User blog comment:Funk1983/EE or not to EE/@comment-5416864-20120918144651

The way it seems to me is is Redpower is for people who like setting up intricate and complicated automated systems; IC2 / BC is for people who want to be powerful, but only after investing an enormous amount of time and effort into it, so they can feel justified in being powerful; and EE is for people who just like to be powerful with no effort.

1 week of effort with EE means you could have a diamond being pumped out literally every second or two... but don't really know where to go from there, so you get bored. 1 week of effort with IC2 / BC and you'll have a couple quarries, maybe a reactor or some HV solar arrays, getting into a mass fabricator for the quantum armor, but you still have teleportation, forcefields, terraformer and plenty of other stuff to look forward to.

Obviously different people will proceed at different paces - some may get to teleportation or a diamond a second within a couple days. Others might take weeks... or even never get to that point.