My issue with MFFS

[Blue]

I like the idea of force fields but i can never seem to power a simple small shield. i have a force field projector with a simple for back front left right +5 scales and +5 for up and with 2 dearivors with quartz in them there capacity is at max i have 3 frotron capacitors trying to drain my 2 dreivers to power my very small force shield and it cant even do that.....


how power hungry is this mod or should i say how inefficient is this mod at transferring power. thats what i think the issue is

sorry bad spelling its getting late and frustration with trying to power my force shield

 

[InThayne]

Similar problem here. The dang thang won't take any power. I built up a huge power generation system just for the supposedly hungry MFFS and it only draws 71 RF/t using the meter. My lil force field just winks out as soon as there is enough force transferred to fire it up. I guess if I put 100 coercion derivers in there....
Figured I'd just wait until they got it sorted out.

 

[Blue]

i remember having issues in 1.5.2 i had plenty of power 200 some turbines but again for a force sheild it never seemed to be able to transfer the power fast enough to the force field projecter

 

[Samueldmm]

What are you using to transfer the power to the block that powers the forcefield?

 

[Blue]

i have a max steam boiler with nine atomic science turbines feeding two drivers. as i said in frist post the drivers are at max power in there internal buffer but 3 frotrons capacitors is not enough to drain those two and send power to the force field .

 

[Omegatron]

You could try speed upgrades in the capacitors.

 

[MigukNamja]

It seems like it's not getting enough power, but it's actually just very slow without upgrades. I think everybody goes through the same experience.[DOUBLEPOST=1388276558][/DOUBLEPOST]

Similar problem here. The dang thang won't take any power. I built up a huge power generation system just for the supposedly hungry MFFS and it only draws 71 RF/t using the meter. My lil force field just winks out as soon as there is enough force transferred to fire it up. I guess if I put 100 coercion derivers in there....
Figured I'd just wait until they got it sorted out.

Spam not necessary. Put capacity and speed upgrades in your capacitors.

 

[KingTriaxx]

You can also put speed into the Derivers to generate more Fortron from the incoming power.

 

[budge]

You can also put speed into the Derivers to generate more Fortron from the incoming power.

Unless I've encountered a bug, I haven't found this to be the case.

 

[KingTriaxx]

I blame being tired and slightly sick on my inability to make it clear: I think it will draw more power and thus produce more fortron if it has speed upgrades. Rather than producing more fortron for the amount of energy. I might be wrong though.

 

[budge]

I blame being tired and slightly sick on my inability to make it clear: I think it will draw more power and thus produce more fortron if it has speed upgrades. Rather than producing more fortron for the amount of energy. I might be wrong though.

I understand, but I haven't personally seen them do that either. Speed upgrades in derivers seems to have no effect at all for me.

 

[KingTriaxx]

I will give it a test then and see. I might be imagining things then.

 

[budge]

I hope you prove me wrong. It would be nice to use fewer derivers.

 

[InThayne]

It seems like it's not getting enough power, but it's actually just very slow without upgrades. I think everybody goes through the same experience.[DOUBLEPOST=1388276558][/DOUBLEPOST]

Spam not necessary. Put capacity and speed upgrades in your capacitors.

Ok, so just one deriver and upgrades to the capacitor- will try that. So you just put one simple dynamo running at under full power (71RF/t) to operate the whole shebang?

 

[MigukNamja]

Will probably need more than 1 speed upgrade. I recommend building a stack of 32 or 64 speed upgrades and trying a few at a time.

As for power, that largely depends upon the size of your setup. 1 Dynamo at full power might sustain a mid-size MFFS shield, but it's probably not enough to build/re-build it that fast.

 

[InThayne]

Yup, speed helps the capacitors for sure. 12+ seems to be my sweet spot, anymore and it actually has diminishing returns and drains faster- odd.
Adding another deriver (and using another whopping 71 RF/t) helps even more- I guess its just balancing from here.