Neowulf

I'm still getting a decent FPS boost (2x) with optifine in 1.6.4, but it does have a lot of problems. Only the lite version loads for me and it causes so many render bugs it makes more like thaumcraft 4 really hard to play.

Good help is so hard for an unappreciated genius to find. Yes, I'm a big Girl Genius fan...

Heh, nice. I can definitely see some fun in this mod. Is this going to include minions at some point?

I like the idea of having to form a hydraulic power loop with the pump and turbine blocks. Chance for some fun too. If the loop is broken while powered up the pipe could spew the hydraulic oil out the end as a particle emitter, taking buckets of oil from the system's reserve and placing them in the world as source blocks. If the pressure is high enough it could even cause damage to entities in the spray line and break through soft blocks like dirt, wood, and glass.

The tone of your three posts here and the thread title leads me to believe you feel entitled to such a feature and someone is doing you wrong by not providing it. What you're looking for is impossible. You're asking for something that determines what any particular block combination of the billions possible intends to do over a given time. And you want this without having to dedicate the actual processing power needed to do it. At best you could modify the very core game code and let it run at faster than 20 ticks per second. But considering most people have problems running the game AT 20tps you're looking at most likely less than 2x speedup. Not exactly the "8 hours calculated in an instant" you're asking for.

The force directory change feature was added to bypass the DRM implementing mods out there that target users of modpacks based on the install directory. Like gregtech crashing the client if the word "technic" is anywhere in the install location. I don't know whether it was needed or not in this case, but it's not just an anti-drm feature. It's also really nice if you want to install a pack to an external drive and carry the same install to multiple computers. Keeps your worlds close by.

I assume this is why? http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/account-removal.43156/ More to the point:

The biological construct known as the egg came well before the chicken. Even before the hard shelled egg laying dinosaurs that predated chickens, the aquatic creatures that all land animals evolved from most likely spawned as current fish do. Depositing soft eggs on the ocean floor for fertilization, incubation, and hatching. Though if you mean a chicken egg, then the chicken came first as a genetic mutation of a similar bird animal. The egg the first chicken hatched from is not considered a chicken egg because a chicken did not lay it, and therefor is an egg belonging to the ancestor bird that a chicken just happened to come from. Not that it really is an age old question. The eggs you get in the grocery come from chickens force evolved through selective breeding by humans in the last century or so. What most people would consider a chicken now wouldn't survive a generation out of captivity due to human intervention. Much like corn and the most popular species of bananas.

The whois gives a gps area something like 50 miles wide. And since that means something like a million people in that area, I don't feel too bad announcing it. If he had been in bumfuk nowhere I would have made it more vague. Would never give out the actual IP info. As much as this guy think's he's the victim here instead of the instigator, I have no desire to make him an actual victim.

Notice your new avatar? That took me 7 clicks. An IP ban takes 3. You are not the first little kid who thought he was above the rules and could ignore a banning by changing IPs. Atleast the last guy had enough skill to actually hide himself across the world, you just have other houses to get banned from. Since you continue to act as if "your mom is ilegal you incredibly unhelpful cunt" was a perfectly rational response to dwwojcik you get to be my first kellering of the new year. Congratulations. If you continue acting like this you'll see first hand just how pointless it is to try evading a ban around here.

1: Not really. It's the difference between an idle thought and an outright accusation. If I felt certain you were using a cracked launcher I'd have just banned you for piracy and ended this thread. 2: Yes, because san diego is so far away... IP records are kept for both account creation and post creation. And yours recorded telnor.net and cox cable's san diego network. 3: No, it's an excuse. One that doesn't fly here.

Quickest way to kill any chance of a thread progressing to whalebox quality is to chant "whalebox!" at it.

Stop acting like 10 year olds gawking at a schoolyard fight. If you so desperately want to keep tabs on the thread you can just hit the "Watch Thread" link below the search field. 1: No, I said your aggressive response to the idea of you serving out the official game files (AKA, piracy) was similar to how cracked launchers users react when called on it. 2: What's the weather like around Tijuana? Protip: As Munaus explained, we do have IP information and can ban you completely. 3: Attempting to pull the language barrier card doesn't work when you've already proven your grasp on the english language with your attack at dwwojcik. 4: That label is a warning Valkon gave you on Dec 18 and has been there the entire time. Which you already know since the warning includes a personal message sent to you telling you

Maybe we can get around that with fancy words? Remove every instance of download and replace it with something else. "Obtain the launcher of Technic, m'lord." "Choose your launcher, my liege." "Initiate launcher transference." "Adopt a launcher today!"

