Ahh! I just saw this reply! I'll have to verify my code then!

I made a new ammo type called "rocks" and had larger "rocks" have a longer range and it didn't do anything. It could be a bug for non-standard ammo types. But could also just be an error in my code. I'll to verify and report back!

Perhaps I did something wrong, but I month or so ago I encountered this while modding and forgot to make a report about it. I was experimenting with ammo modifiers that give range, or fire rate/cooldown, etc.

I put those ammos in turrets and it seems like they don't have any affect at all. I asked ...

OOOOOH, thanks! (if someone stumbles on this post from google, hold control and alt while clicking settings to get the extra/hidden settings)

For a pittance of 3.2 GB of cache dumped into a file (not using the compressed atlas option, only stock 'mods')

9.21 seconds! More than double the speed.

Well, that was fun! Confirming what you said it would be:

~22.48 seconds zipped (5 - normal zip compression)
~22.48 seconds zipped (0 - STORE)
~22.10 seconds normal open directory

And of course none of those differences really matter compared to sampling error.

Also for the fun of it, I max zip ...

Ah! Sorry for the misconception on my part!

And it looks like PNG decompression is multi-threaded. Perhaps that's just the nature of the beast barring some sort of faster PNG decompression library.

Hmmm.... perhaps I'm mining a dry well here.

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> You can try it yourself I believe. If you ...

To be clear, I'm not talking about compressed archives. You can run zips with no compression where they function as simple archives.

Fun side note: There was a time when even compression was used because disks were so much slower, compressing it, sending it, and later uncompressing in CPU was ...

As a fellow dev, I have a question, and I don't mean this is any kind of judgy way. Is there a reason the core files, game/space-age files aren't zipped with Factorio, the way mods are? In terms of loading time, loading 16,000 files with the operating system checking permissions on every one, is ...

+1. Just talking with some people about this exact topic.

If there was a mod that did this, I'd immediately install it.

> For starter it violates the term of services of the mod portal which says

Hmmm. But there are Starcraft mods out there too.

BUT, if I was gonna upload a copyrighted music album, it definitely wouldn't be a public mod database. It'd be private friends only thing. Fair use covers small clips ...

I think i'm going to experiment with modding demolishers to either he surrounded by pods of smaller demolishers, or split into smaller ones when you shoot them. Maybe even, shooting one in the mid segment splits it into two like a crazed centipede. So if you're going to kill them, you should have ...

I've seen these fields used for nuke rockets but it appears, they have no effect when fired from turrets.

Is this a bug, my mistake, or by-design?

docs: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/AmmoType.html#range_modifier

I was trying to have an ammo type that would have extended range for the ...

I haven't used them for asteroids, so this is separate from that. And I know, this is my subjective experience BUT:

I had big demolishers on Vulcanus. I transport railguns down to try them out. I put down like 8 (3 rare, 2 uncommon). Railgun research is practically free at this point in the game so ...

Sorry I really should have been more clear I meant buildings (belts, assemblers, etc), not items!

It's really cool to see who placed an item and to see production charts.

It would be really nice if the:

last user: katastic

field also included a timestamp of how many hours ago it was created.

I love finding old stuff and going "how long ago did we do that???" and likewise, seeing something ...

Minor problem but: Setting cargo to "less than" zero shouldn't be possible since it's impossible to have negative inventory (...right...?)

This will silently fail, and if you just add a cargo criteria and set it to zero, this is the default case:

You've got Quality 1, Quality 2, Quality 3. And they have more if there's more red dots.

But then you've got Quality 1 (uncommon), one red dot, two green dots.

Quality 3 (uncommon). three red dots, two green dots.

Quality 1 (rare), 1 red dot, four purple dots.

It's definitely not easy / nature ...

This problem isn't caused by quality, but it explodes the second quality enters the game: the module selection becomes a nightmare.

Every time you remotely build something (or even to an extent in person) you have to quit back out, consult logistics to see what actual modules of what rarity, are ...