So long as you're putting stuff into storage, it should be fine. There's desyncs when a function changes a variable outside of it's scope, not when stuff is accessed in storage.

I've seen someone talk about this recently on the 2+2=fish reddit thread

Lua doesn't have "2d tables", there are only tables of tables, that is lua Values that hold pointers to garbage collectable objects. There's some magic so that tables with number indices behave like arrays, but generally they're all hashmaps.

You found how to make your mod faster, so you can ...

Indexing has a cost in lua. If you have a lot of things like settings.global.thing in your code, consider extracting that into a local variable and then using that.

I just have a bunch of cyclers and requests like "nauvis -> gleba" that are also requested in the landing pad.
Need something, just throw it into the request. Eventualy it will arrive.

One exception is Gleba express, which delivers biter eggs, bioflux and gleba science as fast as possible directly ...

yeah, making something like this "properly" requires a bit more shader magic than just an image sliding in and out.

Now I'm happy to have the image, but a better implementation would require

more polished animations for arriving/departing/going into/out of orbit
layered animated planets, at the ...

The mods adding this are popular b
I'm surprised this thread isn't getting more love. It seems like an easy add for a lot of benefit!


The different mods adding it seem "popular" to me, but the benefits are only cosmetic !


There is a benefit beyond cosmetics - seeing the planet in the ...

+1 to the rotate setting

It'd be nice to have more of my ship on screen, but rebuilding it all is a no-go at this point.

Or I suppose it's just the spoilage mechanic making me fidgety when I have to rely on something that melts on the way and a failure results in losing my precious fish farm (and the biter nests making the eggs probably getting obliterated by artillery).


If it makes you feel any better, biter ...

I meant more as in "why can't we farm nutrients on Nauvis". I don't think there's a way to be nutrient-positive without shipping in bioflux.


There's another one where you look at it and go: Hmm. someone thought this would be well received. The rocket capacity is 1000 bioflux.

And that's a ...

What do biters eat? Are there no algae the fish feed on?


The fish feeds on a rare micro-organism only found in Nauvis's water, and those do not support the low gravity environment from space, the water of Gleba aren't suitable for fish breeding for this reason i imagine.

Biters notoriously ...

Personally, what annoys me is that there's absolutely nothing to farm on Nauvis but biters, fish and trees.

What do biters eat? Are there no algae the fish feed on?

Nope, you want nutrients, send them from gleba. I get how it's a gameplay thing but it's just annoying. That and the fact that no ...

So it's kinda weird that we have the whole "hot/cold" fuoroketone on the planet where you need to heat things and no way to heat things with it?

I'm thinking it should be a bit of cryogenics/metallurgic science, fluoroketone heat exchangers to heat/cool fluoroketone and insulated pipes/tanks to go ...

The number input window supports 0x... hexadecimal notation, so it stands to reason it'd be nice to have 0o... and 0b... for octal and binary respectively. I *think* I recall that the string parsing is using an in-house solution from some friday facts, so shouldn't be difficult to add?

As far as I know it is intended that you can not build tiles or anything behind engines. But as you’ve found setting the exclusion range to a huge value has massive performance issues and no other solution has been found so far.


Couldn't you just keep a map of {x: y} data to say "at this X ...

Don't quite have the time right now to figure out factorio modding, so I'll write it here - I think PDD deserves a fulgoran upgrade to an auto-firing tesla to automatically stun and damage things around you.

PDD itself is pretty busted damage-wise, a few electricity damage upgrades allow you to hug ...

It's a little annoying to upgrade all of my freighters when copy-pasting the whole thing overwrites their schedules every time. I personally never had a use case for copying schedules that way either.

As far as I know it is intended that you can not build tiles or anything behind engines. But as you’ve found setting the exclusion range to a huge value has massive performance issues and no other solution has been found so far.


Couldn't you just keep a map of {x: y} data to say "at this X ...

+1

Kind of a strange pairing. Sure you want coal for making explosives in space, but that's just one use.

It definitely feels to me that progression of difficulty is Nauvis -> Vulcanus | Fulgora -> Gleba -> Aquilo.

Gleba introduces a whole new mechanic that's *way* more dependant on having robust interplanetary logistics and actually having every part of it unlocked. You *need* agritowers, biochambers ...

Yeah, that's fair. I thought at first maybe it was something to do with how Factorio handles sound, but with more research seems like a windows quirk.

Heck, I got the error to repeat in firefox by playing youtube in one tab and pausing a video in another tab.