Evidence that you haven't even bothered to read what I wrote. Bravo. What part of "yes I believe linkbacks to be perfectly fair" are you having trouble parsing? I have to wonder if you came here for this very purpose, to argue a bit then make a show of giving up in the face of the perceived villains who steal your work and cackle about it. Please tell me who is claiming they made your mod? Amaxter sure isn't, and that majortaylor guy looks more like a bad translation job that needs fixing than anything sinister. And I love how your two examples out of 180,000+ packs are supposed to be evidence of rampant Snidley Whiplash behavior emulation. That looks like an attempt to defend your fellow "oppressed modders" to me. How about this, I'll tell you something I kept secret because frankly I didn't feel the need to divulge it. I'm a programmer myself and I've been making mods for games since 1998. I don't know how old you are, but my guess is you were learning your ABCs at that point still. My first mod was for the game Starsiege: Tribes, a fun open world shooter with jetpacks and deployables. It was inspired by both a quake2 modification called weapons factory (which was a copy of team fortress for quake 1) and one of the most popular mods for Tribes at the rime, Renegades. Renegades was fun, but the developer was very jealous of his stuff so even though mods were created with simple human readable text scripts using a javascript-like language, he implemented an obfuscation scheme by removing every newline and bit of whitespacing he could. Now, after getting my mod to a semi-playable state I requested some help testing it. One response was from someone reportedly on the Renegades team, looking to test it out. I tossed him the download link and called it good. A month later it came out that the Renegades dev was stealing parts of code from other mods and claiming them as his own. The guy wrote very little of the actual mod, mainly just implementing other stuff then tweaking it to fit his own vision. That's why the guy had so jealously protected his source, so others couldn't find out he stole from them. Guess who found a large chunk of his code in the newly released Renegades update? Funny thing is, I've always been a proponent of open source and frankly had no problem passing around my code to other mod devs to help them out. At one point the developer of the other major mod at the time, Shifter, wanted to know how I did remote controlled vehicles (a feature everyone wanted but no one got going) and we figured out there really was only one way, which we had both separately developed (co-opt the vehicle mount code for a set of flyers to create a 2 way link, then redo the beacon deployment code to instead trigger viewpoint and control change to the linked vehicle). The point of this is you're blowing up at a modpacker, a guy who puts mods in a zip file, and treating it like the guy stole your whole source and slapped his name on it while screaming "I made this! It's mine! All credit goes to me!" This is so far removed from real code theft it's not even funny.

I assume you're refering to guideline #2 "Insulting modders or permissions in your description or pack title is strictly forbidden and will result in a permanent ban from the system."? Please explain to me where his views on modpack permissions are in the pack title or description. As for why people are siding with his view instead of yours, please continue below. First off, yes I believe linkbacks to be perfectly fair. Infact I believe his intention was to create them, since the techimon licensing&permissions tab does state "Credit is due to the modders. Click the inks in the description to see their mod pages and maybe even donate to them if you're feeling generous!" which is not the default for that tab (default is completely empty and therefor hidden). I dare say that if you had lead off with "Can I atleast get my mod in the list setup as a link to my page?" or something similar, then the whole discussion would have gone in a vastly different direction. You would have come off as a completely reasonable person asking for something that should be provided as a general kindness to the users anyway. But you didn't. You lead off like a gradeschooler on the playground. Here's the thing. You may not intend for your words to be interpreted as I stated, but they are. If everyone can play as long as they do some action which you claim is inconsequential, then why require it at all? Tjhe most logical explanation is you want control. To put it in a game perspective: If you've ever played halflife 2 then you might remember the cityguard at the beginning commanding you to pick up a can he knocked over and throw it away. That's not just a simple tutorial on grabbing stuff, it's mean to drill it into you that these guys are enslaving you. That inconsequential act reminds you that you will do as he says because he's in charge and you are powerless. Funny you should mention gregtech. Greg just added the code out of the blue and demanded kaker beg him before the mod would be allowed in a technic pack, but no one was even considering using it to begin with. The only that came of his rambling is better awareness of the force directory change feature, which is a great way for someone to install packs onto secondary drives or USB storage and save space. As for diplomacy, if you're trying to be diplomatic you're doing a horrible job. A good diplomat doesn't open with the stick then offer the carrot if they ask nicely for it. To be perfectly clear. You are not the champion of modders, you're a little baron trying to explain to the dirty peasants why they should be thanking you for the privilege to bow to you and being utterly confused when they start sharpening the guillotine. Not that there is even much of a cause to champion. The two examples provided are one misunderstanding and one neglected to actually provide promised links. You seem to think there's rampant villain mustache twirling as everyone here plots to steal your work and exploit it for fame and fortune, when the reality is pretty much "I think this mod is pretty cool, if you agree you can toss a couple dollars towards the author as a thank you." Ugh, it's too late to be writing this.

