So how do you apply a cost to it to balance it out? As you're being given resources, then the two main things to turn to are power and time. That's pretty beneficial resource-wise right there. Regarding the crystal growing - you're turning sand into Certus quartz. If the people you're playing with aren't prepared to let you copy their presses at no loss to them, you're probably playing in the wrong place. If you're worried about SMP situations, you do realise that presses are very easily duplicated once you have them. Sure, plate spawns are random, but a nice stroll with a meteorite compass can net you everything you need as long as you're patient enough to enjoy the journey rather than just want the end results. Ore spawns are random too! and you said things were gated behind! oh noes! (the point being that finding plates can be just as much a pain as finding charged quartz so yeah.)Ĭlick to expand.I think a lot of what you're upset about with AE2 is that it's now more time-intensive than it used to be. (It also doesn't overwhelm you with like 4 things to keep track of at once.) And the actually good way of adding engagement to tech mods. I'm not going to say 'Algo doesn't understand game design' because the actual features you use the mod for require you to think about how you design your systems. It's lazy padding, which is trying to provide a lull in action (or something?) in a game with almost no action. The fact that duplicate plates are fairly useless doesn't help either.Įxcept there is no good reason for them to take so long to grow. Oh my, AE2 is suddenly bad design!Īlso, it doesn't matter how much effort you put in if you're playing SMP and all the nearby meteors have been looted. And since you need all 4 plates to produce all the components you need for a full system, you're locked out until you get all four.

Now, I don't have a doctorate in randomness, but that seems pretty random to me.

Meteor spawns are random, and the plates you get from the meteors are random.

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