Generators

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These will produce RF power for all of the power machines which include Power Furnace, Super Furnace, Allow Smelter, and Magnets and Anti-Magnet. I'll start with Solid Fuel generator and create the solar and lunar generators. Solid fuel will come later after I figure out how to play with liquid inventories such as tanks.

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I've got some stuff figured out for the creative generator. I've figured out how the menu will work for the generator.

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I fixed a small bug with the Creative Generator where it was syning with the server and client. It required me to add in public methods for the EnergyStorage to set and get values from it :)

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Alright I got some of the textures done for the Generators. I'll work on the rest of them when I wake up.

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Alright I'm back to doing the generators... I've been thinking of what I want to do with them. Right now I'm working on the Solid Fuel Generator. What I want to do with it is make it change how much energy it produces depending on what fuel you give it. The run ticks doesn't really matter I'm think of making it run for a select number of ticks. But change it energy value with how rich the fuel is.

• Energy Production is Variable
• Fuel Ticks is constant. Energy Value for fuel. Minimum is 10 RF/t to 1,000,000 RF/t depending on the fuel. All fuel has a constant 1800 Fuel/t

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Hmm, I've changed my mind on it... I'm thinking of going the safe rout and use upgrades. For generators they will take two upgrades (for exception of solar and lunar gens)

• Energized Speed Chip (Speed Up Grade)
  • energy rf/t * 2^(numSpeedUpgrades)
  • fuel f/t - 2^(numSpeedUpgrades)
• Fuel Conversion Chip (Makes fuel more efficient)
  • fuel f/t* 2^(numFuelEfficientsy)

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I started experementing with the creative generator to see how these 2 new concepts would work. 1) is speed the other is a strange concept known as insanity.

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I think I've figured out a ton of stuff from working on the creative generator and stuff I'll be implementing with the other generators that are based on it. I mean tonight was a very good development sprint.

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I've decided to make this into the final issue for Milestone Alpha 2. This needs to get done... I've moved most of the issues around so I can focus on this issue. The only generators I will be working on for this issue are as followed.

• Solid Fuel Generator
• Solar Generator
• Lunar Generator

Liquid Generator will be create in the next Milestone which is Alpha 3.

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Max burn time for the Solid Fuel Generator is going to be 2048 ticks. So to burn through the generators feul will take about 2 minuts.

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Time to get back on the Solid Fuel Generator....

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I think I got the solid fuel generator complete. I'm going to test it and determine if it works.

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Alright :D. I got the Solid Fuel Generator finished :). There are a few issues but its at the point were it can because for a release :D

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Time for solar generators, and lunar generators. Then I'm finished with milestone alpha 2

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Alright I'm going to start working on solar and lunar generators....

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Alright after a ton of viguras testing I've came up with how the solar and lunar generators will work. If there is a rainstorm then the power of them is reduced. If its night than no RF and the opposite for the lunar generators. For insantiy it will take either solar panes or lunar panes depending on the generator.

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I'm getting restarted on tackling the solar panel. Then I'll tackle the Lunar panel then release :D

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Alright figured out what I'm going to do with the solar panel. I have it were you can add Speed Upgrades to it plus adding solar pane's will add to the Solar Generators Insantity. Which is cool :D

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Alright I got the solar panel pretty much done. There are a few bugs I'm going to work on tomorrow. The hopefully by Saturday I'll have a version out for the public.

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Alright I'm back on this. I'm going to focus on polishing my generators. What I'm going to need to do is make the gui look nicer plus get started on the Lunar Panel.

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Alright now its time to simply pretty up the gui then it will be a completed build.

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Alright its is done. Time for the lunar panel... Which is going to be simple and different from the solar panel.

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Alright I'm back on top of the Lunar Panel...

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Fixed an issue that it was returning 0.

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Finished most of the generators logic and create the lunar pane for the upgrade section of the when I get off work I'll finished the Lunar Panel. And get all the names finished and released a new version on curse.

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Alright I'm back on top of this and will finish this generator tonight :)

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Alright I think I finished the generators. Yes yeah!!! :D now its time for the two contious tasks to make sure that the stuff is ready ;)