MassiveDynamic wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:39 pm Can you do it for base rate of 5 red and 6 green?

So you mean 5 red to 6 green?

I could. But why? You always need 1 green per 1 Red science, so I don't see a point

DaveMcW wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 12:52 pm Challenge: Can you do it without splitters or underground belts?

I could, but then it wouldn't be as compact and would overproduce ingredients (unless I could also use circuitry, then maybe I could make it not overproduce)

https://i.ibb.co/kqz6XzD/perfect-1-to-1-ratio-GR-science-hub.png

features:

Produces Red and Green Science at a perfect 1:1 ratio

Does not overproduce anything (gears/belts/inserters/circuits/wires)

Only requires basic red science technologies

Compact design

With basic assemblers produces 24 ...

Are you kidding me, lately I've been playing exclusively either Factorio or Starsector - this is pretty much made for me

Impatient wrote: Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:31 pm

You can prevent this in particular by simply setting a priority and filter of an item that is NOT used (like fish) to the output of the splitter, where no item should go.

That is true, didn't think of that

What happens if the drain jams? Or runs at half speed?


Items per second cannot exceed max belt throughput. This applies to slower belts as well as jammed belts. If this happens it is not going to send all the items in the desired timeframe. Some items might also get stuck on the unconnected ...

I am using efficiency modules, it's just a bit hard to see in that screenshot. Here's higher res version (zoom in to see):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Blx4vJ3srx_-vA4PNPv5ghgNX8D6YU-/view?usp=sharing

Also in a factory the pollution generation is heavily weighted towards mining drills and ...

I made a thing, maybe someone can find a use for it.
mixer.gif
What it does:
sends a number of different items every X seconds over a single belt
Currently it's set to send 120 Blue Circuits, 80 Electric engines, 60 Low Density Structures, 50 Efficiency 2 Modules, 50 Speed 2 Modules every 12 ...

Deathworld you say?

I'd like to present to you my Pacifist Deathworld run so far (pacifist = not allowed to kill biters):


That is quite interesting, if I had to take a guess on how you did this I'd say you would turn off your factory every now and then and wait for the pollution to be ...

One can get away with zero defenses, even without clearing all nearby nests. ;)

The point is: Biters are rather trivial to deal with, specially at the start. It's just like making power, it's supposed to be easy because it's not even the main focus of the game.

I wouldn't say deathworld biters ...

Small biters are just super easy to cheese, and I don't think that's unintentional either.

Anyway, clearing bases is just half of the equation. You kinda have to defend that territory or biters will just expand right back into it. Specially since clearing many spawners drives up evolution meaning ...

AmericanPatriot wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:15 pm
the same reason people use Madzuri loaders

TBH i fail to see that reason especially when it comes to loading trains. What does the Madzuri Loader do that the 1-to-6 balancer does not, other than sounding cool?

...Why not just use a 1x6 belt balancer?
https://i.imgur.com/ineHz3V.png

Seems to do everything you want it to do and doesn't require circuits while having higher throughput

Distribute items evenly across all staging chests for fastest loading times [check]
Handle multiple item types without ...

So yeah, while I do think it's amusing, if we are talking balance then Fish may be a tiny bit overpowered. Maybe instead of insta-healing they should regenerate health over time, that way they don't make you semi-unkillable


Eating one fish heals about 30% of max health and it has a cooldown ...

Fish conflict with grenades and other capsules, which means that if you are healing, you have significantly lower dps.


Not really, the cooldown is pretty much non existent, you can heal back to full in the time it would take to throw three grenades (and you can throw grenades very quickly ...

I'm not entirely serious on this, I don't really think Fish break the game or anything - that said fish are extremely potent when you realise biters pretty much can't kill you as long as you have enough fish in your eq. I just do this:
1) get to grenades and steel armor
2) mass produce grenades
2a ...

Thank you, that tip on how to search the docs really helped and I was able to get it to work. Turns out the script expected these entities to still be ghosts down the line so I just changed that. And yeah the brackets were also a problem but they're there just cuz I was fiddling with the code and ...

I want to modify a mod script that's placing a blueprint on a surface, so that instead of ghosts it would place real entities. I believe this is the part that's responsible for placing down the blueprint

local entitiesBuilt = blueprint.build_blueprint{
surface=surface, force=entity.force ...

If you try to run your computer at 50% power, it won't boot. That is much much better than producing all sorts of garbage outputs. Even in real life, fast fail behavior is far preferable to intermittent and erratic behavior for the exact same reasons.

You can however, as I said, run a CPU ...

If you try to run your computer at 50% power, it won't boot. That is much much better than producing all sorts of garbage outputs. Even in real life, fast fail behavior is far preferable to intermittent and erratic behavior for the exact same reasons.

You can however, as I said, run a CPU with ...