There have been a lot of complaints about the price of AP ammo. Sitting passively while 18 spawners dump biters at you sounds like a recipe for failure. If it costs more resourses to defend your mining operation than it produces, you should give it up. I recommend distractor capsules for early spawn...

I found a workaround.

Right-click Factorio and select "Run as administrator". This prevents the UAC window from popping up in the middle of the update and causing the crash.

You might try these events:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373247.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383828.aspx (for https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=7&t=5076)

Here it is.

Windows 7 x64, Factorio version 0.10.5. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start -> All Programs -> Factorio -> Factorio 2. Start -> Switch User 3. Click your username to log back in When I'm on the main menu, I get this error message: Sprite "C:/Program Files\Factorio\data\core|graphics\background-image-l...

Windows 7 x64, Factorio version 0.10.3.

When I ran the automatic updater to upgrade to 0.10.5, the program popped up a crash warning instead of restarting quietly. The game did restart and the update was successful.

Maybe you could make roboports like gun turrets, which only accept 10 items by inserter.

Of course then it could only accept 10 robots too..

Breetai wrote:Top > 4 Iron Plates in the crate.
Bottom < 3 Iron Plates in the crate.

This can be simplified to:

Top: replace with fast inserter
Bottom < 2 Iron Plates in the crate.


Steel furnaces often take less space than electric ones.

Forums are notorious for getting hacked. You don't want them to take over your main server when that happens.

DerivePi wrote:How do 3 Chemical Plants produce enough Plastic for 50 ADV CKT in assembler 3s? Also seems a little light with the AP AMMO and heavy with the FE PL, Steel and Gear production.

Productivity Module 3's in every assembler/furnace they are allowed, and Speed Module 3's where they aren't.

Changing the stock level is not enough. If inserters can't keep up with 2x the ingredients, they have no chance at 3x or more. To make inserters keep up: 1. Use blue inserters. 2. Research inserter stack size bonus. Note: this does not work with transport belts. 3. Replace your transport belts with ...

Bump.

Still waiting for an assembly machine that can build oil refineries.

It takes about 15 destroyer capsules per minute to maintain a maxed destroyer bot army. So I decided to build a factory to produce them that fast. Only one assembler is required, if you load it with speed module 3's. http://davemcw.com/factorio/images/destroyer-capsule-zoom.jpg With productivity mod...

HeilTec wrote:The clients could (randomly) take turns on the arbiter role.
This could be called a peer-to-peer distributed-arbiter system.

Since I've never designed such a thing my ideas may be far fetched.

You really want the person with the best computer to be always be the arbiter.

Only downside, it caps the ability for that line to grow. Assuming there's nothing behind the assembler, underground belts will allow those resources to continue downwards. ;) It's hilarious that you guys think there will be any resources left on the belt after it passes a solar panel assembler. :D

In regards to transport belts; when is it worth while to upgrade to faster belts? Obviously they move material faster, but if you have a large backlog in your resource delivery chain, why does belt speed matter? Speed itself doesn't matter. But faster belts can feed more buildings before getting cl...

Putting cables on a belt doesn't slow this way down? I long ago gave up trying that because it is just so slow without inserter bonus. Nice and compact though, if needed in tight spaces. Advanced circuits need circuits, plastic, and cables in a 1:1:2 ratio. This fits perfectly with a circuit/plasti...

If you use a vertical splitter, there is no left or right.

ssilk wrote:@DaveMcW:
I never tried that, but I think this balances the left input-lane over the right, cause the outgoing splitter will prefer the left belt-entry.

Putting a straight belt before the last splitter fixes this.

This will balance a 2-lane coal belt.