Energy Cell Discharge

[Darkwood71]

I just noticed that my redstone energy cells are discharging when I have them in my inventory. Has it always worked like this? I never noticed it before, so I wanted to check with others before submitting a bug report.

[Retagin]

Are they powering something in your inventory or on you like power armor? I don't think they will do this, but otherwise the energy cells should not be discharging.

[Darkwood71]

Are they powering something in your inventory or on you like power armor? I don't think they will do this, but otherwise the energy cells should not be discharging.

No, they're just sitting in my inventory.

[plowmanplow]

RS energy cells' stored energy will be consumed by power armor. I'm not sure if this is intended, but that is how it currently works.

[Darkwood71]

RS energy cells' stored energy will be consumed by power armor. I'm not sure if this is intended, but that is how it currently works.

That was it exactly. I never noticed it before. Thank you kindly for the information.

[King Lemming]

I believe that MPS is getting tweaked a bit so this won't always happen.

On my end, I'm adding batteries meant for this and may change the functionality of the Cell so that MPS doesn't see it as a valid item for draining.

[plowmanplow]

Portable batteries, machine upgrades, puppies... what's next KL? World peace?

[cerevox]

That actually seems like a pretty useful function. Redstone energy cells hold a lot of power. Perhaps we could have an upgrade to the MPS to allow it to drain from different types of batteries so we could configure it in-game? Or is that even feasible? Or is that in your department, so to speak?

[Retagin]

Perhaps we could have an upgrade to the MPS to allow it to drain from different types of batteries so we could configure it in-game? Or is that even feasible? Or is that in your department, so to speak?

. On the flip side of that, would it be possible for MPS to charge the energy cells?

[King Lemming]

Already possible if MPS wants to do it.

[Teraku]

Is there any way to change how much MJ the Powersuits cost to recharge? The cost is stupidly high at the moment, I need 2 full Redstone Energy Cells to half-recharge my suit. The built-in solar panel upgrade is actually more effective than 5 Magmatic Engines.

[plowmanplow]

Teraku: it's an option in the config.

D:"Energy per MJ"=1.0

The higher you make that, the less MJ you need to charge. I've left mine alone (and I typically lower something things like that <glances strongly in the direction of the default 25% energy loss through tesseracts>) since I figured if you want to have millions of units of charge in a MPS there are ways to manage that in a balanced way.

[Coco12570]

I was tinkering with the modpack (Trying to find a config with the tesseract loss) and found the D:"Energy per MJ":1.0. Powersuits never charged so easily

[Teraku]

Teraku: it's an option in the config.

D:"Energy per MJ"=1.0

The higher you make that, the less MJ you need to charge. I've left mine alone (and I typically lower something things like that <glances strongly in the direction of the default 25% energy loss through tesseracts>) since I figured if you want to have millions of units of charge in a MPS there are ways to manage that in a balanced way.

Ah, that's great. Thanks. I'll definitely crank that up to 2 or 3 to start with.