Magic mods focus less on the power, and more what to do with said power, whereas tech mods are heavily focused and balanced around power generation. Look at Witchery, its entire power system is "have there be natural stuff- get a lot of power", because you are supposed to focus on things you can do with the power (rites, brews, etc.)
But it is still something you put into a machine to get power. It just takes more steps and more time to produce more power.
That's the entire challenge of game design, though. It's entirely possible to keep something simple while increasing depth (depth meaning the amount of viable choices that the user has). However, if you introduce complex mechanics without increasing depth, you probably will be criticized (deservedly, in my opinion).
This is the big difference to me. The standard dynamo's are to small and very compact. In a good power gen, I would expect piping steam from a dynamo into a turbine or such.
I also like long processing chains. But in the end, it's the same as a standard dynamo.
No, that's not what I meant. What I meant was that, generally, magic mods do not focus on the generation side of things, where tech mods do. Tech mods are typically balanced around the production of power, which you can then use to make cool things.
Lemme just highlight this bit for you all. My favorite line in the last the 2-3 pages I just read.
BC won't be, at least long-term. It's too old-school and widely used for no one to pick it back up if it gets tossed. Though, I really doubt it will. MJ, on the other hand, I worry about.
My problem is that it seems that over the last few months, BC was on the receiving end of a lot of negative publicity regarding its performance (often used as the 'worse alternative' when performance of other mods was being discussed), much of which is either untrue or from its rock-solid stability, but nonetheless severely cut its userbase.
It also has an annoying tendency to drop anything it doesn't know what to do with on the ground which can lag out a whole server if you aren't careful. I much prefer Ducts as a whole. They're just... cleaner.
