my personal setup for full setup: Solar & Kinetic Generators, 5x Elite Generators, Tool & feet set at 50% bat power, everything else at minimum. with this I've found myself never having to recharge even with all the bonus features. it works wonderfully!
Question about modular power suits
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I've got full energy shields, glider wings, autofeeder, one max elete battery, and a jetpack at i think about 80% setting. It seems to do everything I need it to.
Edit: Using the t3 chargepad with the range upgrade is great. I have it in the lobby of my base, and just walking over it causes the field to activate and recharge most if not all of the power in the suit.
Edit: Using the t3 chargepad with the range upgrade is great. I have it in the lobby of my base, and just walking over it causes the field to activate and recharge most if not all of the power in the suit.
I don't have any upgrades installed in the chargepad besides the range and some basic storage upgrades. You still need to stand on the pad to first activate, but then you can walk anywhere in the field. It will keep the field up until everything is fully charged or you leave the radius. Are you standing directly on the pad?
Yes. They're plugged in, they have power, and yet my suit doesn't charge.
What modpack are you running?
Edit: Ah! Are you using the Lapotronic charge pad? I have not tried using the weaker chargepads on my suit, i expect that might affect what types of internal suit batteries the chargepad can run.
In general, MPS start somewhere between Nano/Quantum and (in Ultimate modpack) shoots past Quantum when fully upgraded. Granted you'll be investing a lot more into MPS than Quantum if GT is turned on.
As long as sum weight of all your MPS pieces is below 25kg, you won't be encumbered. And the amazing thing is that with the tinker table you can readjust your settings without too much difficulty so it's possible to optimize your setup as you add/replace your armor with more MPS pieces.
The sprint assist does make travel a bit trivial as you're able to zip through the world (esp. when paired with an advanced electric jetpack).
As long as sum weight of all your MPS pieces is below 25kg, you won't be encumbered. And the amazing thing is that with the tinker table you can readjust your settings without too much difficulty so it's possible to optimize your setup as you add/replace your armor with more MPS pieces.
The sprint assist does make travel a bit trivial as you're able to zip through the world (esp. when paired with an advanced electric jetpack).
About 4x as much. Right now it's probably not worth it because of the advent of the Advanced Nanosuit body that gives you jetpack flight. Wear that around the other MPS pieces for infinite win.
The MPS gives you access to a lot of amazing side features and non-flight mobility very early even in gregtech. You are crazy to not build the legs and the feet at least even with GT on. But, it takes a long time to reach superflight. We've talked on the other thread about it, and weirdly MPS considers flight to be endgame. Given IC2 has had electric jetpacks smack in the middle of its tech tree for a very long time, I'm confused on why; but that's what the designer has said and so it shall be! Too late to argue now
.The most basic dedicated MPS layout w/out an external jetpack is 4 pieces, put a battery in the helmet along with night vision and the breather. In the chest, just get the glider for now. In the legs, get sprint assist and jump assist and kinetic generator and advanced plating. In the feet, fall compensation and advanced plating. Tadaa.And if you want flight, swap your relatively bare-bones chestpiece for an advanced or ultimate jetpack. Your decision to put the battery in your headpiece means that IC2 tools will not drain your suit's battery but rather whatever chestpiece you're wearing. And the kinetic generator's output substantially exceeds the walking costs; to the point where you can run around to recharge. This is a relatively inexpensive build even with GT recipes turned on. The most onerous component is titanium and also a lot of silver used for the wire.
Woah... never heard of this before. What mod adds this? I guess its only just been added since its not in NEI.
You'll get it when your pack updates Gravisuite. I have to update it for our server pack this weekend and I am going to laugh with nearly full armor pre-quantum, with jetpack flight at MPS speeds, rocking a cool million EU on my back, with a second independent power supply that is perpetual for movement and hand mining.
I use full armor with 4 Elite Batteries configured so that I'll have exactly 25 Kg (leaves me at something around 12.5 MJ, which is more than enough) and Energy Shields for armor (no battery on my Power Tool because that's kind of a waste). I also have a Solar thing on the helmet and no Kinetic Generator. This setup has been pretty comfortable for me, and I don't think I need anything else (other than future modules, keep'em coming MachineMuse!).
And since we always compare similar things in this forum, I'd say that QuantumSuits are the OP thing here. Sure, they take Iridium and time to make, but the helmet protects you from any status effects and the chestplate protects you from all damage. Hey! Also I'm disregarding GregTech because everything takes forever with that on. By the way, without GregTech, wouldn't it be faster to make a full QuantumSuit than a MPS with all top tier stuff?
And since we always compare similar things in this forum, I'd say that QuantumSuits are the OP thing here. Sure, they take Iridium and time to make, but the helmet protects you from any status effects and the chestplate protects you from all damage. Hey! Also I'm disregarding GregTech because everything takes forever with that on. By the way, without GregTech, wouldn't it be faster to make a full QuantumSuit than a MPS with all top tier stuff?
Man, the quantum suit is a pale shadow of what MPS does for damage reduction. Several things that kill you through a quantum suit are stopped by MPS. And the status effect reduction is really not as good as it used to be now that it doesn't stop hunger. The MPS helmet is better in most regards.
Sure, but that's not a fair comparison. Most people build the quantum legs and feet first because of the radical mobility boost it gives you. MPS makes that part much cheaper on all recipes, and does it better. The real competition is the Gravity Suit, and that's where things get more nuanced.
What things exactly? The only way you can die with quantum armour on is if it runs out of charge (or the void). MPS does protect you from the void, but isn't that a glitch anyway?
By the way, gravisuit is added by gravisuite not GT.
Swim in lava and see which one lasts longer.
Interestingly, it seems that turtles do a bit less damage when hitting an MPS target. Not sure how that works, but it does in all my packs. Probably the same glitch as the void. A maxed out MPS can eat more nukes in the face, too.I am not sure why you would tell me what I already knew, have already talked about, have pointed out earlier in this thread, didn't bring up, and is entirely applicable since GraviSuite is part of GT packs in FTB. But I have double-triple-checked the box next to, "GregTech is not GraviSuite." In 4 colors of pencil and 2 colors of pen.
I just thought of something: is quantum still enchantable? If it is, that could be something else (albeit glitchy) in favour of it.
Also, does the weight of the power tool actually make any difference? I tried it in & out of my inventory - didn't notice any difference.
Finally: Am I the only one with everything maxed out on my MPS - including armour & batteries? Because the whole suit weighs 70kg or so now, but I don't want to dump any batteries or go eith energy shields because at the minute the solar helmet + kinetic generators mean I don't use any power at all, i'd like it to stay that way
Also, does the weight of the power tool actually make any difference? I tried it in & out of my inventory - didn't notice any difference.
Finally: Am I the only one with everything maxed out on my MPS - including armour & batteries? Because the whole suit weighs 70kg or so now, but I don't want to dump any batteries or go eith energy shields because at the minute the solar helmet + kinetic generators mean I don't use any power at all, i'd like it to stay that way
Seriously, chuck most of your batteries. 2 elite batteries will give you all the power you need. You do not need maxed out batteries on every piece.
If you had done a bit of research you would find that this has nothing to do with MPS at all and in fact is entirely a Gregtech feature which causes all machines on the power net to explode whenever one of them is broken incorrectly.
As for everyone else: yay
it makes me very happy to see people learning how to use them and having different choices about the final product.Thanks for the reminder.
*immediately disables all the gregtech config settings which make stuff explode*
*immediately disables all the gregtech config settings which make stuff explode*