Who should we turn to about energy?

As most of you probably know, we are planning to use IC2's EU system for electricity conduits and such, but as some of you may know RP2 now has Blutricity, which I am in the process of looking up. So, we need to decide, do we want to stick with the plan of using IC2's system, or use Blutricity?

Just hold on. I am in the process of writing a complete and detailed road map of Futurecraft. I think that with the way we are going to make energy work, we won't need or want external help. My version is simpler, and makes just as much sense.

Dr. Mackeroth wrote:

Just hold on. I am in the process of writing a complete and detailed road map of Futurecraft. I think that with the way we are going to make energy work, we won't need or want external help. My version is simpler, and makes just as much sense.

Neat, is it nearly done?

I'm curious about this too. Are you thinking about integrating IC's system?

It was proposed. I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about it since it would mean requiring industrialcraft with our mod.

Personally I would just use redstone itself, I don't see the need for another power source other than the fact that redstone doesn't have a 'power level' or can be 'generated'. It would be much easier just to add new redstone machines and spend more time working on more interesting parts of the mod. But if people's hearts are set on a new power system...

Well, the reason I think we'll need a new power system is because of how we plan to control certain aspects of the game, such as ship size.

I haven't had a chance to mock up how a power system would work, but a lot of discussion has been put into an EU/s system (Energy Unit per second) where you have a power generator producing X amount of power and each subsystem attached to the generator draw's Y amount of power thus you need Z number of generators linked together to provide enough power, otherwise modules start dropping offline.

Again, there's nothing set in stone with this so it'll be one of the things that needs a more technical specing out before any code is actually written to handle it.

Okay I see what your saying. And I agree, for the ship it would be necessarily. Then I guess the question is whether to use IC's system or another or making one.

the problem with this is industrialcrafts system almost requires you to be on a planet to use. the nuclear reactors require constant mining of uranium. the windmills require an abundance of them the only thing realy feasible is solars and youd need a giant clusterfuck of them pointing in every direction to keep your ship decently powered. the geothermal generators require constant lava and the simple generators require coal. the only two aspects of nuclear reactors that are even possible is nuclear and water but water gets you 1 eu/t per 16 mills. and nuclears would require you to have a very unstable breeder that could blow up your ship at any second. point being. industrialcraft would only work planetside. space would need an entirely new medium

I agree with Apokalypse on that one.

IC's system is somewhat flawed and isn't "of the future" like everything we're doing for this mod.

The premise for this mod is "its a FN future!". We'll need a reactor like system that can produce a good amount of power without a ton of back and forth, otherwise wondering the universe will be next to impossible.

Well if its the future how plausible is a wireless power system? A ship could just have reactors that power all of its functions wirelessly, which then makes the whole system much easier to implement.

But the whole power on ships question isn't ready to be solved until we actually have ships working. So the question is, what about planet-side power features?