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[Xenthera]

Ok, It's obvious what this about.

I personally don't like Tekkit, here are some things I dislike:

• Didn't get permission for all of the mods. Which caused forestry to be coded by Sengir to be incompatible bringing me to my next point
  
• No forestry.
  
• 85% of the Tekkit community is 10-12 year old noobs that whine to you on how to use the mods. (My experience at least)
  
• If a mod gets updated, it will be ages until Tekkit gets that version.
  
• With big tekkit updates, they change a bunch of id's causing previous worlds to become corrupt

Although there is no hope that I will ever play on a tekkit client, It wouldn't be fair just to state my dislikes. Here are some things I like about tekkit:

• Ease of use.
  
• Cool Launcher
  
• Cool graphics / art

So that's MY opinion, if you don't like it, I don't care. Please post your opinions down below, and vote.

Thanks guys

[Alekisan]

I would like to simply say that I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with Tekkit.
While it is frustrating that updates to mods can take a long time to make their way into Tekkit, you have to understand that in order to make everything work together, alot of work has to be put into the mod. Sometimes the MOD developer does not do this work themselves.

Tekkit is an incredible collection of mods that add an incredible amount of content to Minecraft.

Hopefully, once Minecraft has the mod API built in then the process of making mods work together will be much easier.

[BigSHinyToys]

Alekisan, on 06 August 2012 - 12:30 AM, said:

I would like to simply say that I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with Tekkit.
While it is frustrating that updates to mods can take a long time to make their way into Tekkit, you have to understand that in order to make everything work together, alot of work has to be put into the mod. Sometimes the MOD developer does not do this work themselves.

Tekkit is an incredible collection of mods that add an incredible amount of content to Minecraft.

Hopefully, once Minecraft has the mod API built in then the process of making mods work together will be much easier.

while I agree with most of what you say the underlined really aggravates me.Mods are made by people what want to add to the game. Wither or not it is compatible with every other mod in existence is not something they have time to test Nor is it there responsibility to make there mod compatible.

They may choose to be compatible But can't and Shouldn't be forced to.

[Noodle]

I love tekkit! It allows many things to be added to keep minecraft more fun. Although all the mods might not work 100% the developers of tekkit can't work on them. They can change some of the files, or at least the names, to make them compatible. Many of the ID's are the same with normal materials which is why they might do this. The result of this is errors in the files but I mean what can they do? Its not like they can recode the files, only the mod makers can.

[Sxw]

I don't like tekkit.
Point One: I like installing my own mods. Its fun in the does it work moment.
Point Two: They didn't get perm for mods. So we have exploding bees in forestry.
Point Three: Outdated mods.
At first glance, thatssssss a very nice modpack you've got there.

[Pharap]

I love tekkit. It avoids the frustration of trying to get mods to work normally (some are easy, like rei's minimap, others are really hard to get to work, let alone get to be compatible with others).

If some mods are used without permission, the modders should take the tekkit creators to court or something, it's no good just complaining and not actually doing anything about it.

If you dislike the public servers, host your own so you can choose who uses it.

Being slow to update is understandable, programming isn't a cakewalk. Getting mods to agree with each other is difficult normally, let alone without having to manage loads of mods with loads and loads of code. When you have hundreds of lines of code and a single typo or forgotten semicolon can cause the entire program to crash or not even compile, things are bound to be difficult. Besides, the creators have their own lives to live, not everyone wants to be programming all the time.

The Id thing is an unfortunate side effect, but you can easily fix that with mcedit by replacing certain blocks with other blocks so that they'll load properly with the new version.

[Xenthera]

Pharap, on 06 August 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

If you dislike the public servers, host your own so you can choose who uses it.

No need to use Tekkit. I have my own server that I can customize to my liking which includes mods that haven't even officially been released as smp to the public. It doesn't take rocket science to get a bunch of mods to work together. Just change a few id's here and there. Trust me, it's very simple with an occasional road bump here and there.

[Pharap]

Xenthera, on 06 August 2012 - 03:01 AM, said:

Pharap, on 06 August 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

If you dislike the public servers, host your own so you can choose who uses it.

No need to use Tekkit. I have my own server that I can customize to my liking which includes mods that haven't even officially been released as smp to the public. It doesn't take rocket science to get a bunch of mods to work together. Just change a few id's here and there. Trust me, it's very simple with an occasional road bump here and there.

Then your thing about the 10 year olds on tekkit servers isn't really a valid complaint.

[Xenthera]

Pharap, on 06 August 2012 - 03:08 AM, said:

Then your thing about the 10 year olds on tekkit servers isn't really a valid complaint.

Of course it is... That's the one of the reasons I stopped using tekkit.

[Pharap]

Xenthera, on 06 August 2012 - 03:13 AM, said:

Pharap, on 06 August 2012 - 03:08 AM, said:

Then your thing about the 10 year olds on tekkit servers isn't really a valid complaint.

