I've been playing on 8bit FTB Unleashed and all the admins are convinced both of these cables cause loops, but a few of my friends and I believe this to be wrong. Does any one know for sure what, besides BC3 conductive pipes, causes loops?
IC2&AE Cable looping?
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IC2 cables themselves don't cause loops, only if they're hooked up to an energy storage that outputs into the same line of cables. Making a small loop of them accidentally due to compaction is fine.
AE cables... if your admins think that these cause loops, you should probably ask the owner of the server to hire new admins. You can loop them all you want in whatever way possible. It'll never cause issues.
AE cables... if your admins think that these cause loops, you should probably ask the owner of the server to hire new admins. You can loop them all you want in whatever way possible. It'll never cause issues.
So in an example like this: http://imgur.com/OSP4ggv
There would be no looping, right?
I have been telling the admins that Glass Fibre Cable and ME Cable cause no looping, and I've even been threatened to get banned because I insisted it.
There would be no looping, right?
I have been telling the admins that Glass Fibre Cable and ME Cable cause no looping, and I've even been threatened to get banned because I insisted it.
Your server needs new admins. With, ya know, basic knowledge of the game.
It is physically impossible for AE to loop and really, really hard for IC2 to loop (you have to do it intentionally pretty much and even then there isn't lag or anything). Same goes for Energy Conduits I believe.
It is physically impossible for AE to loop and really, really hard for IC2 to loop (you have to do it intentionally pretty much and even then there isn't lag or anything). Same goes for Energy Conduits I believe.
in old versions of ic2 loops used to be a bigger deal.
i think your admins on 8bit just aren't up to date on the back end changes that have been done to ic2 since the 1.2.5 days
helpful link outside http://wiki.minecraft-techworld.com/wiki/Cable_Loop
i think your admins on 8bit just aren't up to date on the back end changes that have been done to ic2 since the 1.2.5 days
helpful link outside http://wiki.minecraft-techworld.com/wiki/Cable_Loop
Plus if you have to run two IC2 cables going in and out, you can paint them two different colors to prevent connections.
midi_sec, I am fully up-to-date with IC2. I known its issues since tekkit as well as 1.4.2 FTB Beta. Otherwise, many servers wouldnt be having issues with mods right now. Alot are being fixed, but many like IC2 still have its issues, whether if one see it or not.
That setup in that picture would not cause a cable loop as it would all go to the MFSU you have there, there is actually no looping occurring there.
A lot of long time modded server admins/ owners however have a deep ingrained fear of looping cables. As there was a time where you could get infinite EU by looping the cable through a EU storage device. This caused duplicate packets of EU allowing it to essentially fill it's self but this also caused lag as the amounts of packets cycling through it got to the point of being infinite, actually no the server crashes before that.
As far as I can tell that was fixed ages ago, but it still seems that old hat admins are taking heavy handed precautions based on prior experience. I mean I know it's a case of once bitten twice shy but you don't really need to be shy when whatever bit you lost it's teeth...
Also I have never used it but I was under the impression UE handled it's power calculation in a clever way that cable loops can't happen? And BC pipe could never loop as they work different and had/ have the tendency to explode before they lag anything.
A lot of long time modded server admins/ owners however have a deep ingrained fear of looping cables. As there was a time where you could get infinite EU by looping the cable through a EU storage device. This caused duplicate packets of EU allowing it to essentially fill it's self but this also caused lag as the amounts of packets cycling through it got to the point of being infinite, actually no the server crashes before that.
As far as I can tell that was fixed ages ago, but it still seems that old hat admins are taking heavy handed precautions based on prior experience. I mean I know it's a case of once bitten twice shy but you don't really need to be shy when whatever bit you lost it's teeth...
Also I have never used it but I was under the impression UE handled it's power calculation in a clever way that cable loops can't happen? And BC pipe could never loop as they work different and had/ have the tendency to explode before they lag anything.