The electrostatic compressor responds to lightning created by mods like Psi, making cheap pressure
TheDeviantCrafter opened this issue ยท 2 comments
Minecraft Version
1.12.2
Forge Version
14.23.4.2759
Mod Version
0.7.8-295
Describe your problem, including steps to reproduce it
Several mods have the ability to summon lightning. Psi's trick:smite is one example, but there are countless others. When these mods trigger a lightning strike on an electrostatic compressor, it treats it as if it it was a vanilla lightning strike.
This generates huge amounts of free pressure at almost no cost.
Any other comments?
From what I can tell, the electrostatic compressor waits for a vanilla lightning bolt to appear close by and then generates power. This means that it creates power if a mod triggers a lightning bolt.
Immersive Engineering's lightning rod machine takes a different approach. Instead of waiting for a lightning strike, it has a small chance every tick to emulate one. When it does, it generates a bunch of power, and then creates a vanilla lightning strike.
To the end user, it looks like a vanilla lightning strike happened, but mods that trigger lightning strikes won't affect the machine.
Yeah, this is a balance issue for sure.
We're actually considering removing this generator entirely (see a0a615d?short_path=373ba1e#diff-373ba1ed262a383f19bf3f73ee889565, point 15), but making it more like the IE lightning rod is a possible option.