Alice is up? Well that's nice! Maybe even for alice 1.8 you may test out sponge (with your normal stuff, stripped down) on the new alice? It's not like it will leak
Hey, been a while. I'm back from hiatus, and interested to know when the update/reset/etc. it happening, roughly. I've been playing around on the server for the last couple weeks off and on to test some things out. Server population's pretty low, with usually just me or maybe one or two others. Many have been asking when the update's happening, and it'd be nice to be able to give them a figure as to when. As for mods, I'm cool with whatever, so long as the dreaded IC2 isn't a part of it. Mekanism worked out really well, so it'd be nice to hold onto that, but would it be broken to request that the digital miner be enabled? I've seen it on the Yogscast server vids, and it seems like a very smart version of a quarry, able to grab up good stuff without leaving gaping holes in the ground, or taxing the server much that I could see. Anyone know if we'd still be using AE, or are we upgrading to AE2? Anyway, just wanted to chime in, say hi. No rush on response, just whenever.
I don't understand why we can't add the mods that work and the ones that don't keep out till they do. I wish the update was sooner too labtech41. I am soooo sick of playing on these awful servers that are like 1.7 but have 2 people on it. At least with Alice I know I'm going to play and stay, even though we reset like every update. I like those resets, usually I build pretty crappy bases not gonna lie. Those resets give me a chance to start over, without the world being used and all the resources gone.
We are nearly ready for the reset; we are basically just finishing up spawn build now. IC2 isn't included, Mek is included, Digiminer might be enabled, we'll have to see, and only AE2 is available for 1.7.10, so we have that. It's not as simple as that. If we followed that logic then we would become a vanilla server again. Rather than throwing mods out, we like to have the mods because they have cool features, and we just have to tweak config files or bytehack the mods to fix things. For example, recently we tried to use Railcraft Electric Rails and Electric Locomotives, but found they can only run off IC2 power, which we no longer have. So instead of just removing Railcraft or using different locomotives, Toni got to work and created a mod called FluxedFeederUnit, which allows the electric locomotives to work off RF.
If we have Applied Energistics 2 I have a lot of learning to do. Anyways this is why I love skcraft we don't get rid of things unless we absolutely have to we go and create a mod to fix the mod that has a problem. Anyways will ic2 maybe be added in the future?
r00d If a mod adds new blocks to world generation then we wouldn't have those since the world is pre-generated for the most part. We could only get those from a fresh mining world or other mining dimensions, which only works if the block is only important for endgame. I love you Toni. I wanted to try the E-locomotives and now I can do it without IC2. m.bison_yes_yes.avi
I think this question has been answered before but....Why can't we have IC2? :3 It's like, the best mod everrrrrr EU FTW
Bryce you check skcraft more than skype you need to make it so you receive notifications when I text you.
IC2-Exp is an entirely different beast to IC2. TE is a superior replacement to IC2, especially now we have TE4. Also, don't like the lack of an induction furnace? Write a mod that builds off TE's API.
By "Different Beast" I think he means that over the years as IC2 became worse and worse they bought out the IC2-exp or Experimental build. The experimental is even worse and even more unstable than the original IC2 that as I said has worsened over the years/mc versions. Thermal Expansion and Mekanism are by far superior to IC2 and serve as not only a replacement but an improvement. Neither of the mods experience energy transfer issues as they do not employ such methods of the IC2 "enet" Therefore you will not see IC2 in the 1.7 pack and maybe even the versions to come, it simply did not pass our quality control standards when adding mods to the pack.
It's really a sad thing. Even though non-exp IC2 is objectively worse than TE+Mek I still like it better because I love the EU system so much. It's more fun to use it, at least for me. Of course, some nostalgia is involved as well because it was the second tech mod I used, after BuildCraft. I'm going to miss it but it's for the better, the new energy system is too complicated and it's becoming more and more expensive and tedious since Greg joined the IC2 dev team. Anyway, we chewed through this topic a few times already. Time to concentrate on other new and interesting mods. Of course we don't know which new mods we're getting because nobody released a list... hint hint
