Posts by Snoochy

Quote from Ranakastrasz

The thing about the old industrialcraft, You got, what, 40k EU per uranium bar, right? And 4 bars per ore, so 160k EU per uranium ore

But wait, We get only one uranium bar per ore, which, by default, with an absolutely horrid reactor, gives a mere 1 MILLION EU, or about 7 times as much. And it goes up to a maximum of 5 million per....

he has a point, i didn't use IC2 back then apparently. but yes, 1 uranium bar can yield like 7million if set up right. right now i run a reactor with 6 uranium cells and it outputs 28million EUs over 2 hours.

so basically something like IC used to have called the Cable Obscurer or something like that? except you specify what it changes it to? that would be interesting in making them alittle more hidden/ compact, or we could make it so you can spray cables with CFoam and then paint the CFoam to look like other blocks and still make it explosion and fire resistant.

Quote from FarFarAway

Really like the idee about increased Energy Consumption in exchange for Automation of charging. Whether its instant or a whole floor charging you while running on it. Even better then the charging bench addon

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yeah, i'm kinda leaning towards the instant "teleporter drain" style of recharge at 150% energy cost cause it'd be ALOT less strain on a server then setting up a room of 30 "Static Wireless Energy" recharging blocks. if you had like 3-4 people in that room i'd imagine it's cause lag similar to 100 solar panels.

Quote from GregoriusT

The Quantumreactor was already suggested by me and needs Quantumcrystals to start running.

that is a very different idea / concept though, the Quantum Reactor most people think of uses Fission Energy and basically works like a contained nuclear bomb burned off by lasers if i remember right (half asleep, sorry if incorrect) not a "magical cystal" found randomly in the ground that was sent by Apolo to grant the cabapabilites of 32 solar panels in a contained state underground :p

well if your not worried nor making UUM then why are you so worried bout energy problems? you can run your average daily producttions with only 10-20 solar panels and 1 MSFU, and a stack of lava cells would last you like a week, and if you had a geothermal plant in the nether then 1 lapotron would run a normal base function for a sginificantly long time. and if you are using MassFabs, then just make you matter in the nether and bring it back in UUM form.

i'm with minjboogje, i'd fire up my 4 CASUC reactors and fill up my Energy Wall each week and watch it go to town. ALSO MIJNBOOGJE!: i watched your reactor videos, not to shabby, however i noticed something that i'm not sure if you were aware with your MassFabs, if you have 6 MSFUs all cabled together and run 1 cable to a MassFab, then you take that cable and wrap it around the MassFab so that it touches all 6 sides of it then it will cause it to work exponentially faster and can pump out a full stack of UUM in just a couple of minute, and you can just use a cable splitter, destory the main cable, or let it fill up, to turn it off, that's how i run my 2 Mass Fabricators, i just let them fill up and pull the stacks out when i need them to produce more. i also have 1 that i have constantly running and feed scraps into though from my cactus/quarry recycler.

p.s. what's easier/faster, 4 nuclear reactors that ouput alittle short of 9,000/t with virtually no server strain, or 9,000 solar panels to crash your server and make everyone hate you? lol

for the love of god, that was alot to read, and i honostly didn't finish it, luckily i'm at work and basically got paid about $20 to read this post, lol.

on another note, i like some of these ideas but don't care to alot of the changes to current items, like the carbon plates, Quantum Armor changes, ect. unless you make the quantum chest store 1million, and having an enitre quantum suit provide 100% protection instead. it would be nice if IC2 had a Power Converter built into it for Buildcraft that way i could use the BuildCraft Builder to re-construction my factories and make my industry larger specially if the Power Converter Mod owner can't keep it up to date i'd rather not go learn java just to make it myself.

lol, if i found one of these Veins i could just put a BuildCraft Quarry over it and smile as i watch it all get harvested into my warehouse or make a small compression factory next to it to compress it all into blocks for transport.

i think both of these ideas have been suggested in seperate posted, basically Alblaka (if i remember right) is implimenting the ability to use CFoam ON Wires like they are scalloding and then can be painted for explosion resistant cables. and the luminators had their own huge post recently and those are going to be completely re-worked, but one of the suggestions was to be able to take a luminator and "wrap" it around a wire to make a Lighted Cable, kind of like the Rope Lights they sell around Christmas Time.

