great developement at the time.

Quote from Keymaster89

Actually, for making a block of lapis, u need 4UUM for 9 lapis
for 1 cristal u need 9 UUM for the diamond and 1,33 UUM for 8 redstone (4UUM x 24 redstone).
6 lapis block= 24 UUM for 240.000 EU
6 cristals= 63 UUM for 600.000 EU
PERFECTLY BALANCED ANOTHER TIME!

.... *facepalm* your helpless, discusion ended. back to the OP. if you want a more powerful backpack your going to have to sacrifice ALOT of materials, end of story.

and GregiousT, that's usually the best approach and just swap out 2 at a time, but sometimes my diamond mines stretch to be like 800 meters or more and it's tedious having to run all the way back.

Quote from Keymaster89

if something is wrong u will know that sooner or later...

also a true griefer could explode your reactor in 4-7 seconds. i know because i did it to myself once just to see, all you need it to take out coolant cells and add 8 buckets of lava then run like hell.

P.S. run Bukkit and have it Auto-Backup your server every 6-12 hours.

Quote from passinglurker

we already know nukes make lava when they hit 85% hull heat so we are just recycling the laws of physics we already got the idea is to somehow focus the heat of the reactor in a controlled manner to turn blocks into lava and then feed the lava into a geogen. like replace a chamber with a geogen full of cobble and every so many heat the geo absorbs it turns a block in its fuel slot into lava to be used as fuel.

nice theory passinglurker but i'm sorry that is incorrecct, when a nuclear reactor makes lava it makes Flowing lava's not Source lavas, that way players cannot use this to make Obsidian Farms.

Quote from Keymaster89

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Lappack hold 300.000EU - 60.000EU for batpack = 240.000 EU gap. Assuming that circuit don't hold any energy, the lapis do: 240.000 /6 block = 40.000. In the game they don't hold any energy, but this is their value IF they hold it.

6 diamonds VS 54 lapis seems to me a consistent effort for a boost in a portable battery capacity... and 1.000.000 seems to me enough EU to carry on...
1.000.000 is actually a lapotron that u can decharge on the way... it seems to me the cap of the portable-usable IC2 tecnology. Have devices that hold up more EU shouldn't be permitted.

you can't neccisarily just "give" a block an EU estimated value. the closest thing you can do to that is compare it through UUM, in which case 6 lapis blocks = 3 energy crystals. which means you'd magically gain power from making a lappack.

and agreed large EU portable storing Devices are usually shunned and aren't permitted, that's why you'd have to have such a drastic cost for the convinience of such a device. it would be an end game item to allow the end game players to relieve some of the manotony of pacing back and forth to recharge stuff. currently i run around with 6 lapppacks usually and only mine for Iron and Coal, then i make Tin and Copper from UUM which has a MUCH better ratio, so i save inventory space that way. however, my 6 lappacks drain before i can find 18-24 stacks of iron, coal, uranium, and diamonds. and since i've put so much time into this i'd greatly perfer to spend a farily "obsurd" amount of resources which at this point if almost trivial in order to ease my mining experience without as much of a need to return to town every 15-30 minutes to recharge.

Quote from SpwnX

Fine. But i still like knowing the EU/t the reactor outputs

you do know that the EU Detector exsists right? lol, i know it's kind of hidden in the Wiki but it is a very useful tool and is cheap to make, it's like a glowstone dust, 1 redstone, 2 copper cables and a cuircut.

Quote from Keymaster89

if u put all this massive EU container u obtain a REDUCTION of their conteniment power by 2/3 of their capacity, THIS is really UNbalanced.

first off, where did you get that a lapis block can hold any amount of energy, specially 40,000EU. also i'm not sure if you realized but as it is with all games and balancing, it require significantly more materials of rarity or effort to aquire a minor upgrade. then you have to try and balance convinience with power, you can either make it horribly inconvient to make and a pain in the ass to maintain or charge, kind of like the trade off with going from a drill to diamond drill, sure it mines faster but cost more EUs. so in this case it's a hell of alot more expensive but still not horribly overpowered. so you could either make it even more expensive and follow the trend and make it End Game of Final Game material. or you can make it just alittle harder to get and make it a significant upgrade.

if you REALLY wanted something with like 6 million EU storage then i would say 2-3 iridium plates, 2 MFEs and 4 lapotrons with a lappack. then this could be the energy equivalent to the Quantum Suit.

Quote from SpwnX

and what if someone bumps more Uranium cells inside? EU/t will raise and that will be the indicator that someone screwed with your reactor.

1: play with more trustworthy people.
2: make a hidden base and relay power with lapotrons.
3: secure your reactor with a locking door system and have lava everywhere.
4: if it's an untrustworthy group of people then make the inside of your reactor room nothing but tesla coild so when someone goes inside it will hit them for about 500 hearts of damage a second.
5: make the housing for your Reactor out of personal chests, that way only you can create an opening to get inside.
6: set up dispenser traps the constantly shoot fire balls or a pit fall trap into 6 deep of lava.
7: use your remote constantly and monitor your heat level.
8: set it up with a specialized cable system so that is your output goes over a certain Cables tolerance then it will fry that piece of cable and then shut down your reactor.(this can be done easily with 1 piece of gold cable and a detector cable, basically creating a Fuse, have a loop of wire like a P but have the top straight part of the P as a piece of gold cable. this will cause the EU's to take the shortest path, if the EU current gets to strong then it will fry the piece of gold and flow through your HV cable or Fiber glass cable, which you'd have a detector cable on, this would apply current to your reactor and shut it down.

how about combining 9 leaf blocks of the same type to make a sapling of that type?

also i don;t know about ya'll but i've never be able to change Modes on a Chainsaw in real life.... OH WAIT! yes i have! Off and Cut! lol. i don;t really feel that modes are necissary with the chainsaw. alos even when you cut up plants in real life with a chainsaw you do indeed get lots of leaves and a couple of branches that could be used to grow a new tree with some Root Starter.

