It is known that many mods offer in one way or another some sense of automation. Rather it's a quarry piping into a auto smelting system that then moves over to an auto storage, or nether networks pumping lava that get stored into tanks that get pumped to fuel various things. Auto farmers for foods and trees or mobs.
But how far is to far? When does it get to the point where you're no longer really playing the game, but sitting back watching mods play it for you? When the most you have to do is maybe move a quarry if you haven't automated that yet.
I'd like to know how far do some of you go with automation?
For myself, I find that if I automate to much the game becomes dull and boring. The most I ever really automate is a sorting system. So I can sort thing's in from a quarry (if I use one at all) or sort random junk I come across that I can dump into a chest and move on. Bees I may also automate to a point, but I only tend to go as far as an indexer to take access drones to send off to either a DNA set up that then goes to a tank, or to a void pipe if I'm choosing to play with out the dna stuff.
Everything else I do myself, as it gives me something to do, a reason to keep playing. Yes it may be fun and cool to build the elaborate set ups that automate everything and watch items flash by in pipes and see and hear machines moving and working...
But in the end you're just standing there, just looking.
The first time I went all out like that I found it looked super amazing, while hardly sufficient it was fun to look at.
But that was it... look at. I did nothing and once that thrill of how cool the build looked and the feeling of having created such a thing wore off... well... maybe in creative to have fun I'd go all out like that again. But for real SSP or SMP game play, I stick to as little automation as I can.
So how far do you go? When does it become to much? Do you ever get to the point where you find yourself just walking around looking at everything do everything for you?
But how far is to far? When does it get to the point where you're no longer really playing the game, but sitting back watching mods play it for you? When the most you have to do is maybe move a quarry if you haven't automated that yet.
I'd like to know how far do some of you go with automation?
For myself, I find that if I automate to much the game becomes dull and boring. The most I ever really automate is a sorting system. So I can sort thing's in from a quarry (if I use one at all) or sort random junk I come across that I can dump into a chest and move on. Bees I may also automate to a point, but I only tend to go as far as an indexer to take access drones to send off to either a DNA set up that then goes to a tank, or to a void pipe if I'm choosing to play with out the dna stuff.
Everything else I do myself, as it gives me something to do, a reason to keep playing. Yes it may be fun and cool to build the elaborate set ups that automate everything and watch items flash by in pipes and see and hear machines moving and working...
But in the end you're just standing there, just looking.
The first time I went all out like that I found it looked super amazing, while hardly sufficient it was fun to look at.
But that was it... look at. I did nothing and once that thrill of how cool the build looked and the feeling of having created such a thing wore off... well... maybe in creative to have fun I'd go all out like that again. But for real SSP or SMP game play, I stick to as little automation as I can.
So how far do you go? When does it become to much? Do you ever get to the point where you find yourself just walking around looking at everything do everything for you?
