Eh, Personally digital fluid storage sucks in my opinion. It gets full really quickly, so in 1.7 I used Extra Cells, Fluid Storage bus hooked up to a Bedrockium Drum to store my fluids. Practically infinite space. In 1.10.2 its even better with a Quantum Tank.
true, but that's still something AE2 can't do on it's own but AL (ad I suppose by extension RS) can do independantly
True true, but is the loss of possible automation of AE worth built in fluid storage. Everyone knows that AE is faster than RS. More unique of a mod than RS. (The real world crafting mechanics, along with the autocrafting multiblocks.) Let's say for a minute that you want to autocraft a Chaotic Solar Panel from Solar Flux Reborn. That is amazing each craft is like 1m RF a tick. With that sort of power you need it to be in-depth and intrigue, which AE has but RS doesn't. RS autocrafting is just a crafter with a pattern in it. AE2 autocrafting needs quite a few items to make the multiblocks. You need a crafting co-processor, crafting storage, interfaces, and the molecular assemblers. And then you can experiment with them to find the best setup.
Can't argue with the first part, but tedium is completely debatable. The amount of nether quartz you need for RS is insane. Every 4 enriched iron is one nether quartz. And you need to smelt a nether a silicon. And for me, my computer doesnt handle mega modded nether well. Its very laggy.
With Mekanism, the crusher crushes one sand into one silicon. Oops, there is any FTB modpack with Refined Storage and Mekanism both... Except Infinity Lite... x)
I mean, nether quartz isn't to hard to get/ it stands out a lot in the nether, and is effected by fortune. os you can get upto 4 per ore with a good pick. personally, I've always had a harder time with the iron in the early stages of RS than with the quartz.
Hmmm. RS is still resource intensive, but no cool mechanics like real world crafting or meteors. Its much more about just getting lots of iron and quartz vs, you need few resources but lots of different things.
the meteors are cool, until you get 2 of each press and can't find the one you need for the life of you, and then once you finally find it and get back to your base and the pure certus quartz seeds you started growing an hour ago are only at 50%
As soon as you have to revert to "Get good", you know you've basically run out of argument.
Yes, but I've deliberately refrained from commenting before now, because it would have only come out as argumentative and dismissive. I strongly disagreed with the entire flawed premise of the thread, and felt quite insulted on behalf of the developers of the named mods. But the "get good" just pushed me over that edge.
Git gud is a perfectly valid argument. Look at this https://hypixel.net/members/hypixel.1/ The owner of the largest minecraft server's PFP is Git Gud.
Take Skyfactory and Hermitpack, the first two FTB 1.10.2 packs made, now at the time of those packs release, AE2 had not been ported, but all the previous Skyfactories and Hermit based things used AE, so had AE2 been ported at the time. You could assume that AE would've been used and not RS? Make sense? RS was developed along with some other mods like Gravestone and Open Glider to allow packs to be created while all the other mods got up to date.