Quote from SpwnX

Show when pressing M:

EU/t
Heat
Max heat before Critical
Components inside

and

sending player a RED text and a loud alarm warning whenever its reactor heat is near critical
sending player an orange text if reactor is deactivated/activated by redstone.
sending player a green text once every minute if reactor is active.

Or Someone could make an addon for future calculations (like reactor planner) and later implemented at IC² core if it is good enough.

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eu/t isn't neccisary, that's what the EU Detector is made for, also if you know your design well enough you should know what it's output is, it's not like it changed with how hot your reactor gets.

max heat before critical is 10,000 unless you toss in a few reactor platings, which aren;t really neccissary cause if this remote only work on 1 reactor at any 1 time then you should know what's in there. :p

Auto-sending a Red Text saying something like "!!!!!!!Reactor Critical!!!!!!" makes since. and orange for redstone singal is understandable. i could set up a system with MFSUs to collect a few million EUS and then shut the reactor off to Cool, as the MSFU pours it's energy into my main battery system.

Quote from Jivix

Well, that explains it. Why would you build a large city at bedrock level if you know slimes spawn down there? And how do you deal with the extreme fog? Why not just build higher up???

i raises it up to layer 10 so the fog isn't completely god aweful, but i wanted some of the fog look to the city when i was done, that way it keeps a dark mysterious and creepy appeal but there will be enough light to keep enemies from spawning everywhere.

also i'd rather deal with a constant slime infestation for realism for my situation then any other mobs, specially creepers, they tend to take out my Glass Fences and lightposts alot. since the rest of the town and building is CFoam it doesn;t really matter.

Quote from Keymaster89

2 million?!?!?!
2xMFE= 2x600.000EU = 1.200.000EU
4xLapotron= 4x1.000.000 = 4.000.000EU
1lappack= 300.000EU

1.200.000+4.000.000+300.000= 5.500.000EU and u want it hold ONLY 2 million??? i take 6 lappack, thanks...

it also saves a significant amount of storage space. and yes ONLY 2 million, that equal to just short of 4 LapPacks. also not everything has to make since, just like how 4 energy crystals and 6 lapotrons magically = 10 million when attached to some iron, tin and copper.

you have to think of what is Balanced, not "this is what i want, i don't care if it's OP, screw balance"

Quote from raa1337

Why should Al add anything more to reactors when it's already severely underused?

It's complex enough that people have made friggin Apps to allow you to figure out the most optimal reactor that you want to use.

There is no point to add/change the reactor unless a total and complete overhaul is done. Which is a wasted time that they could use to develop other things.

because basically what we are suggesting if that you should be able to extract the excess heat off to make the reactors more stable and be able to create energy from it, making it more efficient, this would cause the reactors to be used even more. instead of barely at all :p

Quote from sirbrandino

You really need more energy? Holy smokes, and I thought the lappack was big enough. How do you propose to carry all that material? If you really need to, bring a second lappack.

i could kind of see a bigger storage being nessisary if your on an SMP server, 1 person uses the mining lazer and 2-3 people follow behind them with their diamond drills and othr lasers scraping all the minerals out of the walls. basically the person with the most energy storage becomes a Tunneling machine and just plows tunnel after tunnel disregarding all minerals. i've done this a few times on my server but i carried 6-8 LapPacks. or if you just need to clear out a huge area like you are your own quarry, you just set it to long range, go about 30 blocks under ground and clear a 2 high area. you then proceed to shooting out the ceiling in columns, 30 blocks at a time as fast as possible, then 2-3 other players run back and forth collecting the material and taking the materials and depleted packs to the recycling center and charge your lappacks, then return for more. i've done that too for my "Tron Legacy" looking city that starts at layer 10.

Quote from Blacktronics

Hey, ive noticed that the Lappack is very empty when digging holes with a mining laser, or using it for mining only

i'd like to suggest some thing better than a lappack, maybe a MFE Pack, storing 600k eu, and the MFS Pack storing 5 million?

or Nano and Quantum packs?

not sure what name, how much storage and which recipes, discuss, it obviously needs balancing

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a mining laser isn't ment to be a tool where you can go under a continent, set laser to explode, and then completely destroy a continent from the inside. it requires you to go back and recharge constantly at the convinience of being able to shoot through 40 blocks at a time and then casually check the walls for minerals. as it is, with 1-2 lappacks and setting the laser to Long Range i can get an entire inventory of minerals (no cobble or dirt, only ores and coal). you just need to either make 1 or 2 more. the only time i've ever needed a significant amount more power was when i was using a mining laser to shave a 64 by 64 area from surface to bedrock for a foundation of a town. in which case i simply used 6 lappacks, only 2 were neccissary though because 1-2 lappacks would fill up my inventory and then i'd recharge them when i went to recycle all my cobble.

put if this was to be added i'd say 2MFEs 4 lapotron crystals, 1 advanced machine block and a lappack.

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2million storage imo.

Quote from raa1337

Assuming you use scraps in the Mass-Fabricator (most people do).

and some people don't. i got enough generators and power sources to make 1 matter every 3 seconds without scrap when i have everything going. :p scraps don;t register it seems when the machine is going that fast.

Quote from GregoriusT

ehhh that's completely impossible, because the 3-Dot-Outputside is facing the Storageblock you describing and Outputside + Outputside = No connection

i thought it caused the 3 dot face to start accepting the lower voltage and the single dots to start outputing the higher voltage. if it is how you say,.. i wonder how my house evaporated those 2 times long ago.