Posts by Jivix

Quote from LostCoder

Hmm, copper and tin much frequent than iron (about 3 times) and used much less than iron, so it is easier to get. On other hands - it needs machines and energy, but cost for full set is not bigger than stack of charcoal in generator which is again pretty easy to get. Besides people usually build a solar arrays pretty quick, so energy is actually not a trouble. And than usually comes nano suit. I might be wrong, but it seems that bronze armor lasts much longer than nano suit.
And GregTech has a mortars which are completely cheaper than machines.
I think solution may be to nerf bronze armor and add full set of composite armor. It also will answer to question - why the bronze wrench is wearing out in compare to electric wrench which is made from iron.
Just my vision.

P.S. As we talking about bronze, I have a question - why electric tools have a (probably) bronze hulls, but we did not use bronze in recipes?

I was popping in to Support to see if a new beta came out, but I found this thread instead. Here's some fun facts I've learned about Alblakas' armor balancing choices since IC1 and beyond:

-IC2 bronze is stronger than bronze-age bronze, due to an effective alloy blend. Modern day bronze is FAR stronger than bronze-age bronze, because we have tools that allow us to find the best molecular blend of metals to make the strongest alloy.
-Metal armor IS stronger than nano armor now, but that is because electric armor is rechargeable. You have to put in some real work to get a new set of metal armor.
-If we go into the fictional debate between fictional bronze and fictional iron, then I would like to argue that Alblaka's fictional refined iron has a higher carbon content than fictional MC iron, which is why the electric wrench does not break down like crappy fictional MC iron tools. Not only that, but it was made with a better fictional manufacturing process.

What I'm trying to get at is Alblaka made a mod that lets us feel high tech - nowhere in there does it say he has to be realistic, especially when it comes to balancing it so people can enjoy playing together in multiplayer.

*slaps on a pair of shades and strolls off*

When I first tried this mod out (shortly after addons became available for IC2 on these forums!), I knew it had big things in store. One cannot simply add a fusion reactor to IC2 and be satisfied.

When I read Kentingtons' last 3 posts my head almost exploded with excessive awesomeness. I just hope it doesn't turn out to be too ambitious and end up like the Aether mod (whose developers vanished without a hint of notification). If you can pull this off, Kentington, you will have many props from the many thousands of players who play IC2!

I take it our first moon trip will be incredibly expensive fuel-wise (because we won't have high tech fuels yet), which means our carry weight will be very limited. I'm guessing for food we'd be starting out with space rations, then with a basic moon base set up we'd be able to research hydroponics to get a slow but existent food supply without having to fly back to Overworld.

I'm just dying to see how everything will come together. I don't think I've ever been so excited in my life.

Quote from cpw

Please check the files repository. There you will find a 1.4.6 version, for IC2 1.112

I can't check it because the forge website is down. Very frustrating when I'm trying to update my server!

Why does everyone host on a single website? If the website goes down everything goes KABOOM.

Ok, I'm always game for space stuff, but this definitely feels more like an addon rather than part of the core game (even though I'd love it to be).

But in part that's just because of my ridiculous desire to be put in the most unforgiving environments possible (I play Terrafirmacraft, if you were wondering). I'd like to have to build a spaceship (a FULL SIZE one, too), and have to wait out the days in travel before you get there. Hope you built your spaceship out of good materials, because you might clip a random piece of debris going 85% the speed of light! If you get sucked out (or are just really curious), then you'll find the lack of gravity in space to be very disorienting as your ship continues on without you. And then you'll die, of course.

Those who can wait out the journey and complete it safely can be rewarded with sights unlike anything they've ever seen before (assuming they haven't played Mystcraft, of course). Perhaps some new blocks with novel uses, yadda yadda, for me all the fun is in the technology and the construction and the boring journey in which you try to amuse yourself for an in-game month. ok I'm done.

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You can suggest 'building tools' which can double as weapons. F.e. Mining Laser and Chainsaw are primary utility, but work for fighting as well.

Industrialcraft needs a more... err... well, it needs more explosions, anyhow. For mining, of course. Nobody ever uses explosives to kill things, because that is just... not how people do things, am I right?

Anyways, moving to the main event, the thing I'm posting about. The rocket propelled mining launcher is effectively an effective iTNT (woops, i meant ITNT, dammit Apple) dispersal device capable of placing detonate-on-contact ITNT to wherever the player decides it shall go. It would be a simple system, and not require EU to function. It is to the mining laser as the jetpack is to the electric jetpack. It would also be more convenient than having to stand next to short-fused ITNT.

The launcher itself would be a simple assembly of reinforced iron and a circuit (no battery necessary). The "capsules" would be as such: 1 ITNT, 1 gunpowder, 4 paper for 1 capsule. Then, either craft the capsule and the launcher together to load it, or hold the launcher in your hand and right click to load a capsule from your inventory.

The contribution this would make to mining efforts everywhere would be enormous, and greatly appreciated. We need an(other) effective mining tool!

I already tried pushing for Lead a long time ago when I joined the forums. I don't think it's going to happen, because Alblaka really likes his rechargeable tin batteries (come on, not even Lithium???).

I'm glad Gregtech is here to add more ways to destroy our environment, because if we can pull it off in reality, we should be at least be able to pull it off in a game as well. Can we dump radioactive leaded waste into oceans to reduce the amount of fish? Because that would be pretty funny.

