It's not just the overlay. I got the cloudflare errorpage when I opened the discord app. The problem seems intermittent. If you try again it sometimes works like normal and sometimes you get the "blocked" page.

This riddle was also on reddit. So i will copy some answers from there and add my two cents to them. Kejser Kagespiser : The answer is yes you can get infinite rockets. All you need is to get productivity over 100% and you can get infinite ores by deconstructing the miner before the nonproductivity ...

I don't see any signals on those screenshots. But I do see that the flaydo station marker is below the tracks which means it can only be approached from the left. To fix this move the station above the tracks.

Factorio is not a 3D game, so it probably never fully occupy your GPU. After all, many parts of your GPU are made to compute/render 3D graphics and remain unused when running a 2D game. That is not how it works. GPU usage measures the amount of GPU core cycles that do not have an instruction loaded ...

windows 10 has a feature called disk write caching. Basically it means that windows can decide to not write a file into your hard-drive right away. It just writes the file headers to the hard-drive and keeps the rest in ram. If there is other reads/writes going on it can take several minutes before ...

First step would be to login to the factorio user and navigate to the saves folder and run the command "touch test.tmp" and then look if a file named test.tmp is created. If it does then we can rule out permission issues. Then next we should check to see if there is enough space on the disk. You can ...

Do you guys know how pathfinding algorithms work? Umm yes we do. Splitting up a straight line segment into several of them is not going to affect performance in a well-designed path-finding algorithm. E.g. maintain a connected graph that only has nodes at intersections or when the rail signal ...

I would like to see another game even try 1600k entities with 600k active do better.

To make this work the server would need to keep copies of all saves all clients make and make a diff file when the player joins back based on what save they have. This diff file would not be that much smaller than a regular save and the amount of saves the server would need to keep would be massive ...

Anyone have experience with the newer Intel i9 series? They support quad channel RAM. Could make a big difference if that is part of the problem.


Clearly, quad channel will not improve your gaming experience over dual channel (at least with Intel CPU, I don't know the impact on AMD CPU). You ...

Ptitlaby wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:05 pmI can now connect to my server

Yey. Have fun playing.

Since the packets are reaching the machine but are not reaching factorio's server my quess is that there is a firewall present on the machine that prevents it. Do you happen to know what OS the server is using? Most linux distros use iptables for firewall. You can check by running iptables -L It ...

Hello folks,

I'm trying to set up a remote server for factorio 0.17.74. I installed the headless server on a dedicated server, and I am using the Steam client. As you can guess, it doesn't connect

I launch the server with this command line :

bin/x64/factorio --start-server saves/test.zip ...

For A* to work the heuristic must never report a distance larger than what it actually is. As long as that remains true A* will find the shortest path. The better the heuristic the faster it finds it usually. A heuristic of H() = min([<distance to each goal>]) fits the requirement. I was too tired ...

For double headed trains you search with A* starting at the destinations. Then you expand the paths from each station backwards till one of them hits the segment the train is in. Why would you need to search twice?
Because the ends are not neccessarily in the same segment. If you have a 100+ car ...

Thanks, once again it shows: A picture says more than a thousand words.
I understand. Pathfinding and especially A* is a subject that is not obvious without visual examples. Also if you google A* stuff the internet is full of misinformation posted by people who do not understand how A* actually ...

A* expands the path where |path| + H() is the cheapest. The heuristic H() must not overestimate the cost to reach the goal. It usually underestimates it relative to the amount of path remaining. Until here you are correct. With many paths of identical cost that means the paths that have been ...

If I did say it was using A* in the past and it's not then I was wrong. Regardless of what algorithm it's using I have implemented a few optimizations on top of the code to improve performance so if someone thinks they might have ideas about how to make it even faster I'd love to hear them. In that ...

Also someone should correct the wiki https://wiki.factorio.com/Railway/Train_path_finding . It claims A* is used when it is actually djikstra. And those two are infact different algorithms.

Well, do you have a reliable source for it being djikstra? I cannot find an FFF that says whether it is ...

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=52635


OHGODS. It's a djikstra. The only thing djikstra has over A* is that it is easier to implement. No wonder big railnetworks with lots of intersections are slow.


If you say so. The only time I've ever seen rail path finding being "slow" is ...