Umm I assume you mean Vaskii here, if so he/she would probably already be annoyed by the mana fabricator that's been in the mod for a while. Even though it requires a big reactor hooked up to it to make it compareable to some Endoflames (which is a good thing). It's still a RF> mana conversion.
If you are worried about pissing Vas off you guys have probably done enough already. Lol.
Vaskii should be fine with the mana beam so long as it doesn't obsolete regular mana spreaders like that liquid mana idea. My idea was to make a rigid but effective way to transport mana long distance, I was originally thinking it should be restricted to cardinal directions only.
Needing the photonic spark to convert the beam was also a way of bringing it back to Botania. Bear in mind the beam should not directly power things and the photonic spark would acts like it's isolated. It's not an improved mana spreader its a purpose built one you'd have to use a regular spreader to the beam receiving pool to get it in a useable form.
Actually that's an other idea, technospark augment; sparks that are more sophisticated with their mana distribution. Like you can tell it which pool (restrict it to one pool at a timd) and how much to fill. It would also need rf per unit of mana moved, but plonking a cable to it sound silly so you'd transmit rf to it with a special coil that would attach to a cable. ill call it an energon coil. If it's not powered it acts like a regular dominant spark. Make the recipy require pixie dust though to gate it behind Elven lore.
Another idea Alfheim Gate dialer; lets you toggle the Alfheim gate on and off with a press of its button or a redstone signal. I mean a technomage is above such things as sticky pistons. (The current workaround is to have a sticky piston remove and replace a block effectively breaking the connection.)
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Again, interesting ideas.
And yes, we have annoyed vazkii some already. I think it is in both mods best interest to avoid doing that any further.
I can't speak for theflogat, but I don't think I will be adding any more support for anything Botania. Vazkii wants nothing to do with anything RF related, and this is an RF based mod.
I especially think that anything to do with Mana generation, transportation, or distribution should be avoided.
As far as the liquid mana idea obsoleting spreaders... it doesn't, not in the slightest. It is expensive and slow, on purpose. Its only real usefullness is cross dimensionally, and for large scale storage. But, it still pissed Vazkii off.
I'm no fool, I get the message... "This is my mod, and I'll be a good dev and publish an API. But god help anyone who tries to get their Peanut Butter (Tech) in my Chocolate (Botania).". Hey, thats fine, I'm sure we can find other things to do with our Peanut Butter...
