Posts by Snoochy

Quote from Shalashalska

It's actually quite balanced. For the hv array, it costs 3 stacks of copper, 4 stacks of insulated copper cable, 4 stacks of planks, a stack of refined iron, plus an hv transformer and 512 solars.

yeah but even then it's as much energy from a nuclear reactor that takes up 6 slots and will explode after rought 37 minutes of use and then would have to be shut down for 113 minutes to cool back down, and nuclear reactors reaquire a constant fuel source, once a solar HVSolar Array is made then you can use that to exponentially increase your solar farm untill you get like 8 of those hv solar arrays and never have to mine or do anything for another day in your life, even with reactors you have to hunt down uranium since you can;t make it with UUM, and once you get enough solar panels even a Nuclear Reator would become trivial withough the 512 block space requirement blocking out all your sunlight. the cost of mass producing solar panels if eternal darkness over your house forever. better set up a good anti creeper defence if you get a 500+ solar panels

it has come to my attention that scrap boxes are fairly worthless and not even worth making. so here is my suggestion.

how about making the items from the scrap boxes alittle better and giving it a very low chance of getting uranium. since UUM can't make uranium and uranium. Since uranium naturally can be found in low levels within all rock, soil, and water, it would be nice to say recycle 50,000 dirt into scraps, make those into scrap boxes and hopefully get a few uranium ores.

all you need is your lapis and a massfab and then you can make everything you'll ever need, except uranium *epic sadface*

Quote from GregoriusT

= 48 Clayballs

= Matter even if it don't looks like it.
= I'm ever using them for Empty Fields on a GUI.

Looks like the C for Clay if you can't remember it (That Logic applies even to Lapis Lazuli and Iridium).

yup, as they said, clay is possible, looks like a C, i think just about everything is possible but Uranium and i think Glowstone but you can make glowstone from gold and redstone. UUM can make like 30 different items, you just have to toy with it, i kept a NotePad document for all my findings. i was amazed as to how much stuff i found.

so basically you are wanting a way to use Tin cables to power Luminators long distances without using Fiber Glass Cables, so you need the voltage lowered, i think a better suggestion would be a ULV Transformer, dropping 32 EU down to 5 EU. 4,000 EUs in a Micro-Box would drain faster then you might think, i'd stick with a batbox or MFE and just transform it down instantly with no cables. but as GregoriusT said, Alblaka is going to complete rework illuminators in the near future. so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

i think i'd rather just wait and see Alblaka's "Modular Flat Panels" for the Solar panels to eventually make them output X.EU/t (hopefully up to 512?) i'm kind of curious to though if he will do the same with wind turbines some how. also... can we turn the sound off of only the wind turbines? those 60 wind turbines cause alot of client side strain when they get to close to them from the sounds alone on top of my house and i rather appriciate playing with my sound on, i like the other machine noises

Quote from Lasergut

Yeah Unfortunately. I Just kinda wish IC2 had that experimenting feel to it, Trying to figure out what works right, as well as Giving Rare resources LIke iridum plates a use. Right now All a mass fab is good for is Iridium if you don't need anything else it makes. There is no incentive to keep producing UUM other than getting annoying resources easier once you got a quantum suit.

the UUM can make almost anything, i have discovered like 30 things it can make and has 2 mass fabs pumping out like a stack of UUM every 10 minutes and then i make that into all my materials, anything from rubber, diamonds, glass, netherock, ect. i basically never have to mine again for anything except Uranium to keep my reactors running.

Quote from mijnboogje

agreed, some more uses would be useful but since it can be used to craft glowstone dust... its an bit wel... useles i gues?

wel, more uses would be great. im sure al is working on it

i actually use most of my gold for glowstone and gold tracks, most of it for glowstone since there isn't a UUM recipe for it and i've already used a mining laser to collect almost all the glowstone in a 1,500 by 1,500 block area in the nether

Quote from pablovansnogger

we are trying to balance this mod not this mod with others.....

ok well even so, Gold Mine tracks, use a significant amount. as do gold cables and making Glowstone

Quote from passinglurker

cobwebs are transparent so solars would still be fire and forget they just look ugly

and as for alternatives not turning out enough power. that is why you have the alternatives make it easier make more scrap. to make it easy to reduce the cost of uumatter other wise a solar spammer would need even more solars or a auto-cobblegen(also laggy) but if you replace the auto cobble gen with a geogen that spits out waste cobble and EU some solar spammers may cut back cause their scrap source is supplementing their power.

it's better to make a huge NPC mob grinder for items to scrap, it's far less taxing on a servers ram.

