Hello, I'm here for some feedback =)
Very good pack ! I had a lot of fun playing it, and the trade system is a very good idea, and implemented masterfully.
Here's a bunch of random mixed remarks/suggestions
- Like every pack with a bunch of mods stuck together with default config/recipe, it is very easy (as in, endgame is reached fast, 90% of blocks are obsolete before you even get a chance to use them, unless you force yourself to use them).
The trade system is a great way to create progression. Thankfully you did it with DE (during early stages I was like "nooo he has a beast of a way to create progression and he doesnt use it!!" until I reached DE
)
=> IMO, it would be neat to gate many more things behind the business system.
The way you did it for DE but for more machines or machine components =) Ofc, I noticed this is not The Infinity Ferret Expert Business so that might not be your thing.
=> You could even do it for basic resource. As it stands, except for DE ofc, I only used the shop to get a few easy emeralds at start and that's it. Like "oops, sorry, your world doesn't have iron, gotta buy it!". Well, I'm going too far, this would be a different pack =)
- You should really consider tweaking (recipe or QUEST book) RFTools dimensions to endgame.
A minimal setup (dialing device, transmitter, dimension builder, dimension inscriber) costs 12 redstone + 5 enderpearls + 2 inksacks + 22 iron + 1 paper + 2 diamonds + 4 gold + 1 emerald + 8 lapis, add to this dimension tabs and digit dimlets if you wanna try multiple random dims.
In my playthrou, they were the first machines I made. My very first random dimension was a sapphire ore one lol. 8250 FMC per. For 100 RF/t. I was able to fill a barrel of sapphire in under 2 minutes by shift-mining with my starter Tinker's pickaxe (decent speed, fortune 3). A few world interaction upgrades later, I had a system auto crafting this barrel into more than 5 stacks of 100k FMC crates, which turned into 670ish BAGS of coins plus 1.5 draconium chit (the bottleneck was turning the 100k crates haha, even with octadic capacitors in the SAG mill).
For 2 minutes of mining. Pack = Won. *laughs at people and their cobblegens*
Sure I was lucky, but I mean one can just create more random dims with Digit dimlets and get a decent one for almost as cheap. At very early game.
- In case you don't know/it's not intended, one can make an ender dragon dimension. Since it drops between half a stack and a stack of draconium dust, this is pretty much a QUEST bypass =) I don't mind this one as much tho, as it's a bit harder to make a Dragon dimlet and use it. And resurrecting the dragon is boring anyways.
- A Bag of Coins > 50 coins recipe would be nice for autocrafting. Because my autonomous activators opening bags into vacuum hoppers feel a bit weird
- Really personal here, but I feel there are too many quests.
I noticed the effort you put into writing them, and it's nicely done, but I still find it boring when questbook goes like "craft every single item in this mod", even with the nice writing. I realize there are beginners and they might find it useful tho.
I prefer less quests, and I prefer them milestone-ish. Like "make this contraption <insert hints here>, submit proof you did it". Example "Time to ramp up your mana. Hint: gourmarilys rocks. Submit 4 full mana tablets plz". Or could make the quests more interesting by giving them a progression purpose.
- I like the variety of mobs!
- The quest "Crystal network" in ch.4 allows infinite Epic blind bags at no cost
- I have to restart my client every one hour or so, as I start getting huge spikes every few secs. Happened in
a couple other packs, but I could never pinpoint the cause
- I have Mekanism energy pipes connected to enderIO banks, they stop working from time to time (when chunk unloads maybe?). Reconfiguring the bank's output fixes it tho.
Final words :
Thanks a lot for this pack, it is really fun. I'm mostly done with it, but I might do a serious clean base as a last move as I rushed through it pretty fast. Like a big coin factory, altho it feels a bit pointless when I can just connect an enderquarry to my very first random dim.
Now if you want my eternal love, make "The Ferret Business Expert" with Infinity Expert-like progression PLUS your awesome FMC progression. Oh, and while you're at it, make it galacticraft-centric, let's start on the moon with only scarce resource, just enough to grind FMC to buy some basic metals, then slowly unlock new planets with more resources.
/endoffile