One thing I've found a little strange is the progression of the quest book. I understand it's not meant to be a linear progression through the different steps but it's a little illogical. Step 1 early in the tree says I should build an mfr farm. Yet no mention of power has been suggested. So I check out step 2 which suggests a coal generator. Okay cool, so you want me to jump around a bit. That's fine. So i switch over to step 2 for a couple of quests. The 2nd quest in the 2nd step wants me to go to the nether and put down a lava pump and a couple of ender tanks. huh? The ender is one of the last quests in the first step.
So now I'm basically just ignoring the quest book, doing my own thing because the quests seem just randomly put in there. Getting started ends with power armor and going to the end. Fair enough I haven't gotten to the universe exploration quests yet, and it might get a little more logical then, but right now it seems very random. Enjoying the actual mod pack though, it's really fun.