Not directly. The closest you can get is magma crucible -> geo generator, but that's only a 1:1 ratio with cobble.
Not directly. The closest you can get is magma crucible -> geo generator, but that's only a 1:1 ratio with cobble.
Actually it's quite lossy with cobble. The only thing that is 1:1 is netherrack at the moment. And yes, both geothermals and magmatics need a bit of a balance pass - I have it on pretty good authority that magmatics are getting one, so I would not rely too much on them.![]()
Can Railcraft boilers take BC energy?
Actually it's quite lossy with cobble. The only thing that is 1:1 is netherrack at the moment. And yes, both geothermals and magmatics need a bit of a balance pass - I have it on pretty good authority that magmatics are getting one, so I would not rely too much on them.
They'll still be useful, but there's a somewhat incorrect perception that they're by far the best engine right now. Unfortunately, perception is everything (even if wrong), so they get a nerf to wake people up.
Can Railcraft boilers take BC energy?
Steam Turbines are a lousy way to generate EU, since you are eating up 99 Steel every time you have to remake the Turbine Rotor.
Once you establish a nether presence, EU production is no longer a problem. Ever.
Conversion loss does not equate to a stack and a half of iron gone up in thin air. It is, bar none, the WORST way to get EU out of MJ.Right. You don't design EU generation around the turbine. You use the turbine to spend excess resources. You use any of the converters to burn off excess whatever (like that tank full of biofuel). The reason they are lossy conversions is to respect the fact that a system should benefit from being on its native energy net, and the two nets don't scale in parallel (which is why the "based on 1 unit of coal" conversion mods suck).
Not really. I was running my massfab on a series of geothermals in my nether base back before FTB came out. It was a neat self-contained system which did not require Mystcraft portals nor Railcraft. It just pumped from the lava lake directly into the battery of nine geothermals to produce 180/t for my massfab.Surely you see the problem, then. Unfortunately, as much as I want to give the geotherm gen the evil eye here, it's not entirely fair - because in a closed IC2 map the abuse of the resource wouldn't be an issue. It just needs its output and / or recipe balanced to be in line with other mods, when playing with other mods.
Not really. I was running my massfab ....
Hmmm... how is netherrack a 1:1 conversion?My (admittedly not always flawless) math tells me that spending 8,000 MJ to make 20,000 EU is a 2.5:1 ratio. Whereas with cobblestone you're spending 20,000 MJ to make 20,000 EU. How are you counting it, if not like that?
Geothermals can be nerfed easily, if that's what you desire. Just open IC2.cfg, you can specify their output there.
And people go back to compact solars producing 512/t?In my opinion Geothermals don't need any nerfing. Pumps should simply not work in the nether. At all. Just like water can't exist there we can find some 'reason' why a pump would not work (too hot perhaps) and this would solve the issue with 'free energy' that Nether-pumped lava creates.