What makes compact routers "boring"? Making them smaller means they can be applied to more use-cases. 128x128 balancers are impressive but practically useless.

For me, a fix would require that my camera stops moving immediately (from the point of view of subjective "human time") after I have fully depressed all directional movement keys.

I have no position on what the best way to achieve that would be.

I agree that this is an important accessibility issue affecting users who suffer from motion sickness and maybe other visually driven neurological disorders. For me, it is a usability and quality of life issue. I spend most of my time inside Spidertron, but Spidertron wobbles when stopping. This mov...

Could Factorio SAT be used to discover better designs for routers?

Ah I think I messed up the wiring, try this: 0eNrdXNtu4zYQ/ZVAL32xC/EqKWj7FX0rFoZs01mhtiRQcrrpIv9eUkocX0iTnFmgbYpFgdjWjDiXw+Fc+D1b74+q1007Zo/fs60aNrrpx6Zrs8esbh+adqd00+mH51o3tf38wfzb1s/qsPnrp+HBPNA8tdkiG9q6X47d8kk3W0vpW/ZYsEX2kj2S/HWR1euh2x9HtbS/65v2KXsc9VEtsmbTtUP2+Mf3zBKq9/bZ8aVXhn0zqoOh3NYH+9em63...

Here is a 2-signal version with 60 beacons. It is almost perfect, it only wastes 3 ticks of activity on the middle inserter. I made a version that takes one full belt just for fun, because I know some users will prefer that even though half belts are better for UPS. I expect this to be worse than y...

will just get rid of the enable/disable entirely for 1.2 (it will be replaced with internally forcing limit to 0). There will be no longer "skip schedule record" behavior. Oh god, please don't do that. Especially not without talking to a lot of rail addicts about it first. I use that feat...

Tallywort wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:28 pm And IIRC Lane swaps tend to be bad as they lead to trains blocking both lanes for little gain.

This matches my experience. Trains feel free to switch lanes without any awareness of what is behind them, which causes a loss of throughput for no benefit.

After some additional testing I've thoroughly convinced myself that you are right and this is not a property of buffered intersections at all, but rather it's a consequence of how trains path in factorio more generally. That means this problem, while real, is off topic for this thread. Therefore, I'...

vinzenz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:10 am

ZwerOxotnik wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:40 pm I can't update and upload new mods on the mod portal.
I keep getting this:

Error: Failed to upload mod: Unknown error. (code: 500)

Sorry about that, I fixed the problem. Please try again.

I am getting 500s today as well. Is it the same problem?

Based on a little bit of my testing it seems that many buffered intersections out there encourage trains to turn rather than go straight. This may be because of the longer paths inside the intersection from the buffering. Regardless, it leads to high scores on the testbench, where only a single int...

Based on a little bit of my testing it seems that many buffered intersections out there encourage trains to turn rather than go straight. This may be because of the longer paths inside the intersection from the buffering. Regardless, it leads to high scores on the testbench, where only a single inte...

Can we have a separate category for on-patch smelting? I understand that that is best objectively but it is not really applicable to games using settings closer to default.

Alt-F4 blog has an interesting post on this topic that rekindled my interest.

I'm interested in this reddit post linked off this alt-f4 blog as well.

Didn't we decide that it's better NOT to include a separate clock mechanism with each smelter array? Rather, we want to use a single clock and link the circuit networks together, right?

I deleted the broken distribution from the portal because I wanted to iterate on the mod pack, so I've attached it here.

Nobody is saying that nuclear power infrastructure, including the fuel cell chains to keep it running, isn't more complex than that for solar, but you only have to design once (...disregarding the constant desire to "improve" designs). Solar presents a different challenge, at least partia...

As someone said, it better should be the real base with all the infrastructure. I disagree. This would introduce a variable: a reader might object "well, yeah, but that's what it did with YOUR base, maybe the impact will be different on MY base because of XYZ." I've recently discovered Fa...

Players have different motivation, I'm not sure if it is worth arguing about that. In no way am I arguing that anyone should not use Solar if it suits their purposes. I just CANNOT emphasize this enough. However, I do think that the often-repeated mantra that "if you are building a megabase, y...

I'm working on my own mod pack for convenience and so others can get a look at the mods I'm using when they ask. Version 0.0.1 of this mod is broken, because I entered `base >= ???` as a dependency in info.json, and "???" is not a version. I attempted to fix that in version 0.0.3. Locally,...