Hey there, Recently, the processing times of a bunch of GT Machinery were simplified. This was a good step towards needing less machines and towards a more coherent and less laggy game experience. However, there is several ore processing Recipes from GT in the Centrifuge, the Industrial Electrolyzer and other Machines that need to be tackled. Several recipes output Impure Dust or Pure Dust forms of the ores that are COMPLETLY UNUSABLE TO THEIR NORMAL PURPOSE unless you run them through an Industrial Centrifuge. All of these Recipes take 30 seconds plus. Thats right, 30 seconds plus in an Centrifuge to get a single Redstone dust from Impure Redstone Dust. Again, you can do jack shit with Purified Redstone Ore or Impure Redstone Dust until you centrifuge it. Proposal: Reduce all Centrifuge Processing times for Ore outputs that cannot be used to their normal Purpose drastically
I don't think the Thermal Centrifuge can be edited. It's not a GregTech machine. It's from vanilla IC2. If you find a config for it please post. But I'm pretty sure the processing time is not configurable. DERPEDIT: Sorry, mis-read as Thermal Centrifuge. Anyways, I agree that processing times should be reduced for the INDUSTRIAL Centrifuge for some dust processing.
Clearly what we need is another dust type. Greg can call it tainted dust, and require processing in a chemical reactors. I've been saying it for ages, and clearly Greg has been thinking it. processing ores in two or three steps, and with only a few outputs is foolishly simple, when there could be a bunch of steps, and dozens of ores, dusts and piles to deal with.
I think the Industrial Grinder should output sludge rather than dusts. It uses water, you would think that there needs to be additional processing steps to evaporate or collect the ore material from the sludge. After some quick googling, this is a simplified version of copper ore processing. This page explains the process in depth. I just realized that there also needs to be a better delineation between low grade and high grade ores throughout processing. Greg already uses a simple system with the crushed, purified crushed, purified, dirty, and regular dust. To make it more specific he could use a single item with purity percentage that gets higher the more you process it. Then he can define other recipes that require certain material purity for crafting.
You guys should suggest that to Greg but in the meantime, is there any talk of the processing times for these machines being lowered?
