[This needs to be fixed only] because no players will think when they lost their blueprint “shit, I’m such an idiot, why wouldn’t I install a backup?” But more like “Factorio, it’s your fault that I lost now my blueprint!!” I think the latter is the first thought whether or not you have a backup to...

And this show also the weak point in argumentation: those players which have problems with that don’t have a proper backup. Sure, software that misbehaves and causes data loss shouldn't be a major problem because you should have backups to recover from it. I don't think that in any way weakens the ...

Strictly speaking, highlighting the “last” car is useless and doesn’t help any, whereas highlighting the 6th car only helps those that build 6 car trains. Anyone who builds trains longer get no benefit, and any that build shorter still have to count in some manor or another. The number of cars show...

The possible explanation why this isn’t working as expected: Factorio was for a long time not invented to play it under Steam, the main focus was to sell it directly under their website. No cloud feature was planned. Yes; it seems to me the basic problem stems from the combination of the Steam clou...

yaim904 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:36 pm

I think you should check your calculation

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36288000 / ( 60 ^ 3 ) = 216000

You are seeing the result of the intermediate calculation (60^3 is 216000). Pressing "=" will show 168, or you need a better calculator.

[Immediate exit on clicking close is intended for] The same reason we don't highjack alt + F4: it's a signal from the user that they want the program closed *right now*. Thanks for the reply. I think it is valuable to have an explanation for "Not a bug" because in a users' eyes, unexpecte...

will have the same charge after a point in time Exactly. I knew that, but there was no reason to be that pedantic. Your statement was absolute. The first clause I wrote added missing qualification and was the main point. The rest of what I wrote explains that qualification, which necessarily concer...

All accumulators on the same net have the same charge. In practice that is usually the case, but it is not necessarily true (eg a newly placed accumulator has no charge). Each will consume or supply the same power until fully charged or discharged (respectively), so all accumulators will have the s...

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 28, 2022 6:05 pm

Thanks for the report however that is intended.

For what reason? Schadenfreude?

In addition to Tertius's comments (beat me to it), note that each accumulator charges/discharges at up to 300kW, so you need quite a few to avoid a "brownout" (low power) before you the switch turns on to connect steam engine power (three per steam engine allows as much to be supplied from...

"How little wood can a woodchuck chuck?"

All ups measures are relative. Absolutely, but for comparison purposes you want to: Minimise the overhead of things you are not testing (so the relative UPS of different but functionally equivalent designs is closest to their relative UPS effect). Maximise ease for others to repeat tests. Minimise ...

You can't, unless you mod the game. If you are creating a mod, the property you want to set is fast_replaceable_group . Huh? All normal chests in vanilla (wooden, iron, steel, active provider, passive provider, storage, buffer, requester) have fast_replaceable_group "container" and fast r...

After rereading FFF 361, you're right. Looks like I've missed that detail. There is an edge case we had to solve while working on the feature, what happens if the limit is lowered while a train is already on the way? Our first idea was to force all the trains that are on the way, to repath and find...

Productivity 3 is overkill for oil cracking. The capital cost is way more than the value of the crude oil you save. On what basis (genuine question)? Level 3 modules are costly, but you don't need many for oil cracking, so both capital cost (resources) and "payback time" (when you start s...

Isn´t heav oil more effective then light oil even if the damge would be same? Because you nee less crude oil for it? Crude oil + water makes more units of light oil from a unit of crude. i.e. assume water is endless cheap resource, then usage of light oil is not only more deadly, but also more effi...

https://wiki.factorio.com/Flamethrower_turret: Light oil gives 110% damage

Perhaps there is an internal tick count, and reset_time_played() doesn't actually reset it, just sets the base (initially zero) for computing ticks played. I can imagine various things breaking if it actually reset the tick count (for example, existing deconstruction orders would expire "too la...

What edge-cases do exist? Under which circumstances (besides from already existing and forbidden by game) can a flipped bp work differently? The only one I can think of is a consequence of inserters placing on the right lane of a belt facing away from/towards the inserter. A second inserter perpend...