Of course it is... That's the one of the reasons I stopped using tekkit.

No it isn't. If you say you have your own server that you customise with mods and stuff, it means you are capable of making your own server, thus meaning complaining about public servers is invalid since you are using your own server (which won't have 'whining 10 year olds' whether you use tekkit or not).

[D3matt]

Xenthera, on 05 August 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

• No forestry.
  
• 85% of the Tekkit community is 10-12 year old noobs that whine to you on how to use the mods. (My experience at least)

Foresty is highly overrated anyway, in my book. (Much like EE, but that's beside the point)

Although you are 100% correct about the community (Including the moderators and devs who act like powertripping 16 year olds), it's simple enough to just never visit the forums (and never post your server there). And it's not like the vat majority of minecraft isn'r full of 10-12 year olds anyway.

As for the permission bullcrap... Should they have asked, yes. Am I going to let that stop me from enjoying the mod pack? No, why the hell should I?

[Pinkishu]

I kinda like tekkit

@Permissions stuff: Yeah, yeah they don't have permissions, blah. You know it doesn't exactly help modpacks when every mod goes "OMZG DON'T ASK ABOUT ADDING IT TO PACKS" in their thread />
Tekkit is good for the community.

I also quite like Tekkit cause it seems one of the few packs to include most of the mods i'm interested in. Also if you want to find a server you can search Tekkit and you know mostly what mods to find on there, try doing that with 30 individual mods /> Since theres no good server search..

[Cloudy]

Thank you for keeping it respectful so far. I know Tekkit feelings are often strong. I'll weigh in with my opinion later once I'm on my computer />

[Cruor]

the only thing i like about tekkit is the concept behind it with ease of use, meaning everybody can use it, and that it is fairly easy to find a servers using it. What i don't like at all is that they lied to us about getting permissions. So TL;DR i like the concept, not they way it was done.

Im fine with people using the pack, but personaly i prefer to build my own .minecraft to get what i want instead of preset stuff that is a nightmare to work around />

[MadCrayolaz]

Honestly, if the only thing that Tekkit is useful for is its easy of installation, then it is easily defunct. I already create installers for my server for people who don't use mods. It's easy to use, and is approved so far by all the mod owners. I can't imagine why you need to use Tekkit if there are better programs out there.

[MadCrayolaz]

Pharap, on 06 August 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

When you have hundreds of lines of code and a single typo or forgotten semicolon can cause the entire program to crash or not even compile, things are bound to be difficult.

Silly line delimiters...

[Pinkishu]

MadCrayolaz, on 06 August 2012 - 05:35 PM, said:

Honestly, if the only thing that Tekkit is useful for is its easy of installation, then it is easily defunct. I already create installers for my server for people who don't use mods. It's easy to use, and is approved so far by all the mod owners. I can't imagine why you need to use Tekkit if there are better programs out there.

1 Installer vs 50

also as i pointed out its not only useful for installing

[MadCrayolaz]

Pinkishu, on 06 August 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

MadCrayolaz, on 06 August 2012 - 05:35 PM, said:

Honestly, if the only thing that Tekkit is useful for is its easy of installation, then it is easily defunct. I already create installers for my server for people who don't use mods. It's easy to use, and is approved so far by all the mod owners. I can't imagine why you need to use Tekkit if there are better programs out there.

1 Installer vs 50

also as i pointed out its not only useful for installing

Yoy do know that that's not PART of Tekkit. It's part of their website. I guess since noone else has come up with a better advertising way than Tekkit has, there is no competition.

[Pinkishu]

MadCrayolaz, on 06 August 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

Pinkishu, on 06 August 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

MadCrayolaz, on 06 August 2012 - 05:35 PM, said:

Honestly, if the only thing that Tekkit is useful for is its easy of installation, then it is easily defunct. I already create installers for my server for people who don't use mods. It's easy to use, and is approved so far by all the mod owners. I can't imagine why you need to use Tekkit if there are better programs out there.

1 Installer vs 50

also as i pointed out its not only useful for installing

Yoy do know that that's not PART of Tekkit. It's part of their website. I guess since noone else has come up with a better advertising way than Tekkit has, there is no competition.

Hm? what is part of their website? Oo

[Pharap]

MadCrayolaz, on 06 August 2012 - 05:35 PM, said:

Honestly, if the only thing that Tekkit is useful for is its easy of installation, then it is easily defunct. I already create installers for my server for people who don't use mods. It's easy to use, and is approved so far by all the mod owners. I can't imagine why you need to use Tekkit if there are better programs out there.

Because tekkit is easy to run and use. It's much quicker to run one jar than copy these files into this jar, make sure you load things in this order, extract all 25 of these documents et cetera et cetera.

It's like the whole linux vs mac vs windows arguement. Everyone has an OS they prefer for their own reasons. Sure you can get linux and then download all the windows programs like word and office, but if you don't want to be doing all the installing, you can just get windows. It's a similar concept.