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  1. Vauthil

    Rotarycraft Tier Question

    Oh yes, that's right, Gas Turbine exhaust is messing with the ambient temperature and capping it at 1400 C. Get creative with your solution. You have Tier 4 magnetostatics, if anything. ;)
  2. Vauthil

    Rotarycraft Tier Question

    The Friction Heater, unlike most other machines, seems to work best when you're matching speed/torque as closely as is possible. Slap a gearbox on that puppy.
  3. Vauthil

    What's new in modded minecraft today?

    This is the thread you're looking for for that stuff. This is a news thread, not a discussion thread. Further replies re: Microsoft's purchase of Mojang will go to /dev/null.
  4. Vauthil

    60% of top threads are now spam.

    That's part of what I refer to in speaking of "human verification questions". And yeah, having those barriers to entry are more permissible on a project site like a wiki. Granted, some days I'd really like to institute some barriers to registering/posting here... but that's on the order of...
  5. Vauthil

    60% of top threads are now spam.

    It's helpful. The first thing I see when I log in is the top left corner of my screen, where there are counters on things in the Moderation Queue (i.e. Server Promotion threads that need approval, usually) and Reports. If I log in and see a handful of Reports, I'll just go straight to handling...
  6. Vauthil

    60% of top threads are now spam.

    You'd think so, but with the post delay function that's wasting a lot of bot time. Questions are easy because it's just one more routine to add in the sequence, making the bot have to idle for X minutes posting at intervals before attempting a URL post is problematic as bots for SEO tend to run...
  7. Vauthil

    60% of top threads are now spam.

    I've spoken about this at length before, but I'll note some things again now. CAPTCHAs are regularly cracked and trampled on. Once an appropriate "firing solution" is calculated, they're easily circumvented. Build a better mousetrap and better mice will show up. That's life. The...
  8. Vauthil

    Buying Minecraft From Mojang

    You're missing three zeros for it to even begin to be in the correct ballpark now. Running a reasonable (for a tech giant) multiplier on Mojang's presumptive napkin EBITDA in the previous year, $2 billion is a very fair offer (at least coming from finance pointyheads with the way projections...
  9. Vauthil

    Opinions on Microsoft buying Mojang

    Won't help if you did or didn't read the replies, Kezza, because after showing zero contrition and placing all the burden for civility on everybody else, you now can't answer for a week if you wanted to. Everybody else, back on topic please.
  10. Vauthil

    Opinions on Microsoft buying Mojang

    And you have no obligation to post. Thin ice warning: Keep it up with the bumptious bullcrap and I'll assist you in fulfilling that lack of obligation, because I am getting severely tired of playing sieve between what few substantive posts you are making and the rest of the dross that seems...
  11. Vauthil

    Fastest way to get magical crops

    Yes, I use the Lily/Ritual set myself with RotaryCraft fan harvesting. It can scale quite well with a healthy LP supply.
  12. Vauthil

    skynet is becoming self aware

    I think an understanding of how this actually works may be in order. These spambots aren't enterprising scouts who have decided FTB is "the market" for them; the spambots are the result of a webcrawler script that pinged off the metadata on this site and went "oh, that's a XenForo install...
  13. Vauthil

    Open Server Derkcraft|Direwolf20 1.6.4|Open|Towny|Economy|New World|Mumble|Large Adult Community| 24/7

    Policy: One review, one rebuttal. These are not discussion threads. Make your points and move along.
  14. Vauthil

    skynet is becoming self aware

    Pretty much from about 7pm to 2am Pacific time every day there's a new one posting something every 10 minutes or so. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but they tend to be pretty consistent on the timetable. Flipz, Law, Jaded and I play whack-a-mole with them usually as they go so you don't see...
  15. Vauthil

    skynet is becoming self aware

    Yes, apparently that's what happens when some folks are out and about and I'm actually playing the new D3 season ladder instead of playing forum whack-a-mole.
  16. Vauthil

    Open Server DeVco |TPPI2 0.1.1 | Open | PvP | 24/7 | Pex | QuickShop | GriefPreventionPlus | GPPCities

    Reminder: one thread, one critique, one rebuttal. These aren't discussion threads. I'm going to let this post (and the other over in the other thread) stand as the critique. Devryb's reply in the other handles it fairly well I think. Somebody from staff can answer it over here as well. Any...
  17. Vauthil

    What's new in modded minecraft today?

    While this is all terribly interesting and I enjoy reading it because it satisfies my inner wonk, could you guys maybe start a thread elsewhere and go through it all there? This isn't a discussion thread, it's a news and updates thread.
  18. Vauthil

    Few Meteorcraft Questions

    Let help you out with articulating this next time: "I think that was unnecessarily impolite of you." "I'm sorry you feel that way but I think there's a gap in finding information on this topic and maybe we're just hoping for something more recent" etc. "You're a dick" not only escalates the...
  19. Vauthil

    Recent Events Discussion (RED) Thread

    GeoStrata has a version, Project: Red can be loaded with just the Core/Exploration modules, and there are a few other mods out there (like Geocraft here) that are made to specifically fill the gap if those aren't sufficient.
  20. Vauthil

    Moving on up to 1.7+

    From what I've heard, it's projected that it'll be even worse in that regard and that the "stall period" is going to be pretty lengthy. A ton of refactoring goes into 1.8 last I checked in on that, and the handling of a bunch of stuff is once again changed and has to be accounted for. So, I...