Cheap ME network?
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AE isn't supposed to be an early game mod you start with. it's more of a midgame to endgame mod, where you need to collect quite large amounts of resources to properly start off with
Yes a storage bus works well for that. You can make a functional AE network without any actual AE drives or storage that way.
you could also hook up your logistics pipes system onto your AE system, though I never tried it myself
LP requires different resources, but personally I think it's not really cheaper than AE.
meh, you can use both worlds and constantly pick the one that's cheaper.
I find it cheaper to set up a storage system using logistics pipes then using AE
It is, but only because storage with AE requires AE resources and storage with LP requires other storage solutions, because LP doesn't have storage stuff. It has sorting, crafting, and sending things places. AE has sorting, crafting, and storage. Two mods with two different ways of doing things.
I'm considering removing AE, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea just yet. AE has some great things, such as it's storage. But it's expensive because of it needing resources that only it uses and only it adds. If it cut out total need on it's own quartz(even some system to turn nether quartz into its quartz like DartCraft allows), then it'd be totally fine in my books.
Depends on what you're doing, I suppose. AE beats LP for it's autocrafting because no items rendered = less server lag. LP beats AE for world gen loads because no world gen = less server lag. If one could have LP use TE Itemducts without issue, then it would win hands down at pretty much everything except storage, by virtue of AE having storage and LP not having storage.
There are rumors of a LP version designed for Itemducts. Bevo mentioned them on his channel, but I've heard nothing since.
AE is guaranteed not to have bounce back which is amazing. LP has much more precision. Frankly, I use both. You can save a little on resources, by using the buildcraft assembly table to make processors, but it's not a huge savings.
AE is guaranteed not to have bounce back which is amazing. LP has much more precision. Frankly, I use both. You can save a little on resources, by using the buildcraft assembly table to make processors, but it's not a huge savings.
Rumors? More like experimental support. It's disabled by default, because it's experimental. Gee, I wonder why no one knows it's released already?
I thought it was still in alpha phases.
On the other hand, better that than some of the other experimentals that got released.
On the other hand, better that than some of the other experimentals that got released.
No such thing (yet?).
Storage busses are not a cheaper alternative to drives, but they are a cheaper option in specific circumstances.
A fully upgraded JABBA barrel with a storage bus is a better option for storing mass amounts of one item then a dedicated formatted drive, it's even better if you use DSU's. But storage busses do not replace drives per se but they are better then drives for some uses.
Storage busses are not a cheaper alternative to drives, but they are a cheaper option in specific circumstances.
A fully upgraded JABBA barrel with a storage bus is a better option for storing mass amounts of one item then a dedicated formatted drive, it's even better if you use DSU's. But storage busses do not replace drives per se but they are better then drives for some uses.
Is that a IC2 is dead joke? Because the LP TE3 support is, AFIAK, only in experimental stages, and only in experimental builds, and while that may seem neither here nor there, the point still stands.
Don't forget extra cells block storage cells. They store the amount that fits into a 64k cell for the price of a 1k cell and a chest, limited to one item type.
...right in the EE2 feels, man. Y U Do this, man?
Seriously? Notbad_Obama.tiff
Yes. All the drives on the left side are pretty much full of them, I think there is only one or two preformatted "normal" cells in there.
