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Yeah, that's what attracted me to try it out. It's F2P, and not P2W. The only things you can buy with money are cosmetics, mounts, and consumables. Of those, the only thing that affects gameplay (consumables), you can get through normal gameplay.

Blast. I misvoted, lol. I meant to vote for "Just More Pistons."

So, since this is going F2P soon, I decided to try it out. I used to be big into WoW, but couldn't afford the subscription anymore. I've never played any other MMO's. My current opinions about the game: Holy crap, this game looks way better than WoW. Holy crap, this combat is way more fun...

IC2 nerfed Obsidian so that Nukes and Reactor meltdowns would destroy it. It's blast resistance is insanely high in vanilla MC, so the nerf just means you have a reason to use Reinforced Stone/Warded Stone/Xychoridite Shield. Obsidian can still easily withstand blasts from TNT and Creepers.

This is very true. :P

You could also go: Thermopile->Blulectric Engine->Magma Crucible->Geothermal Generator/Thermal Generator (GregTech's Geo Gen). Cuts out two steps from the steam method, but would require Netherrack for maximum efficiency. Cobble will work, too, but you lose efficiency.

You can also check out the official FTB wiki. It's not totally complete yet, but we do have an article for the Cargo Manager.

I knew that much. He was asking if there was any power generation in IC2 that works with a similar mechanic. After he told me what that mechanic was, I can say there's not.

Nope. Nothing like that in IC2. Closest thing is a Nuclear Reactor. You put in Uranium Cells (heat it up), and Coolant Cells (cool it down, obviously), and it generates energy. But it doesn't so much need the cold to generate EU's, as it does to not blow your base to smithereens.

What's the Thermopile do? I'm not familiar with that piece of tech. I am familiar with IC2, though.

FTFY

I usually then start filling barrels of Solid Stone, Stone Bricks, Sand, and Glass. :P Scrap is also a good idea. Even if you don't use a Mass Fab, you can make it into Scrapboxes, load em up in a deployer, and use an obsidian pipe to pick up the drops. You have a chance of getting diamonds...

This. Top tier solars, whether Advanced Solars or Compact Solars, are insane to build. Compact Solars are not too demanding resourcewise, but they take forever to manually assemble. Nuclear plants are easier and cheaper. And that's not even factoring in GregTech's increased Solar Panel costs.

I don't think GregTech could function without IC2. Not without duplicating a lot of it's functionality, anyway. Everything it has is basically a higher end version of what IC2 already does. I don't think it'd make sense to have things like a high end Energy Storage Block without the lower end EU...

It may be just me, but I like the aesthetics of the Aluminum Torches better than regular ones, too. It just looks out of place to light my mad scientist's lair with flaming sticks. :P

Don't pay any attention to this guy. He's just a little uptight about his thread. Not everyone in the FTB community values their challenges more than they value their fellow players. I'm sorry you were offended, but trust me, there's always people who don't think about whether they are...

Yup. Just something to push the items in the pipe, and an overflow chest for manual sorting. My system I set up with my girlfriend allows us to put all of our collected items in an input chest, where a Transposer shoves the items through the system. Anything with a barrel (stuff that doesn't...

This. Anyone who studies the MC code can tell you, between 1.3.2 (when they started planning the Modding API and hired Dinnerbone) and 1.4.7, a heck of a lot of the internal code has been rewritten. An easy example of this is the dispenser. In 1.3.2, the Dispenser class was a huge mess of...

PetroGen already is in the MindCrack pack, and will likely be in Ultimate when that is finished. All that remains is for DrCeph here to code this feature and for it to be updated. :)

I think that was Advanced Solars.