Minimize use of belts. The entity count is what is killing performance. Use trains or bots more, or hell, cars on belts. More technically, it is a combination of both the items on the belts and the inserters, but going from container to machine will reduce inserter operations by a factor of the ins...

@waduk yeah my FPS is about the same.

My processor is an intel i7 4710-HQ, and yeah I was getting about 5-10 fps by my estimate (I didn't have the fps counter showing).

Yeah, I think all the belts really murder the performance here. Maybe this is an area that could use some optimization?

@ssilk thanks for the kind words

@waduk the save is uploaded if ypu want to have a look around the factory. As for the google maps thing, the only really interesting stuff is what you can see in the screenshots already. The external mines etc are pretty basic.

Fuck. And I thought I build big when I used about 2 blue belts of iron and copper... I still think there is a couple of things that can be better planned, like wire-plastics-advanced ratio at advanced circuits. I also like how you don't overly use bots. The red circuit system was like that on purpo...

Hey all, I thought it would be interesting to build a factory based on optimizing productivity. If enemies aren't a concern, and you're on full solar power, a productivity-oriented factory seems to make the most sense if you want to really crank up module production. I also wanted to try to make a f...

http://i.gyazo.com/e049732cee148260a329e3efb0285e41.png Yes, fast inserters sometimes get stuck placing on the end of a belt. It's not something that always happens though, they just get stuck every now and then. Manually rebuilding them will 'unstick' them. EDIT: further testing shows that this ha...

Inserters will no longer place items onto underground belt entrances.



This seems to have broken a fair few things in my factory

(I also get the science visuals bug, but there's nothing game-breaking there)

One of the subjects that hasn't been brought up (AFAIK) is the fact that powers-of-two stacks can be split in perfect halves forever. That, along with the exponential growth, are the only advantages of the 2^x system that I can see. Saying it makes trains less effective is just silly because it's ri...

Hey all,

I managed to kill all the biters in New Hope 3, but I have looked everywhere and cannot find the computer.

Here's a screenshot:



Is this a bug? or am I missing something?

I'm having this issue too (esc isn't working), no mods.

Sweet, thanks for the quick reply.

Hey all, I have two separate rail networks in one area - one is a looping single-direction train for oil collection, and one is a push-me-pull-you for copper. To get to a new oil deposit, it looks like I have to make one of the tracks intersect and cross over the other track. I've had a look into th...