Maybe its a matter of pride, for you.
Yes, probably so.
See, I'm not going into other server threads and preaching the evils of ee, no, I just made an administrative decision on my own dam server.
Don't expect you to. This is relevant to the server, so I'm talking about it here. Albeit it is your own server, and you have the right to do what you did, since you are the host of the server, it should be expected of you to create a server that will entertain your players, right? Of course, there is the chance that you didn't make this in the interest of supplying entertainment to others, but instead you were more keen on entertainment for yourself (Which, when worded that way, sounds a lot more 'evil' or whatever than it actually is, but I'm unsure of how to word it differently).
I expected that certain trait from you as host, and I guess I was disappointed?
"everybody wants EE"
i'd rather play without it, kthnx.
Most everyone*?
The thing is, when you explain what it is to those who havent used it, they agree with me.
Your explanations don't do it justice at all. Experience is a lot better than explanation.
Its only after youve gotten so used to it that you no longer think mining is possible that you play without it.
I'm assuming exaggeration was used as an emphasis mechanism, so I'll leave that be. You are right in saying that if EE were never in Tekkit to begin with, this would not be an issue. There's absolutely no arguing that. It's more that we know there was a way to make something even a little less tedious, and that it was intentionally removed without our say, or that there was a promise of it coming back soon, but it never did.
It'd be nice if we could suck it up and keep moving, but humans are too naturally passive-aggressive for that.
Protip guys: You can makes quarrys turtles bombs lasers etc. to make mining much faster.
This is true, and I've been playing around with that a bit.
Without EMC generators, we'd actually be forced to do that still, just not nearly as often. We still need to supply ourselves with matter for use in transmutation. Even with my old house, I had to have quarries running to supply me with matter until I made those EMC generators. By the time they were banned, I had enough matter to last me a long time, and I was actually almost out of "spare matter" when the map reset occurred, so I was ready to start running quarries again.
If you were to explain in full detail your opinion of EE as is, it'd be a lot easier for me to understand your thoughts, and I'd be less frustrated.
Theres supposed to be some kind of downside.
I mean the resources should be taken from somewhere.
Not just conjured up at the convience of the player who has a few spare diamonds.
The "downside" balancing mechanic is fine and done everywhere in games. Tedium makes for a horrible example of this.
Here's an example of where the "downside" mechanic is done pretty well:
Mining Laser (and other electronic tools in IC2) - Requires electricity, and more powerful settings use more of it. Good.
Quarry - Requires BuildCraft power, and so its speed is relative to how much it gets. Slow, but works, and works pretty darn well. Leaves a big, ugly hole though. The larger the area you're mining, the longer it'll take to get it all.
Mining Turtle - Requires knowledge of coding to use to its fullest extent, and this makes it really fun to use if you like coding. I don't even think this has much a downside other than its small inventory.
Swiftwolf's Rending Gale - Requires fuel in the form of EMC for flying. 64EMC/s of flying, if I remember correctly. Of course, I could definitely agree on a higher rate of EMC consumption.
Also, convenience is amazing and I have no idea why you have something against it. Maybe you're more old-school-minded?
I also have to apologize for the tone of my earlier posts, I was in a pretty bad mood.
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