Quote from Frantic Fanatic

Can we combine these with beds and make Metroid Prime style Save Spots?

well if we go with the (instant) Charging Plate idea then all you'd have to do is put then along the side, or under the bed perhaps. if we go with they Area Tesla Coil Charging Styled idea, then just put alot of them around your bed and they will shock the hell out of you and charge your armor while your laying in bed.

Quote from Offboss

Space Based Solar Power is an actually viable idea. I am in debate in my high school and we have a good 500 pages of evidence just on SBSP, it is a real idea and can work.

they have already been doing it, they collect solar energy and convert it to microwaves, then shoot it to a collection dish on earth and use that to generate power.

Quote from BrickedKeyboard

Implementation matters :

The pumps should be able to detect when the block of water it is pumping from is supplied by an infinite water source (the easiest way to do this detection would be to have the pump remove a block of water and see if it returns within ~10 seconds or so).

If the pump is being supplied by an infinite source, it should NOT actually remove the block. This saves on graphical and network lag in SMP if you had an array of dozens of overclocked pumps.

Instead, it should just supply water to the compressor as if the pump had removed a block, but not actually do it.

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i think if it is constantly running this Source water check then i might actually cause even more lag. what i did to solve this is i downloaded buildcraft and used a snowman and obsidian pipes . i put the snowman over a pipe and blocked him in and then went to town on the snow block with a drill, be sure not to hit the pipe. and it gets a few hundred snowballs in under a minute. then i pump those to compressors, saves me alot of energy too.

i think this mod already currently has enough problems with server and client PC strain, i'd rather them solve those problems first before moving on to projects that would only worsen that problem such as these moving light sources. however: this is a interesting idea but has been done by several other mods.

we could set this up as a wrench removal item i suppose by setting up a texture or a red dot on one side, OR it would be mined with a diamond drill and would take as long as obsidian to harvest.

Quote from mijnboogje

agreed, neon green colour? wth dude... what have you been smoking? uranium?

and the overal fallout idea has been suggested before and denied by alblaka..

neon green is just a signification of radioactive matieral or a radioactive area. incase you were unaware, uranium is a Silver to grey metal that oxidizes into a black material. in real life uranium is never green, the only thing that causes green is the radiowaves and floresent lighting combined around uranium. so yes, fallout should be a glowing neon green/yellow color.

agreed, i'd liek to be able to feed Super Fuel into my Furnaces for automated production with buildcraft.

honostly i think gold cable should be alot better, gold is the most conductive metal on earth with a really high tolerance and is far more effective then that is silver and copper, we just don;t use it as such due to it's rarity, typically we only use it these days for Nano-Cuircut boards. so maybe if we go with the Nano-labratory idea then we could use gold for those. also at the moment gold has plenty of uses, specially if a player is using Buildcraft, since it's used for the only decent Conductive Pipe and used alot in long distance transport lines, so i think using Gold in the Cuircuts is a bad idea, specially for something that is such a high demand item. maybe if you add the next Tier of machines mentioned in a previous thread in regards to making a "Quantum Machine Block" then maybe make the next level of "Nano-Cuircuts" require gold ingots.

the exploding part is a bug i believe if your inventory is full. so make sure your inventory isn;t full when you open it,

so... have you ever tried to open a toolbox that's in your arms while holding a mining pick, an axe, a hoe, a few rocks, and a couple of tiki torches? go try and do that in your garage, i'm sure the toolbox will fall out all over the place.

but on a serious note, i agree, a toolbox should not go shooting out all over the place even if your inventory is full, specially on a SMP server cause people might try to take your tools or they might fall into lava.

Quote from Rick

Ye but that was most of the time done on a totaly different level than current ic2 panels. Current ic2 panels are just like todays solarpanels (through i heard somewhere they upped the energy gain from solar panels dramatically recently). That or they just got a small part of their energy from it. Its just wrong when you see energy to matter conversion powered by solar panels....

indeed, they did recently make solar power significantly more effective in real life and uses basically the same technology as an ink-jet printer. so large solar panels for home and commercial use are now very much possible at a reasonable cost. althought i must agree, almost no amount of solar energy would normally be able to create raw materials, specially something equal to a 400lbs block of gold. unless MAYBE your extracting chunks of the sun itself :p could you imagine a Geothermal Generator Space Station on/in the sun? :p

well, apart from using "cheats" and building walls from materials beyond their intended use, iridium would be a nice way to not only store my exccess iridium, but to put it to good use.