sinephase

most of that extra crap is so OP against zombies and skellies tell me, specifically, how they aren't arguments for PVP? anyway if you want to be constructive, suggesting finding balancing mods or something to add to the pack would make sense >_>

Talking to me? Cuz if you are, you can read between the lines there, buddy If not then I'll spell it out: There's no reason to not use hamachi, and if you're behind a router it's the easiest solution. Besides what I suggested if he's already forwarded the port, is connecting to his external IP and is still having connection issues, my best guess is it's a firewall problem blocking their IP's from connecting. But yeah more specific info for what you've actually tried will help.

that's fine and I"m not saying anyone "owes" us anything, but think about it this way: if it's anyone's task to balance it, it'd be the mod creators since they're the ones working with the code, etc. and they created tekkit the amount of work is a non-argument since all that work will fall onto the server owners themselves, therefore creating fragmented tweaks and versions of so-called "tekkit", otherwise you have unbalanced pvp Saying PvP is an afterthought is also moot since tekkit without PVP makes all the armor and weapons pretty much pointless, not to mention PVP has been around since before release. MC was released with PVP and PVP related potions and enchantment system. Anything before that was just in incomplete version of minecraft.

you don't have to set the server IP in the config file make sure in hamachi you set your friends as "trusted", allow their IPs through your software firewall and that should be it to test that your server is up you should both be able to connect through 127.0.0.1 and your hamachi IP address. You might get firewall alerts for both of those connections as well.

a decent solution has been to only disable the chest plate, that way people are still vulnerable. Problem balance-wise for this solution is that if you make the mistake of wearing nano armor chest plate and get attacked by a nano saber, you can get killed in about 3 hits o.O on a bit of a side note, it is the responsibility of the tekkit modders to balance the PVP experience since they're the ones combining the mods if I'm not mistaken. Sure getting the ability to modify the damage absorbance and weapon weaknesses for PVP server admins will be the IC teams job, but balancing the rest should be up to the people combining the mods. I've tried it out and basically even with only nano armor, the nano armor + nano saber combination owns all RM, DM weapons and armor and EE abilities. Surprisingly the only good thing to use against nano sabers beside quantum armor is plain old diamond armor...