Maybe it does, but do consider it's immaterial to the discussion of how to assemble a modpack today.
Redpower going the way of Nandonalt's Mods?
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Maybe it does, but do consider it's immaterial to the discussion of how to assemble a modpack today.
Although I do agree to some extent King, but this is applied to all technical fields. Whether it's Engineering, Medicine, IT, etc...
My only hope is that if she ever decides to stop working on Redpower, that she'll open source it.
Other than that, I really don't think we can ask anything of her - but it would be pretty catastrophic, at least for me, were it to be removed.
Other than that, I really don't think we can ask anything of her - but it would be pretty catastrophic, at least for me, were it to be removed.
There is an intentionally and easily triggered dupe bug and an unintentional one that as a side effect can easily crash servers. Plus a variety of instant-crash (some client only, some server+client) bugs centered around UI bugs. *Plus* major lag based issues, all before 1.5 and all based entirely within RPr6, not needing multi-mod interaction at all.
The mod hasn't adapted to _this_ vanilla update yet.
I never meant to imply that those same externalities don't apply to other fields as well - they often do. I could go on a rant here about American culture and why certain other countries are completely destroying us in terms of development (hint: lots of people, outgoing leader is an engineer), but at this point I think the topic is so far derailed that I really had better not. Suffice it to say, some of the issues that hit technical fields are political in nature.
Software Engineering is sort of infamous right now as being particularly laden with these issues. For example, you're much more likely to find women in electrical engineering than software engineering.
I don't know why people get the idea that 1.5 redstone will "break everything". Redstone behavior will be exactly the same as before. It always trailed off over 15 blocks. 1.5 adds Comparators that let you make analog logic and compare how much 2 signals have dropped off.
1.5 also includes a new block, Droppers, that partially obsoletes RP Filters, and provides an alternative to Tubes (and BC Pipes, for that matter).
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Dropper
Why connect your machines with a slow Tube/Pipe when you can move items at a rate of 1 per tick with a Dropper?
Honestly, there are a few other things that will break mods before Redstone does.
Heh, if I see anyone doing anything like this instead of using pipes, I think I won't be able to stop a nuke "accidentally" going off in their base.
The reason likely being that often times an update from Mojang will cause many conflicts with the current modifications as the API we use (Forge) is not produced directly by them so it takes time to adapt to the changes in the code.
As was already stated, it has happened before, and it will happen again.
Filters move full stacks per redstone signal, whereas droppers move one item. A dropper is much closer to transposer, although it lacks a good amount of the functions of the transposer, but it is greatly cheaper.
Forge may have issues due to the rendering updates and API updates, yes.
But acting like redstone is going to break everything is seriously misguided.
Why not? Hoppers are much better, they suck out and insert items intelligently.
They basically replace Pipes + Gates or RP Tubes + Lag for dumb operations like Ore Processing set-ups in a lag-friendly manner. No longer blindly piping items out under the faith that your furnace isn't full, and have a bunch of ingots floating around in the world. And RP Tubes are not lag-friendly _at all_.
Something that would long since have been considered "OP" by many, an intelligent transport pipe, is in vanilla MC. And all in one block! End of the world!
/Insert report of GregTech planning on nerfing the Hopper recipe using Nether Stars
Yeah, they're ugly as sin. But what in Minecraft isn't. Besides, Optifine always fixes that.
The hoppers/droppers are not really lag friendly, and the RP stuff at the moment is a bit of a bug. I guarantee you that as "friendly" as these things are, there will be a way to improve upon them. Not that I've been thinking about that at all or anything.
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^ This right here. Have to consider the whole system.
have you thought about having power transfer through interconnected TE machine blocks even with a decay rate like the RP machines do (sans decay rate)?
I agree there are tons of cooler ways to do automation than Yet More Item Tracks. I think that anyone who's played with thaumcraft golems can tell you how much better that can be than pipes. I have single golems doing things that traditionally to 2-3 block structures with multiple timers. And the thing is it doesn't really feel like an unfair option because the up-front cost of making golems is really huge.
A good example: iron golems stacking objects into packagers and removing things to place back into my sorting system. Direwolf20 just solved this problem in a pretty hairy way today, but 2 iron golems and a marking block would have rendered it trivial.
I eagarly await a "tank" golem that can better move fluids from one place to another without all the limitations of the tallow golem. Imagine a golem or two intelligently keeping engines that require multiple fluids running.
I hope we see more awesome new game mechanics like that. I think Thaumcraft's stuff is nothing short of revolutionary to minecraft mods.
A good example: iron golems stacking objects into packagers and removing things to place back into my sorting system. Direwolf20 just solved this problem in a pretty hairy way today, but 2 iron golems and a marking block would have rendered it trivial.
I eagarly await a "tank" golem that can better move fluids from one place to another without all the limitations of the tallow golem. Imagine a golem or two intelligently keeping engines that require multiple fluids running.
I hope we see more awesome new game mechanics like that. I think Thaumcraft's stuff is nothing short of revolutionary to minecraft mods.
My earlier prayers have been answered!
A different golem is fine, too.
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