When it doubt, Standard.

I don't think the guy is trying to claim he wrote the mod. He's just making the same mistake that generates dozens of bad threads in modders metropolis here on the boards a month, thinking modpack and mod are interchangeable. Consider "this is my first modpack and soon i will have the GTA V mod here too, possibly with the flenix mod if i can". It reads better and a small mistake like that is understandable when you consider the rest of the poor grammar. The kid is probably in the 10-13 age range. Also notice in the discussion, arthur_g17 refering to the modpack as a mod. Platform doesn't support hosting a bare mod, only modpacks. And about your previous problem with Technimon and Amaxter. You lead off by threatening to weaponize your code and target him directly, and yet you expect civil discussion on the matter? I don't think you quite understand what what you were doing when you made that comment. Your stance on blanket permit/deny translates to "Adhere to my wishes and you will have my blessing. All I require is a token gesture of your subservience to me." which, as I hope you can understand, ruffles just a couple feathers around here. And you added to it by threatening to single out and punish he who would not obey. There will never be a report modpack button. At the very least because complaints cannot be vetted for authenticity, so any such system becomes a troll plaything.

Haven't played any of those, with GTA5 being the only one I really want to.

I'd say break the FORTH pipe into an Automation Pipe and a Forth Processing Unit block. That way the automation pipe can be setup as a computercraft and/or opencomputers peripheral and controlled by those, or by the built in forth processor block. Pipe ideas: Liquid Packetizer module- Allows a liquid pipe or liquid storage block to connect to an item pipe network, turning a bucket worth of liquid into an item. Liquid item will only consider liquid packetizer modules in output mode as valid destinations and will not enter normal item storage. This would allow sending items and liquids to a destination block with a single pipe connecting to it (example water and coal to a steam dynamo from TE) or multiple different liquids without clogging the system (example water and fuel to a BC combustion engine). Entity compressor/decompressor block- Do you think you could swing shifting the players viewpoint (like Morph does to a small creature), disabling their clipping (so they don't suffocate), and locking their movement to that of an item traveling through the pipes? Yeah it's a bit wacky, but pipe roller coaster transport through a base would be awesome.

Most core concepts have stayed the same (class structure, making blocks do things), but the very start of a mod has changed so dramatically between 1.2 and 1.6 that if you tried making a mod from an old guide and tried to fix the errors you'd never make it work. At this point it's best to just use those guides as an example of what to look for in an updated guide. Probably a good idea to check the latest comments in the threads for users posting updated information, like links to new guides. Or just check here: http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Tutorials

They can be blocked quickly, true. But they need to be reported as well so the malware serving ads can be removed, instead of just letting them get around the blocking by re-serving the same ad by telling the automated system it's a different one. And some of these are blatantly malicious. When I turned off adblock the platform frontpage kept trying to redirect me to a different server.

I poked at this thread in the mod section, should get some attention. Though Munaus is correct, the admins are all partying for the holidays. And even when they do act on it it will still take a little time for google to act on it.

Yeah, calm the fek down there billy. No one is getting paid to do any of this, and none of the guys you're raging at are even moderators here. So despite the work they put in they don't get the fun perks like my ability to give you a special title befitting your behavior.

In this case I do believe you mean Omaha, Nebraska.