Quote from Rick

Solars windgens and watergens are supposed to be set and forget removing that will ruin the reason you make them. The problems lies in the fact that the other energy sources dont provide a good alternative. Only CASUC reactors are a good alternative to solars when running a mass fab. But there aint no way you can get enough energy with charcoal or lava cells.

actually you can easily make some Geothermals and pumps and put them in the nether side by side to mass produce energy from the lava in the nether to make matter, or even use Buildcraft to make it significantly more effective. also wind turbines, if set up right, are almost as effective as solars and actually might be even more effective if set up properly. i used solar and wind to make the ultimate free energy array. problem was it's still as strenuous on the server as usual with those massive amounts of solar panels. and charcoal is an even more viable source now that you can use a rainforest and Super Trees for wood production.

so basically all you want to be able to use Empty Cells on Liquid Tanks from Buildcraft? sounds reasonable enough if you con convince alblaka to do it or convince Krapht and Sir Sengir to recode the tanks to act as a source, or maybe add a pipe that can drain out the tanks and place them on the ground and then place BC pumps over them to suck it up into cells.

Quote from Sebra

Do not want ranged "tools" in such knife.
So no laser, please.
And as a side note: Is it so hard to make common wrench for all forged mods? Let block know "wrench" behavior and turn to next possible position block, which do not know.

if you don;t want the Mining Laser in your Assembly then simply don't intergrate it into YOUR assembly.

Quote from Rick

I dont get why it should be blastproof. Through it would be nice if it gave of a weak light (but still preventing mobs to spawn) and of greenish look.

because it would be a see through and blastproof window for a Nuclear Reactor facility, and it since it would requires reinforced glass and uranium and uranium is denser then lead.

Quote from Sebra

Electric wrench use Mode key for itself. I mentioned it. May be not clear enough.

true, true... hmm, perhaps make it always use it's function at the cost of alittle more energy since this swiss army assembly would have more energy storage then your normal electric wrench, kind of like how it would use a mining laser only in Mining Mode.

Quote from GregoriusT

I'm only here because i'm bored from studying Informatics (actually the semestervacationpart is boring not the rest ). So i have nothing to do except minecraft, 9gag and TV. From all that i'm getting much Ideas for IC² so i registered here to develope them.

To belong a bit more to the Mainpost: Uraniumglass is good but i think Alblaka will not add a new Type of reinforcement.

lol, yeah, i'm glad i found these forumns or i'd be bored out of my mind. also, i'm just glad i'm still getting paid to "work".

main post: yeah i don;t think he will either specially something that is this "off-themed" i hope he adds my idea of Iridium Blocks used in blast proofing and making Iridium Machine Blocks for any future, higher tier, machines though, maybe he'll keep this stuff in mind for other possible indeas in the future whether it is reinforced, a now and improved glass that is easier to see through, or a "night-vision" recipie for a new helmet that allowed the player to see they world as through it was daytime without actually creating light. i know mods have done this before but i'm un-aware of how hard it is on the client's pc. i wouldn;t imagine i'd be to strenuous though.

Quote from GregoriusT

You should consider that crafting a nuclearreactor is expensive and a very high effort, because the most components are not stackable.

very true, but it also ouputs far more energy and faster then solars, it's easier to make 1 nuclear reactor then 40-60 solar panels, also giving people a small taste of how effective uranium is, even in a very ineffective manner like a geothermal generator, would hopefully entice them just alittle more for nuclear reactors in order to get 10 times the amount of energy out of each cell with minumal effort.

honostly i forgot how aggrivating it was to make my very first reactor because of the non stacking components, i forgot about that cause i have a fully automated Nuclear Reactor crafting facility thanks to buildcraft. i just throw in basic materials and it spitts out a few reactors and chambers 5-10 minutes later.

Quote from GregoriusT

Snoochy Are you the last at every suggestionpost or what?

lol, i work at a refinery that is in the middle of a Turn-around so i have very little to do for the next 2 months so i'm on the forumns a good part of my day, and since i like helping everyone balance their ideas and make suggestions and recommendations it's alot easier to keep track of which posts i have posted on if i just look at the most recent person that posted, if i see a name other then mine then it's easy to find, if i have nothing to say or someone dead ends the thread then i just leave it as is. but this is what i do all day.. forumns, IC2 and Buildcraft Forumns all day while i'm at work getting paid. lol

Quote from FenixR

Dumbing down a concept because people are too stupid to grasp it should not be an option.

Besides the problem isnt because the nuclear reactor explodes or anything, its because people DONT WANT to mantain it in the first place. People use solar because its a place and forget thing. Like someone said in a thread before, if you place a chance to solars of getting a dust/snow/sand (According to your biome) layer on top of it people would likely stop spamming those.

true i suppose, but some people just really are that stubborn. and i gree as to the sand snow and dust on them, i think everytime it rains it should coat them, and if your in a desert biome then have sand pile up like snow does. i can already find ways of having an automatic sweeping systems but still. and i don't think it's so much of a maintenance thing because you can easily just set up a single reactor with no chambers and throw in 1 uranium cell with 4 coolant cells and 2-4 heat dispensers and that'll make like 1million EUs per hours and you can just casually toss in another one with no worries about it ever exploding and you could make them as packed in as normal generators.

i think we should be able to combine Near-Depleted Uranium Cells and reinforced glass to make a blast proof Uranium Glass that would look like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F…lass_with_black_light.jpg

except obvious without the need of a black-ligh and maybe even have this glass provide light? it would be awesome to make a floor out of this stuff or maybe even an entire building.