Sure sounded to me like he was talking about how it was the first mod to be built specifically for SMP, not that it is them first industry mod to be built for SMP...I was indicating the context you ignored from the quote you addressed. Slowpoke said that Xycraft is the first mod of ITS type to be built from the ground up with SMP in mind, its type being an industry mod. Please, pay attention to the context. If "its type" meant an SMP mod in that context, then Slowpoke would have been saying "It's the first SMP mod to be built from the ground up for SMP" which would be silly and redundant.
I even said I was talking about it..? Not sure why you bring it up again...Yes, you did bring up Xycraft. You didn't say "Xycraft," but you absolutely indicated it in the first post of yours that I addressed. Just because you didn't use its name or didn't know its name doesn't mean you didn't bring it up.
But you just said that you have to cater to everyone and can't have such lag.But those two mods are integral to a lot of strategies used in the current modpack with emphasis on Mystcraft. Furthermore there is constant work going on to reduce the lag with Mystcraft and there is the abillity to disable pieces of the PG mod that cause the most graphical stress.
FTB doesn't appear to be about anything, it has several different modpacks that are about stuff but FTB as a whole sure doesn't seem that way.Millenaire is a decent mod, however it neither fits the bill of what FTB is about nor is it the first thing that comes to people's mind when they're looking for a new mod to put into their modpack.
As I've said, Millenaire has a storyline with questchains, has building and town growth and expansion, has diplomacy and war, has a lot.
People like playing on servers especially because then they can build up their towns to attack other players' towns.