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Posts by inucune
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the thing about writing code is the more you do it, the better you get at it. one big tip is Arrays are your friend. Java is a lot like C++. C++ is harder to work with (IMO).
the other nice thing about coding is that you can google what you want your code to do, and most people have uploaded stubs that with a little tweaking, will generally do what you are looking for. Please be sure to put credits for any code you grab from the internet in the comments (//blarg) in your code.happy coding.
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cooling towers are a waste. why not put the same method of cooling the tower uses in your reactor, swap the cooling cells for reactor exchangers, which would be cheaper than your cooling tower. if you need that much power, build 2 reactors, or wind up a mox w/ nuclear control.
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what is the point of cooling cells in ic2e? great if you want to use them, but most efficient designs just dump the heat anymore by staggering overclocks with exchangers or similar configurations. if cooling cells actually cooled(again), they might see more use. for now, they are obsolete.
so rather than rant and run:
have them accumulate heat as they do now, but have them spike the max reactor temperature by a great deal...with none of the 'oops' benefits of using plating. this would be a tradeoff between burning and cascade-failure for massive mox cell gains. and just to make sure, have them pull a chunk of their heat from the hull after they pass the normal plated threshold, so isolation isn't an op option. -
minimal stretching in peter's projection:
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Correction, you can download a car. The 3-D printer model of a Porche Cayman S model.
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the internet is leaking again.
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keep it small, come it at around 30-40(surface speed), when you see your shadow or the refection of the lights on your craft, drop to 8, try to land around 4-5, straight vertical. once you touch, don't bounce, but use SAS to keep the craft upright(ish). any craft that can land on the moon should have no problem landing on minmus, because what fuel you would use to get to the minmus is equal to the fuel you gain by minmus low gravity. note heavy science probe.
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given that a stack of coal, 8 flint, and a piece of obsidian can be made into a diamond, i don't think the recipe is too far off balance. i agree that maybe it should output 2, but i won't cry foul just yet.
i like the direction the experimental is going. some tweaking will be needed to find the best solution.
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politics, especially in legal form, will always ruin everything in it's path.
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in other news, a new study shows that valves have trouble passing anything bigger than 2.
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i have a similar questions concerning transformers.
i have a cesu feeding into a lv-transformer(step-down), followed by a batbox.
there is also a centrifuge between the cesu and the transformer.when the centrifuge is running full steam, i imagine it takes either every other packet(pulse? not sure what the unit is now), or half the currently transmitted one.
but when it is warming up, it only takes a very small amount of power.does the machine only draw power when there is a need for a full packet?
what does a transformer do with a packets less than it's input (ie, a 5eu packet from a wind turbine, or a packet transmitted by the cesu, but drawn from by the centrifuge)? does it buffer until it is a full transmittable packet? -
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strike the ground, day one: starting over
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i picked this up when my university was selling posters...along with the ester room.
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meanwhile, at IC2 Development labs...
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plasma launcher?
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another way to make rubber early game.
sometimes i have to cross many oceans and continents to find a single rubber tree.since they can be crafted without any machinery, maybe have 9 plantballs produce 1 sap (or resin, depending on if you want to create another item).
this would require sheers, and would give another reason for making plantballs.
this is not supposed to be easy, it is supposed to be a last-ditch option until you get rubber trees.
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that doesn't always save the machine... i've had the machine explode, then the wire between it and the power source 'smoke.'