but then what would the firing research increase ?


Sorry, I should clarify. It would make more sense that it just shows "active" continuously while firing. Instead of rapid-flickering "low power". Increasing speed/damage should still increase the damage-per-second applied to targets however

I wonder if the firing rate is a "left over" from when the turret would originally fire distinct "bullets" (similar to a blaster in Star Wars for instance) versus now where it's simply a continuous beam

It seems like it would make more sense that the turret can operate at 100% power continuously ...

Using lasers is absolutely silly and was done mainly as a joke, though seems to actually work fairly well, at least at present!

Stuffing the ship full of accumulators was our first thought, as the power did spike past what the reactors could provide. But as you noted they don't seem to be providing ...

Hi team,

Playing with the new space platform. We built a 2 reactor nuclear setup (about 185 MW of total production capacity) on the platform

Despite this, laser turrets seem to constantly rapid-flicker with "low power" while destroying asteroids. This is despite the total power available being ...

Hi team,

Currently doing a new playthrough of Space Age. Have run into a weird unplayable bug where "Construction manager" seems to consume all available CPU time, causing the game to become unplayable for any and all users. This also consumes 100% of the CPU core for the Factorio Linux server ...