We quadrupled it and it wasn't bad. I used it becuase a 4-thorium reactor was a nice long-running MV power supply that could be perfectly stable. But the essential flaw is there. Also, IC2 makes handling high power output somewhat painful. It's too bad that glass cable is so good and everything else is so terrible.
IC2 is slowly dying out ?
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We quadrupled it and it wasn't bad. I used it becuase a 4-thorium reactor was a nice long-running MV power supply that could be perfectly stable. But the essential flaw is there. Also, IC2 makes handling high power output somewhat painful. It's too bad that glass cable is so good and everything else is so terrible.
No! I don't know any Twilight except that cute little winged unicorn!
Oh, you DO have reliquary?
Dave, The more you talk about your pack, the more I like it. I men, Reliquary is awesome!
If FTB drops greg tech, I'm dropping FTB,
i don't support GT recipe changes, I need to construct a giant, Several day consuming (Real life no less) addition to my base just for all the BS required machinery, One thing that peeves me is the thing with the mass fabricator, I mean changing the recipe is one thing, But for gods sake let it EXIST, I don't CARE if it's more expensive, it could be an UPGRADE for the stupid matter fabricator for all i care
If i make the recipe to bricks use diamonds, I'm not adding anything, I'm just making building a brick house a colossal pain in the ass,
Also, MJ/T can suck it, If it needs MJ, I just don't use aforementioned machine, Or i pay someone else to deal with it. It doesn't give the same techy feel that i love about IC2, It just feels like dicking around with
lightly intricate redstone
There doesn't seem to be the same flexibility, Like solar and stuff, Hard to explain why i prefer EU/T really. I probably sound like a moron making this post,
Standby for opinion-based ballistic insults
Actually, I saw that earlier... Didn't pay much attention to it... For me that's not a big difference to compactsolars, but it seems it designed even worse...
A tip:
Good windmill design:
http://imageshack.us/a/img706/757/windmillx.png
Bad windmill design:
https://raw.github.com/Aroma1997/CompactWindmillsDist/master/images/windmills.png
Also, how much energy output UE advanced solars? ~5 KW? And fission reactor can output ~0.5 MW? So, that's 100 Advanced solars... And those solars are 3x3x3.
Yeah, I think that's good solar/nuclear design, even though solars might seem OP even in Mekanism.
Give it time, Although personally wind/hydro has always felt like tiny baby man power, Unless we get something really kick ass, Like some kinda thing i can build over a waterfall, I think some of the IC2 stuff could use some nice shiney rendermodels
They're OP in Mekanism because it ignores the config for the IC2/EU conversion ratio. In the bigger scheme of things solar is a convenience; you're better off setting up electrolysis stations if you want consistent power. And doing this requires a pretty big power buffer.[DOUBLEPOST=1368513099][/DOUBLEPOST]
I do not have a special 1.5.1 beta of reliquary, but would install it in a heartbeat. XR was one of my favorite mods from the DW20 pack. Sorry.
We do track MFR's betas VERY closely tho.
On the last 1.4.7 server I generated and used a constant 1000+ EU/t, through a single AESU. Pre-fusion, this required 70 diesel generators and a mixture of gas turbine and semi liquid.
...or, I could have built four solars.
That's the problem with EU generation.
Yep.
I've found a bit of middle ground in that I use Steam Boilers that go through power converters. Sure, it's stupid-easy compared to using steam turbines, but steam turbines are impractical to the point of hilarity. Fourty-five blocks equal about 360~ eu/t through the converters.
Power converters help a great deal with the flaws of EU generation. I would, however, like to see SOMEONE come up with a nicely scaled eu generation system.
Well, not taking into account IC conversion values, UE solars seem much more balanced in UE ecosystem than Advanced Solars are in IC... Or I am wrong?
Oh I understand, I just thought you don't want to include it. Even though I didn't use XR much, it seems pretty good and "stylish".
I had 6 36HP powering 32 magma crucibles...and none of that lava was being used for power.
70 diesels? My god...were you running, like, 2 mass fabs at once, or what? I can hardly think of a reason why you'd need over 1000 EU/t for anything else, outside some overlarge GregTech setup or a massive, overly-complex ore processing system. Or a truly gigantic AE network.
Nah, he had a lightning rod for all his UU matter generation needs. Which also left a glaring security hole into his otherwise secure matterfab room...
No. A matterfab in 1.4.7 can take an unlimited amount of EU (in 8192EU packets) so there is no reason to use two unless you're producing one uumatter per tick, which 1000 EU wouldn't even begin to touch.
The AE used roughly 200EU/t, the rest was used electrolyzing clay, centrifuging lava, distilling oil and blast furnacing the results of the previous.
Matterfabricator is ridiculously slow and requires ridiculous amound of power in GregTech. You need 8192 Eu/t to run it at maximum speed even in the last version of GT where it was limited.
That's why Steam Turbines are underpowered.
No. Much rather directly hook up my GT machines to my steam supply. With the newer versions, there are upgrades to do that. ^-^What, you don't want to make 82 steam turbines?
No I don't. It's OK to make 80 solar panels for something lowpower, but freaking turbines that cost 259 steel each? I don't like the idea.
Oh, and even 80 panels is bad, I think. Meh. I guess the only fair power source in IC/GT is diesel generator or something like that... Maybe nuke.[DOUBLEPOST=1368517956][/DOUBLEPOST]
Oh, and even 80 panels is bad, I think. Meh. I guess the only fair power source in IC/GT is diesel generator or something like that... Maybe nuke.[DOUBLEPOST=1368517956][/DOUBLEPOST]
That's what I dislike about IC power. The generators are either OP or UP, but almost all of them are stupid...I run all of my GT machines off of steam. Power Converters.
Hence why I don't use them.
I like EU, but I don't like the current sources of EU generation. Power converters was a godsend.