Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.79.222.60-20130506144355/@comment-63.246.187.18-20130510102917

I would recommend using redpower's pneumatic tubes and fluid pipes over buildcraft's any day. They're much more reliable and never result in overflow. Redpower's not like IC2, EE, and to a lesser extent buildcraft. Those three add things that you need to invest in on their own. Redpower just adds things that enhance things that were already there. You'll never need to build, for example, a massive redpower blutricity power plant, because there are very few machines in redpower that even need power to start with, and those that do can make do with very little. But it would behoove you to make a massive IC2 EU power plant, a massive EE EMC power plant, and even possibly a massive Buildcraft Mj power plant. And, when you need to move things around those power plants to keep them working, I'd recommend using redpower machines like the filter, and when you need those machines to get redstone signal, I'd recommend using redpower's red alloy wires and redpower's redstone logic circuits. The only machine that it's maybe worth investing in in redpower is a blulectric alloy furnace. I set up a big thermopile array to power one of those, just because I kept needing to make filters and red alloy wires.