Ah I see. You're not a hoarder and you're complaining about stuff made for hoarders. There are people that only use a single chest per raw material, with or without barrels (I am one of these, each chest has a sign on whats in it so that friends can know which is which). You're using code to make yourself sound smart, while using mods that aren't legitimately part of the pack that this forum is from to flaunt how you're better than everyone else who is waiting for official versions of the mods in question. Not to mention, your code does not represent exactly how things could be set up, physically or not.
Barrels, with the Pneumatic Tubes mechanic of "only valid inventories", makes hoarding quick, easy, and cheap. No need for expensive modules to do your sorting, its already done by virtue of the tubes mechanic. Your complaint is the fact that people don't have to put forth the effort to sort things fancy like you do and get the result they want.
The way Tubes + Barrels could work, if you had thought about it, is make an entire floor of barrels with tubes attached to the top of them all. Attach a single tube to the middle of this floor (best if the system is using odd numbers for the sides so there is a center square) and then attach that one single entry point to another floor where you actually are doing your work. You then have a regulator and a relay attached up on that other floor. Stick stuff in the relay, and it autosorts and fills into barrels on the storage floor. It should even not require you pre-setting up barrels to specific items. To pull stuff isn't as easy since you can't just go to it, so either add an item to the regulator and push the button to pull a stack from the barrel array, and I am pretty sure a sortron could be set up to push/pull from the system too. If there is anything that could be considered an array, its THIS setup. Two dimensional, auto-sorting array that you don't have to actually be around to access. There is no more If-Then in this setup than there is in any other possible setup.
But I will say this: I have never used Logistical Pipes. I barely even used Buildcraft pipes until I started playing FTB, because I was introduced to Pneumatic Tubes and they made a LOT of sense compared to what I had heard about Buildcraft Pipes (spilling stuff out of them if they get to the end of the line and there isn't any room, no control [before gates were added] over whether things were needed to put into the system, and random directions at intersections unless you specify a one way or pre-set materials using a diamond pipe).
But Logistical Pipes aren't part of FTB right now, so I won't try them either. I play SMP with friends and don't want to have to have everyone manually have to add/remove mods and change config settings to match the server I set up, so only basic modpacks for me (until they add the private server configuration setups as Slowpoke mentioned in his Mindcrack Interview).
Anyway. As I noticed in your last statement, you just are complaining at people for wanting to store more than a tiny bit of stuff. Has nothing to do with sorting methods or blocks that hold stuff. So maybe you should have said that in your op. I'm kind of sorry that I even got involved in this conversation, because its basically arguing on the internet. But it bothered me enough that you were using code that did not explain how things were actually in effect. Sure, you reiterated saying that it was explaining a physical representation, but even then it was still a bad example. It was a lapse explained by this
comic .
