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    [Ultimate] [CC] [RP2] [SS] Need some help with a build idea.

    Well the OP did say "using computercraft" so I can only assume sweet touchscreen builds are on the OP's mind. I did say use a rether module! :D
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    [Ultimate] [CC] [RP2] [SS] Need some help with a build idea.

    If you have a T5 spawner, you don't need to worry about cabling or anything at all. You can leave the lights on 24/7 and things will still spawn: such is the power of T5 spawners. The very easiest build is to use a wireless redstone block on the spawner for the inhibitor signal, and then use...
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    IC2 Addon [Tools/Armor/Recipes This Update][Functionality Next]

    Protip: code more talk about coding less. Otherwise you will never actually finish any one part. I should have just finished my PDP-11 emulator mod before talking about it here. The unenlightened masses whining about "yet another language to learn" discouraged me mightily.
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    ICBM not in Ultimate pack ?

    I have very little hope Redpower2 will ever be upgraded to 1.5. And even if it does, the point of this pack is to explore other options, and more balanced options at that! Redpower2 stuff is notoriously overpowered because of the mechanics of blutricity. The only thing from RP2 I cannot easily...
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    Applied Energistic Storage Room!

    Your AE setup has KirinDaves baffled. It's photogenic, but it's like an order of magnitude more expensive thanit needs to be. Why would you use so many ME Storage busses! Why not replace 63 of those barrels with one 64k cell and still have more capacity than if you upgraded all of them barrels...
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    ICBM not in Ultimate pack ?

    I have a "swap IC2 for UE" version of the Ultimate pack. This of course means you lose Gregtech, but you get a ton of other stuff. It's very good. My opinion is that IC2 feels positively dowdy in compared to UE. Some of its game mechanics are slightly better (the nuclear minigame springs to...
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    How long will you wait before just jumping to 1.5?

    I am just sad I can't get a few rad 1.5 things from my mods. Although vanilla hoppers are really good. In fact, it's funny how good they are because they make Gregtech's automation look asinine. Power transfer on one face is not worth the extra cost for those things when vanilla hoppers exist...
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    best ways to get started in a new world

    I am so glad someone else remembers this game.
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    How long will you wait before just jumping to 1.5?

    Well actually: the analog logic sensitivity is kinda new. I mean signal strength was there but I've yet to see a mod that used it, or output varying signal strengths. Everyone viewed the diminishing signal as a problem to be fixed. Right. Well this is our problem too! Powersuits (my favorite...
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    What FTB pack do you use and how do you configure it?

    I understand the game balance, but it's too bad. Because the only way to make the mining feature of the tool as fast as IC2's and Gravisuite's tool (or even an efficiency V diamond pick!) was to enchant it. Otherwise it's substantially slower. I hope in the future we see other ways to increase...
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    How long will you wait before just jumping to 1.5?

    I'm sitting here doing my weekly minecraft server upgrading and modpack maintenence for my FTB DW20 and our private custom server and the question has come up, "How long will we wait until we just say "screw it" and jump to 1.5? Actually, a pretty big sum of mods we use are converted over now...
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    Flux in the End? (dimension)

    Whovian's proposed never-go is a lot like: The door to my favorite coffee shop. The insanely dark node I accidentally placed my advancingcraft base next to. So many cows have died to flux effects. :(
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    Flux in the End? (dimension)

    Do crystal capacitors and clusters work? If so, you could shove vis back into the world. You could even set up an automatic rotation system.
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    I made a lot of good money off of perl back when I was in high school. But you might wanna investigate Ruby 1.9 at some point. Now that the dark 1.8 days are over... Oh and PLT Scheme has some lovely text processing too.
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    Soul Shard mod and Equivelant exchange OP together?

    I dunno man. I think it's telling that we're all starting to talk about ore tripling like it's not only acceptable but inevitable. In my DW20 game I too experienced obscene iron consumption; many projects took 7-8 stacks.
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    I assure you: I have no interest in anything like that. I'm just happy I get to talk about software and when I say, "Continuations", "formal methods" and "monads" the entire room doesn't glaze over and put on an irritated expression: just most of it. But, you know... it's impossible to write...
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    I hate to keep ragging on you... but I AM COMPELLED TO REPLY. Sound your nerd whistles for none to hear. Sorry, but this is not correct at the hardware level anymore. Compilers (and even processors) use the difference between call patterns to help inform cache prediction, which is one of the...
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    The real theoretical problem with GOTO is that only very specific uses of it are composable, and it's very easily to deviate from that path. It's a lot like how lockless algorithms are in principle possible to write by hand, but very few people have the discipline necessary to accomplish that...
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    "perror and the endless nightmare."
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    Computer Craft recipes, overpowered?

    And also checked exceptions are, politely, the dumbest idea ever. And also all languages that use the C++/java exception handling mode are inherently broken, brittle, uncomposable, and impossible to design around cleanly. And also we solved this problem in 1991 with Common Lisp's conditions and...