I actually rarely use steel chests. Iron chest is 5x cheaper and has a capacity of 3/4 of steel chest.

As a train station buffer - 6 iron chests store 9600 ore while cargo wagon can only hold 2000. Why do you need larger buffer there?

mrvn wrote:...
So lets get to modding a settler mod for factorio.

Yes, please! My wife doesn't want to play factorio, because it's 'too futuristic' or some other nonsense. She only plays 'medieval' themed games... so Settlerio would be awesome!

My proposal of nerfing the bots: Make roboport larger (4x6 or maybe even 6x6) Make roboport bot storage lower (2 stacks instead of 6) Make bot cargo space research require space science Make bot recharge rate slower at start, but with infinite research option ---- As for buffing belts - like it was ...

Wait... are you talking about pulse loading when storage drops below a certain level? Since reactors and steam tanks react slowly, that'd require a timed delay. How do you control it? SR latch it? Reset the latch when steam falls below a certain level AND a spent fuel rod was ejected from the react...

I have trouble with math here. I came up with ratio of 1 pump : 20 boilers : 2 reactors (or rather one with 100% bonus) : 12 heat exchangers : 20 steam turbines. Math behind this: 1 pump extracts 1200 water/s which lines perfectly with 20 boilers since each uses 60 water. They produce 36 MW of power...

I am actually liking this new mechanic a lot. The euforia I got when I first figured out the correct way to inout fuel into reactor was awesome. I am using wire to tank and when volume is lower than 1k then inserter would insert one piece of fuel into reactor. It's pretty easy to setup actually.

You're running on a laptop are you ? That Quadcore and GTX are actually the M versions ? I guessed it from the G-card Vram size. I have essentially the same setup but on a desktop (with the full 4Gb Vram & 16Gb ram) and no frame drop - certainly not this high... Also there could be another expl...

when you're using steam and lasers, you need accumulators so that lasers don't kill your factory. you can use hot water tanks as accumulators boilers - steam engines - water tank - steam engines When the load is low, you "charge" the water tank, when the load rises, you have double capaci...

If anything, those FF are AGAINST slavery. And while you can differentiate between kinds of slavery, what EU is heading to is technically a slavery (different kind than oppresion of african-american minority in US, but slavery nevertheless).

Simple GUI that would allow setting personal roboport active only outside external logistics network? I don't really see usefulnes of personal roboport inside big logistics network, but deactivating manually is too much hassle

boro wrote:The new soundtrack is amazing guys, I just hope it gets extended a little.

Yeah, it's great. Kinda reminds me of Fallout 2, I don't know why

Imma so sad but good luck next week

Instead of going to all the trouble of actually measuring the distance over which electrical power is transmitted, you could simply give each Power Pole a drain. I suggest the same drain for all Power Poles, regardless of size, thus simulating that Big Power Poles are more efficient at long-distanc...

Yes, please yes. Trains are badly hurt by that.

On the other hand only thing that is really needed is that inserters wouldn't have to reach into the middle of a wagon, just straight up/down.

When you place object inside construction area and construction is on the way it should say so (optimally with ETA) in the side info when you hover over said object.

Also we need some indication that object is delivered through logistics system (requested by character logistic slot)

Iblob wrote:One other science related question:

How does our character know what he has left to research, but not actually have enough data to know how to build it without using a lab first?

He/She remembers what have been already researched on home planet.

So I started translating to Bulgarian yesterday and I'm at about 30%. I have translated a few of the smaller files and base.ini but I have a problem I can't translate inserter and it is a main part of the game. I can translate it literally but it sounds bad and also the word for insert is not used ...

Almost 10% of the update time is spent on "Smoke", a graphical effect that has no practical purpose, other than to look good. Yeah, that does sound like a bit of a waste of processing power when compared to the fact that the other 90% has a practical purpose. Yeah, that's why I play with ...

I agree, it's really OP attack with unequally expensive defense

How about liquid doesn't get destroyed if something with higher pressure is introduced into the pipe (it doesn't make sense anyway)