ambiguity (Balancing, Environment) Even though balancing can mean many things, there are still key elements that take place in them, which often can be handled using tags: Infinite resources is a balance aspect, just like removing it on oil. These are very clear balance changes. Adjusting biter dam...

The mod you specified as far as i know allows you to set the upper and lower boundary. And over time even causes depletion (although for my preference far too slow to realy influence the balance compared to a mod without depletion, hence i moved back to a mod with static value). Before starting a ga...

If im right a system of pipes is handled as if it is a single object with each exit/entry point having a seperate tracking point, and values are equaly spreaded out acros those mid sections. And the issue is that while a pipe section might show 0.333333, the system itself might have 5 entire units. ...

You aren't. You don't add up all the data points that go into each pixel. Instead it's a sliding window. As the graph advances the data point from "T-N" is subtracted and the data point for "T" is added. All the data points in between are carried over. Even for keyframes, it has...

A) Factorio is not though for that, far beyond of what’s needed in vanilla. The only issue i see is that for long durations, rather than taking a static point, you are going to take a bigger set of data to calculate, which adds load. But even here you can use keyframes for statistics. Each keyframe...

Heavy oil, light oil and petrolium gas have several extra issues regarding calculating raw values, because there are multiple ways to produce it. Most resources that are shown have only 1 way to produce those, so values are static in calculation. But with oil resources it varies a lot whether you us...

Im guessing he basicly means disassembling and taking it back to the ghost/blueprinted state.

But i think that this is going to simply create a conflict in which the bots will instantly try to rebuild. Which to me would be a reason to be against it.

Efficiency 2 and 3 are useless as final products, yes. But needed as an ingredient in power armour and spiders respectively. Note that power increases from other modules can be negated by those again. Which especialy with productivity modules can actualy generate extra parts without using extra ene...

It is quite common for games to not contain all the characters of unicode (unicode has a huge number of characters which can take quite some diskspace). And in the case of emoji's. i dont think its that much of a problem as those do contain a lot of hidden characters with them that make this signifi...

When using limits on train stops. Trains might often not be able to go to the destination. This means you often need to make a park where the trains can wait for a free spot to deliver resources. If they can't go to the destionation then they will remain at their last stop. That already is their pa...

TL;DR An option at a train that allows it to skip a train stop and instantly path to the next one (it wont try to pass the train stop at all). What ? Normaly when you set a schedule, you want to describe the stops it can go to. When using limits on train stops. Trains might often not be able to go ...

All that being said, I don't think many people would activate the option themselves. It would usualy get activated when players run into trouble, which is exactly the moment when this info would be welcome. For those who never run into issues, there is no need to activate it as to them the mod work...

So basicly instead of it actualy being trainstops, you effectively want to have named signals so you can force routes of trains more accurately? A new structure for this could indeed help. I still think bidirectional stops are a bad idea. But on that, could it help if the train stops also show the i...

The thing is, both trainstops generaly provide diffirent purposes as depending on direction, the train stops at a diffirent side. Even with a double stop, you need to know which side the train needs to stop at. So you still end up with 2 diffirent stops. And they idealy should get 2 diffirent names ...

Defense bots to me are probably going to suffer from a delayed deployment, in which the attack is most likely already destroyed before they reach the defense. But on that, they can act as a very good second line of defense in case the defense is about to get overrun, or to counter spitters which can...

You can use the "as if" principal there. You behave as if there were no lag and calculate the lag or latency away. You can timestamp actions with sub tick accuracy and factor them into the simulation even after the fact. So if the player hits "W" mid frame calculations you regis...

And players noticed. That's why the game now has a bunch of predictive and latency hiding code. All lag should be 0 frames. Most games have 2 or more frames. That's why people say you need to play at 120fps or more in many action games. Even though the monitor probably only has 60Hz you still benef...

To make nuclear easier. A few thing to consider is that you want to consume less u235 than you are producing. And because of randomness, this is unreliable. And thats why you early game, unless you know what you are doing, you should avoid it. The kovarex process however ensures a steady flow of u23...

That said, if your bots are off by just one pixel and then jump to the right spot always at the same distance from the goal that becomes noticeable. Since it's totally uneccessary the idea is bad. No, the animation is off by 1 frame, and just delays its rendering by 1 frame. You dont see any warpin...

Any case like that you don't calculate at all every tick. You simply record the start time and speed and if anything needs the current state it's calculated straight from that. And that remains frame accurate. For machines this can be done, because you generaly only need the accurate state when you...