...I'm redoing this. It's nice n cheap to make, but it's tedious and error-prone to manually set that to-belt inserter at each factory for whatever product being made there. Also I want to redo that with space for a pipe input/output from each assembler. BOY I WISH Assemblers would output a signal f...

Things that must be configured on-site: constant combinators, assemblers, onto-line inserters, "requester chest" near the feeder/refeeder if you want to automatically get a user-defined number/type of items off the production loop, either as a mall or to send elsewhere. Configurable to mak...

@manauser yes, that would be extremely helpful. I think signals are "hard" only because important stuff isn't clearly communicated to me as a player - not because the system is "bad". I guess one of the problems I didn't clearly articulate is that you CAN see some things by hover...

My 2 cents. Things in-game information doesn't teach about trains: 1. Placing a signal on only one side of the track makes it a 1-way track, but nothing clearly told me this; trains unable to enter are simply stopped with a mystifying "NO PATH" popping out of them: nothing ANYWHERE tells m...

Really, just reading the entire belt is more precise and scales easier to have multiple assemblers setup on the same belt loop: 1 station to feed items onto the belt until the full count of items actually on the belt meets or exceeds live demand (constant output from consumer chests), 1 station to p...

I'd love to see a picture of that, mrvn. What I was thinking, In other words, is that it would really nice to tag a piece of steel on a belt for a specific factory - like the assembler can send a signal over to some inserter that unloads 5 plates, and those 5 plates are tagged (when unloaded onto th...

What I'm trying to accomplish with circuit network: An Iron chest has < 50 plates (and it needs 25 more) I want the inserter at the source chest (that feeds the belt) to unload exactly 25 plates and put them on the belt headed towards the Iron Chest. I can't figure out how to get the inserter at the...

I wish assemblers (et al, like research stations) would broadcast what they currently need for their current recipe on the circuit network. The ability to accomplish "Unload from storage and send 5 iron plates and 5 copper plates down the main bus to assembler #17" would be...exciting.

...and now we need combat robots that can accept commands as an alternative to turrets everywhere

Problem: Whereas bots don't take up space on the ground, belts do - therefore less throughput-per-area. Proposal: allow building belts on top of other belts. Descriptive advantages: 1. Takes 1 new sprite, a covered 'belt tunnel' (think like a server rack). 2. Clicking on a 'belt tunnel' square bring...

EQUIPMENT GRIDS ON VEHICLES DSJLKFADJSLKFJASLKFADSJKLFSDJKLFSADJKLFDSAJKLF PLEASE GIVE VEHICLES AN ATTRIBUTE LIKE THIS!!! EquipmentSlots = { {name="gun-slot-0", Allowed = {type="vehicle-machinegun",type="tank-cannon",type="rocket-launcher"}, {name="gun-sl...

I really, really want this. I hate using belts end-game because the mass-moving of raw resources becomes so bottlenecked at the inserters because the stack size bonus can't apply when inserters pick up one thing at a time from a belt! Also belts are just more messy in my opinion late-game - using bo...