Accepted Downgrade to Enhanced Portals 2

I am just opening this thread for the discussion of possibly downgrading to enhanced portals 2. I have seen 1.6.4 modpacks that still use Enhanced Portals 2, so I know it can be done.

I remember when we first got enhanced portals, and I really liked it a lot. It brought a new social aspect to the server that I had not seen before. It really made trading easier and less time consuming to trade, not to mention having friends able to randomly drop by.

With the changes in EP3 it relegates the portals to personal use only, or maybe one or two trusted people, that you can ensure know how to work a portal and not drain your power. As far as I have seen literally only a few people even bother using EP3.

I know we have KAMI so have the celestial gates, but those are more of a pre set infrastructure then an as needed TP device. It is good for making teleport hubs, but I can't just give someone my code and let them come over.

Mekanism also has portals, but they are limited range, and you can only connect 2 together, so someone else hopping on the frequency will possibly render it unusable. As for IC2 teleporters.... IC2... bleh(nuff said).

 

I know EP3 has power requirements, and that is probably why we are using it, but could we do some recipe kung fu to make up for it in EP2?

 

They are limited range (~500 blocks from what I have read) and you can only connect 2 portals together with a 4 or 5 number code, so it makes it difficult to let multiple people, or new people, dial in.

 

Ahh, the documentation is rather lacking, I have been going off of youtube videos and comments. Without chunk loaders that could be problematic.

 

http://shadeddimensions.co.uk/deprecated-downloads/

 

On the server now barely anyone uses IC2, the MFEs alone are a pain to make.That and IC2 cannot go cross dimension (Not without huge power drain= IIRC) and you have to pre link the teleporters, not to mention the power requirements are distance and inventory based.

The reason why I liked EP2 so much is the ability to just tell someone a code and let them come over whenever they like, and also being able to just remove a block from the portal when I wanted some private time to myself, or having two portals, a trusted portal that is always on, and one enabled as needed for trading/public access use.

None of the current teleportation systems really give that, not even the mappad. If I could permanently accept people on the mappad that would relieve some of it, but the actual portals brought a different thinking to bases and the social aspect of the server.

P.S. If someone could PLEASE turn down the volume of the mappad teleportation sound. It is centered directly on the player when initiated so compared to any other sound in the game it is far louder, even if the source sound files are the same volume.