For real bonus points, what's the theoretical max rockets you can launch assuming I iron, C copper, O oil, and A coal, and S stone. For simplicity, you can create a function just using the most used resource (Copper I believe) if you prefer. Funny hacks for cuteness points, but something a bit more ...

It's a game, so "Bored of it", I imagine is the (mostly) universal answer. What inspires boredom? That's probably rather subjective.. For me, is when there aren't any challenges or puzzles left, or the challenges are ones I've previously overcome and have no desire to optimize.

Yeah, that'd be rather useful. No clue on how easy it would be to implement though. You'd have to know the code to make that observation credibly. Regressions are always a risk.

Here's the complete playlist, btw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSCof0DliEVFn1jYcy6BJtteAtueOFe22 Apparently there is a track called "Beyond factory outskirts." Perhaps that implies that it is synchronized with activity? I never noticed. This is the one that I found objectionable...

Yeah, I have to sort of agree with the OP. I found the music pretty sickening as well after a period of time. Other sounds as well, like mining, I found myself unconsciously muting it by keeping the inventory window open as it was very grating. To be fair though, Wube was trying to do something dari...

T-A-R wrote: reduce crossings

yeah, semaphores are evil. undermined by our own cleverness.

Looked into this. Doable, but very hacky as you can't get bp orientation.

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I added a couple of patches as the enhanced throughput was eating through what I had too fast. This required a couple more trains. You can see how it will start to scale. I timed it, 294 wagons are unloaded every 3.5 minutes in the single base, enough for about ~2k spm in default (ignoring white sci...

Sigh, no, I did not. And here I thought I found a bug. Factorio is too stable! Well done.

The rest of his surrounding friends deconstructed fine using the same planner. It just blips at me as if there is nothing in the planner. Using ctrl-x will delete it.

I will say, watching the long trains is very boring. Like a very reliable clock that just goes round and round, never doing anything exciting. Nothing clever or complex, no problems to solve. It's like using an infinity chest for your production source. What I built before was much more fun, if not ...

Well, it was an experiment in grid computing :) I really can't see any rational argument for short trains. Esthetics and playing around with signaling and what passes for an (ahem) as pathing, yes, but throughput? The math doesn't add up. One long train can carry 42 wagons of input, with no delay, j...

It's certainly possible. I once made a base built around 8-48 trains. It hit 10K spm but main bottleneck was the main railroad of 8 tracks, because of the slow trains blocking intersections for a long time. My current project has the trains upgraded to 8-48-8, and a decentralized rail network to re...

Perhaps, though you could theoretically say that about a lot of the datastructures.

One issue I realize now on further reading is desync. Looks like a lot of obvious apis are missing as they would cause issues in MP, though I imagine custom input would be OK.

Why is it annoying that different resources share the same train? I was thinking, given the queue and how it will work, the only delay will be the time for the last stop as all trains will be queued up behind it. eg: Let's say you have a 42 long cargo train. It has outpost / input stops: copper, iro...

This doesn't happen to belts, or if it does, the robots will fix it: Screenshot 2021-02-13 144015.png Any tips on dealing with this situation? It's very irritating, biters always seem to find a way through my defenses (DW marathon) It's true, with belts I have to create a network of bots, but with t...

The data table is destroyed? Curious how you know that. Any links / code describing that process? https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Data-Lifecycle.html Yeah, I had read that, but I didn't really interpret that being the data table being destroyed. I would have assumed it would have at least been ...

The data table is destroyed? Not copied or cloned? I guess private variables are private.

Shame. I don't really want to publish mods, but I don't mind sharing code.

Supported in map mode and other views as well would be great. Very surprised there is no API already for this.

Is it possible to add a prototype via console? Eg, want to add a custom input. calling data:extend just says there is no data global, but perhaps there is another, even if hacky way to do this. It'd be nice to do through console so I can share /c snippets with others without having them to go throug...