More Reliable "redstone"?

I'm playing with my server again, but keep running into a problem, namely redstone is painfully unreliable (especially when the triggers are a distance from the PC) Is there any option to get a more reliable wiring? (I've literally had a 2nd signal arrive before the first and some signals never arrive, which really screws things up)

Preferably NOT a huge mod like redpower where I have to dissable 100 different blocks/entities…

I've toyed with the idea of using multiple PCs and sending the triggers over LAN, but it gets ridiculously over-complicated…

Apparently Minefactory Reloaded has some sort of redstone cable. I never really worked with the mod before, so I'm not sure if they're what you're looking for, but I would look into it.

Kingdaro, on 03 July 2013 - 08:20 PM said:

Apparently Minefactory Reloaded has some sort of redstone cable. I never really worked with the mod before, so I'm not sure if they're what you're looking for, but I would look into it.

I looked at it and if needed will use it, but for my purposes it means dissabeling all but 1 block (or set of blocks) since my server is a fantasy setting (and CC is only being used to control the dungeons/events/etc)

Why not just use rednet to send the information you need between computers directly?

Lyqyd, on 03 July 2013 - 08:34 PM said:

Why not just use rednet to send the information you need between computers directly?

Because then I have to write 5 different programs (one on each PC) and make add the code to the recieving PC, when all I'm doing is registering a redstone signal (this is literally a "which pressure plate did the player step on" program) I *can* do this and if push comes to shove, I will, but it makes a ~1page program into probably around 10+ pages worth of code and using several PCs… (trying to keep it as simple as possible so there is less to go wrong)

Are you serious? All you do is change out the bit that listens for redstone input to listen for rednet messages and write a quick program for each of the remotes. It's maybe a dozen lines in the main program, worst case, and one other program of maybe 8 lines for the remote machines.

Lyqyd, on 03 July 2013 - 09:31 PM said:

Are you serious? All you do is change out the bit that listens for redstone input to listen for rednet messages and write a quick program for each of the remotes. It's maybe a dozen lines in the main program, worst case, and one other program of maybe 8 lines for the remote machines.

I'll have to play with it more. As I said in another thread I'm having a difficult time getting the networking to function (maybe I'm just too used to modern PCs) if it's really that simple it might be worth the extra trouble — especially if I can use the wirless modem and only need 1 PC in the world hooked to the AGI/Command-block (would really cut down on the risk of a player somehow cheating their way to an AGI/command-block)