*using coal generators for too long turns clouds gray and lowers them to surface level, smoggy days : /

Quote from Viper8797

i would like it, but that's basically covered by drills and chainsaws... Indestructible (chargeable) and rather fast....

Maybe the tools would have special bonus. Like the Pickaxe, when you right click, removes 3X3 blocks in front of you, or the sword, upon right clicking, would activate a effect in which, the less health the wearer posses, the more damage it does.

I don't like the sound of it. It would cheapen the IC2 experience. Might as well make iridium and depleted uranium into bullets and shoot them out of a Laze-O-Tron 5000.

Quote from SpwnX

We are not talking about trees that were planted to farm rubber, but the ones generated along the world.

I still think you're playing Industrialcraft wrong. You should be either A. mining, B. killing things, or C. building things. I don't see where rubber tree textures come into play at all.

(I do, but where's the fun in that?)

1. This is a good idea, since zombie meat is already leathery and tough.
2. Mob farms are going to always be good as long as you have drops from mobs. Have you not seen the potential from grinding blazemen and having chests full of blaze rods?
3. I like cows, and I like leather, and I like books. So yeah, more leather is nice. There's really no reason not to.

Crops are so time consuming it's painful. My friends and I had a massive farm going for a RL-week, and we never got to the higher tiers of plants. Perhaps we're just bad, but we all have agreed that the fact that the systems' genetics are mostly random stucks pretty hard.

Oh look, I crossed nether wart and reeds and got pumpkins, makes sense.

Isn't the coloring system automatic now, as a color overlay? I thought the reason most mods today reuse the diamond texture because it IS the diamond texture but recolored to something they chose (not MSpaint but in code). Am I wrong? if I'm right then this would be as easy as allowing the painter to be used on additional block types.

Please allow us to color grass! I want to make a weird blue lawn for my weird blue house.

How about implementing this, but instead of getting an enchantment for pumping 6.4 million EU into a piece of bronze, you get a critical short that results in a massive explosion? #researchisbad

1. Different levels of charge, gives creepers different color. The standard glowing blue will be the lowest tier (of course, it wouldn't be fun otherwise).
2. Single-use batteries turn creepers bottom tier, RE-batteries do second tier, and power crystals would do the red-tier-I'm-scared-explosion that would be real fun if you hate your friends (or are jealous of their base and you want them to scratch their heads wondering why their base suddenly selfdestructed).

Come on, it cost a full diamond? Do YOU want to disappoint your customers? I didn't think so. Let's continue:
3. For more fun (and pointless waste of resources), right clicking a creeper with a lapotron doesn't appear to change the creeper (he looks normal), but in fact he's charged up to the top tier!
4. Now that you can make the most destructive force in the game up to ten times more destructive, you should do the following: Potion of Speed II, potion of strength, potion of invisibility. Don't have too much fun!

*thread bumped due to enjoyment of posting in it.

how about.... Buildcraft pipes pumping water into reactors to cool them? *ducks from incoming*

"And then Hobbycraft set down his pickaxe and dropped to his knees, praying the holy Alblaka would bless him with the Industrialforce. But Ablaka, not being the merciful sort of deity, decided that his idea was bollocks and dropped the Hammer of Banning upon him..."

also, it's spelled gist.

One of the things that makes Industrialcraft an industrial mod is that it has nothing to do with anything mystical whatsoever, no potions, no enchantments, just cold hard industrial unforgive-ness.

Now, you could suggest an addon for some strange device that happens to specifically affects the node/vis/flux of an area, maybe something like an Ozone regulator or something (something like that might conceivably reduce Flux in an area at an expense of power, enabling you to do more magic stuff).

Why do your rubber trees still have leaves on them? I think you are playing Industrialcraft wrong.

I want an experimental system where just knowing which ingredients to add won't necessarily give you what you want, and whatever you make won't be immediately named for your convenience.

Say you want to make a poison, so you add a rotten eye and some soul sand, but instead of poison you got something that makes you hungry for brains (or whatever) when you try it. Later you find you need a mixture of 7% rotten eye and 75% soul sand to make a powerful poison. But the beauty of it would be the lack of a name, so you could then go to the Anvil and name it "Health Potion II".

And it'd have to be dye-able as well, perhaps with the addition of industrial-strength coloring agents. Also it would be neat if you could add solidifying agents to the chemical mixtures to turn them into solid capsules or pills, so you could carry a full stack (or bottle) of them in compact form.

*suggests implementing diabetes so people have to take insulin if all they do is eat sugary food like pumpkin pie and cake.

I smell an IC2 addon coming. (I can't tell you how much I'd like to do this, but I am only a beginner with java and I don't think I could tackle it without months of investment).

+1 for generating mob eggs. I'd like a solar-powered UUM-to-creeper spawner

Hmm iridium tools...

Iridium is incredibly heavy, so any hand tools you would make would be unwieldy and slow. However, iridium is damn near indestructible, at least in IC2 terms. Sooo.... Heavy Iridium tools with 8,000+ uses, speed of stone tools?

If you're making a pickaxe, why does it need a lapotron crystal? Does it use power to glow or something stupid like that? Or maybe it generates resonant frequencies to shatter stone?

I can't imagine wasting my iridium on a basic tool that isn't [close to] indestructible.

Hey, I'd love to play with this mod, but it doesn't seem to work with IC2 .111 update. I'm using Forge 6.4.2.448 (the most recent version for 1.4.5) if you need that for any reason.

Heck, might as well wait for 1.4.6 Ic2 before updating...