Currently the transition phase from MV to HV is a very slow and grueling process, as almost every machine needs an expensive me interface and literal stacks of patterns in order to get through HV smoothly and without spending hundreds of hours doing everything by hand. Also, most recipes in omnifactory generally speaking have some kind of simple, 3x3 grid crafting form that requires more resources and less existing infrastructure, and a cheaper version that requires less resources however more existing infrastructure. The blank pattern lacks this, and requires dozens of tier 3 circuits before more efficient ways of obtaining them arise. I believe that the blank pattern should have an alternative recipe in the HV assembler, requiring the same ingredients, but with 720mb of liquid polyethylene, and a power requirement of 480 eu/t. This would encourage players to pursue a basic HV setup earlier on, and make it easier to automate the majority of machines in the pack.

Closing: stale issue and we don't intend to implement this suggestion.

Having witnessed many players on two or three servers (CL , MMCC, Private) this is one of the major crunch point at which something in the order of 50%+ bail the pack, they simply find the grind too hard to get automaton up and running. I'd suggest an alternative to the above but based on the same principle. Maybe an earlier game recipe using MV materials but with only 1 or 2 patterns given?

Ultimately it doesn't avoid the eventual grind, i always recommend players make a stack of patterns to become self sufficient (i.e. patters/recipes to make more patterns) but this would help them get over the initial hurdle.

Honestly, I think it's a good way to motivate players to push for automation ASAP, as otherwise the patterns would be a massive pain to create.
If that's really a problem, one possible solution would be to make an exception to the coin-only-rewards policy and reward 32-64 patterns for the first AE quest, as a bootstrap.

The point of the pack is to automate. You have all the machine and resource infrastructure in place to automate your production of patterns when you make your first pattern. All you have to do is make it do it on its own.

If you're smart about your planning, the first pattern you will encode is blank patterns, followed by the dependencies to make them. Then you make more patterns, and encode them to make your AE autocrafting system capable of all but expanding itself on request.