Posts by mahkra

I have lightly covered this in other conversations headhunter but to state it bluntly, your attitude sucks and any of the positive contributions to you may contribute to the MC community are quickly over powered by your D-baggery. You are not encouraging participation, you are discouraging it. Contrast to the Direwolf and it's pretty plain, Direwolf often says "Hey that's awesome" You pretty much imply everyone else is an idiot. Not helpful at all.

It's completely understandable that people would want updates to thier favorite mod. it's also completely understandable that they may have expectations that it would be released by now for 1.0. It's not like no one knew it was coming and they didn't release several PRs to get mod authors the chance to see what was coming. I was pretty surprised frankly that 1.337 came out and it was just a bug fix, feature release. Spending a few minutes to explain why things are helps a lot and just popping off with "Your an idiot go back and re read the last 26 pages like I had to." just pisses people off.

That is unless of course you just want to create a community of elitist a-holes who circle jerk about how great they are and how the rest of the world is filled with idiots.

Yeah it's frustrating to say the same thing over and over. But if you thing just banning people is going to change that you are mistaken. But if you spend a bit of effort to explain why It's a pain to update things people might start to educate others. Most the time not but 1 in 20 will.

Quote from cpy

I was thinking of making charcoal farm for diamonds, but then i'd still need other material, but doing all of this without EE might be really harder, and probably more fun
Anyone have some opinion on NOT using Equivalent Exchange?

I ran the last version of EE for about 5 hours in a new build. Had a diamond factory up in that time and figured it wasn't much fun. The new version looks better but meh. In my current world I have run 100% legit never taking it off normal mode and I have more diamonds than I have uses and I fab mostly Iron followed by redstone when needed.

Currently running 25 gen wind tower, 300+ gen water tower, 350+ solar panels, 2 nukes (1) six chamber (1) single chamber.

So yes you do not need EE to get a lot done. It's in my opinion more fun to have to manage resources tightly. I just wish there was more use for copper. I am now making blocks for a future building made from it.

Running IC2,BC,RP2, portal, wireless redstone.

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Psst: you don't *have to* install all of RP2, it's very modular.

It's not as modular as you might think. some stuff depends on other stuff being there.

As to Eloraam's behavior. This is something that has bugged me a bit. She made a choice. She could have continued to make mods for other mods and made her own stuff depend on those mods but it raises issues of dealing with other peoples release cycles. None the less that is the way to approach duplication. Not what she has done. If BC/IC/RP were collapsed into one and everyone followed the same API and had the same path do you know how epic that would be. It would basically make the game that most of us want to be playing already. You know the one that takes energy management/resource management with a dash of hardcore automation and makes it fun. instead Elo is just going off to do whatever she wants and doesn't seem terribly concerned with who she steps on.

Sadly this is going to end up bad for everyone involved. Don't get me wrong I love her mod but there was no need for pipes. You can do everything her pipes do with BC pipes and mods (some are still alpha). There was no need for bluetricity. she could have just used IC2. Some of the machines are cool but don't bother trying to convince me that bluetricity and tubes were needed. And she does not offer or even imply that you ever be able to mod her stuff the same way IC and BC have allowed.

That kind of closed source never works out well in the end for anyone but the person doing the writing.

RP lacks a good substitute for diamond pipes. Filters only do one item type and are bulky. overflow is an issue as well. At least with BC you can use a mod to deal with it. In RP you stuff just keeps bouncing around. This works for some things but can be limiting.

RP is cool and all but it does not replace some things that BC does like the filler and builder.