First of, this bug is what we, developers, call a silent failure. Meaning that it fails and the game works as if everything is fine and the behavior was by design. But it clearly doesn't work. No matter how you want to rationalize your point, this is a fact you cannot deny.
It works when you are near the spawn region so it's even worst because it works in some circumstances only.
Obviously this is to be avoided at all cost because it creates a lot of tech support, unsurprisingly (or forum support or whatever you want to call it). So the developers could do something about it. Whether by fixing it or through documentation, tutorials, warning messages, naming the world anchor something easier to figure out or else they have to accept to do tech/forum support and hire moderators that aren't rude to people.
And yes it can be fix, permanently. Every chunk with wires/pipes in it could be loaded/updated (i.e. wires would have the same effect as world anchor). That would also prevent excessive use of world anchors and avoid loading unnecessary chunks.
Not fixing it or not using world anchors can cause massive lags as items in transport pipes will drop when reaching an unloaded chunk, dropping items until you can't even get to 0.1 FPS. This is a serious issue.
I can understand if this would cause lag on overly populated servers, but I wonder what is the difference between this solution and putting world anchors everywhere you need it.
There are also numerous ways to optimize this. But anyway, that is up to the dev, they obviously aren't obligated in any way to do anything about this and that is perfectly fine. I'm just trowing ideas.
Also I read a lot of tutorials on tekkit and specifically wires, none talked about the world anchors. I searched the forum for this issue and found nothing. This needs more visibility. The simpliest way to "fix" this is to make a page with possible bugs that can be fixed with world anchors. That should cover the wires, machines, MFSUs, pipes, redstone and maybe other things I do not know exist in tekkit yet. This looks like a task for a mod. If such page exist, then add my bug description to it please.
Anyway If I were a moderator here I would do this right now as it would save a lot a work in the future (and apparently a lot of frustration).
Who in their right mind makes a game (or game mod) and say such things to players. This is insane. I know you are not the one who made tekkit and it shows but you still represent it. It's the official tekkit forum, right? Am I wrong? It is your duty to respect players. How did you get a mod rank anyway? You must know someone in the admins or something fishy like that because personally I would never accept a mod as disrespectful as you.
That would have gotten us nowhere and you know it. So deal with it.
I don't need to argue with you when you give bad advices. As I said numerous times, this is secondary to the situation here. I don't even care about your bad advices. All I care about is that you stop being rude to people. You are not achieving anything good with that kind of attitude.
So you're basically telling me that this forum is all about being unjustifiably rude and stuff and I should know it. Not sure other moderators would agree with you.
So should I be rude with you too? Is it a rule or something?
I can't tell for other moderators but if they are all like that, this must have a very bad effect on the community.
Hell - The Forum: ask questions, get bad advices by rude moderators. I hope it's not even close to that. I obviously have a biased point of view since I only experienced Jay? bad support.
I still can count on the other guys like Wendo and Sp0nge to get actual good friendly support. And guys like mnn and you to back people getting angry mod support at them. You guys should be the moderator around here.
I agree with you. :)