What are balancers?

Don't worry about advanced topics like balancers and other "established" ways to build things too much if you're just starting out. Enjoy tinkering and coming up with your own solutions when problems come up, just use trial and error.

Once you've seen someone else's clever ...

Attach Notes is also related.

- Bottleneck mod


Give Bottleneck Lite a try. It takes advantage of newer APIs, eliminating performance overhead. The original can have quite an impact on UPS on big bases. Comparison of lite to the original from the mod portal page:

Pros

Zero runtime overhead
Instant responsiveness ...