Most of us ok with FTB waiting for redpower. Releasing the pack without redpower shows that the FTB team doesn't have the patience.
We have no issue with patience but we see no reason to hold the release of the launcher when it's totally finished why not release the launcher so people that want to play without RP can then when RP is done (Maybe not for a long time) the people that want to play with that can
Will we have a standard blockID config, now that the mod pack will be released? I'd hate to reset my world again!
Yes, thats already in the pack!
So pretty much the same pack as we have now? That's a bit disappointing. What major changes to the launcher can we expect?
None, all you have been playing atm is a beta that we use for testing for the launch so basically its like playing a pre-release on minecraft, you dont expect massive changes from pre-release to release
Can the mods suggest how this is supposed to be viable in SMP?
Unfortunately bukkit (or any other server) doesn't have a good solution right now, many of you will be aware of the issues with bukkit mappings slowing down the updates to SMP so we will be releasing FTB for the people that want to use it in SSP or on a private server until something else is available. I would like to stress that this is totally out of the hands of the FTB team, everything on our end is done we are just waiting on other projects to catch up now, if we didn't release now then we would have to wait up to a month or more due to minecraft updates etc.
So just to clear things up:
This is OUR release, our launcher is now ready for release and thus we are releasing it, the fact that one specific mod you want is not in it at this point is not relevant as the pack will be updated to it as soon at it is. The point is all we have done essentially is change the label from beta to release, that doesn't mean you have to start using it or have to start your server right away, this is just us telling the world that FTB is ready when they are.
