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Your math groks fine, but I don't agree with your conclusions. You didn't demonstrate that lava itself is efficient, you have just shown how stupidly large amounts of lava the dw20 machine pumps out of a specially constructed mystcraft age. If you produced any other fuel source (other than wood...

Instead of a this pack vs that pack, do a brief overview on the different mods themselves. Let people choose which pack contains the most mods they want, or build their own with whatever mods they like if playing singleplayer. This will also help people when considering a server which adds or...

Both maps are client-side only, you can add Rei's back without any problems yourself, even when playing on a server. I did so on day 1 of installing ultimate.

Any idea why is it not in any FTB pack then? Permissions nonsense?

This is the mini-Beast: The apparatus is divided in two sides: The player side, where the player will have access to, and a machine side, which should be enclosed in an indestructible barrier. The barrier is here symbolized by a bedrock wall. The only connection between the two is the shared...

My main problem with the new Mystcraft is that it tries to "balance" "unbalanced" symbols by making them extremely rare. The difficulty of obtaining a, let's say, diamond ore symbol is not in some long, involved process (compare: fusion reactors), but in simple RNG of finding a villager which...

As a programmer I find it funny how there are 4 pages of people arguing that X causes more "lag" than Y, with not a single profiling experiment, not even a test in a controlled environment. All we have is "on my server (which has 3 billion other things running at the same time) I sometimes get...

BT is a weird case as the conversion rate is so terrible. You will most likely have to spend way more effort building a massive solar plant or a lot of windmills (or a sky-high tower of thermopiles) to get the same output as a few basic engines of other mods. But you're still skipping the other...

This thread proves that no matter how reasonable and well-written your OP is, you just can't get a mature discussion about mod balance going on these forums. Power converters: I always felt that any kind of power conversion (including things like Forestry electrical engine or RP blutric engine)...

The balance of it is supposed to be the fact that it is a very localized and semi-rare resource. Try running a base on fuel without using enderchests or tesseracts. Either of these completely eliminates any locality concerns.

Add Traincraft and build a fancy train with work carts, service carts, passenger carts for the refinery workers, a diesel locomotive, and loading/unloading stations. :) I really wish there were more long-term resource deposits, so that something like this wouldn't become merely a tourist...

All the off-topic posts aside: If your biomass source is practically unlimited (which pretty much every one is), the amplifier doesn't really matter. You will get infinite power anyway. You will get a little more biomass and therefore a little more MJ per operation of the fermenter, and this...

Both EE and SS alone give you an order of magnitude faster methods of material acquisition than any other mod in the packs. Their combination can only be faster. Whether you call that overpowered depends on your definition of the word - as nearly everybody on these forums has a different idea of...

My general feeling about the GT recipes is (correct me if I'm wrong) that you aren't supposed to have everything at once. Set making one advanced piece as your goal for the next few days, and you'll get there. You don't need a massfab and you definitely don't need a fusion reactor. And as...

In all likelyhood 5GB is more RAM than you need. I find that if I allocate too much RAM, the game actually runs slower. Play with the slider to find an optimum for your machine, every computer is different. For me, I get best performance and no memory-related crashes at 1.5GB.

I never do any of the well-known, most efficient, seen everywhere methods of doing things. Even if it's the most efficient, too many of them rely on some mods or cross-mod interactions breaking the balance. "Balance" here being what I want to be my game's effort-to-gain ratio. Among other things...

You need casts to make stained glass. You can also make gears with less metal consumed - but the saving is less than one block per gear, so it only shows if you make several at once. Armor, tools, and blocks use the same amount as crafting manually. For an exploity bonus, craft gears in the...

All the recipes for and of the new machines are available in NEI. Automatic X will automatically spit out all of its outputs once a minute to the marked output face. If that's too slow for you, you can also pull items from that side using wooden pipes/transposers/filters/translocators/etc. You...

A diamond pipe will not work in your case, if I understand correctly what you're trying to do. GregTech Translocators have an inverted mode, in which they pull everything but the items in their filter.

Is it possible that the pump already mined all the lava source blocks in the loaded chunk? That way, it would work while you are there, as it's pulling lava from adjacent chunks, but not while the only loaded chunk is the empty one.