The difference is that one single tank of water would make up the difference for 138.888 heat exchangers worth of lost water buffer, whereas expanding my steam storage to accommodate the extra steam required to cover for a cold start would be at least 2 tanks per row.


The imaginary design you ...

I do not agree with this counting, the reactor lengh is counted twice when (imo) it shouldn't at all, and the power poles for turbine do not need to extend the pipeline as they can be put on the side. And why multiply the whole by 2 at the end ? If you look at Tertius scalable nuke plant that was ...

What will happen if you cut off the water supply of a real world heat exchanger and boiler?

They will melt. You don't do this.
There is no on/off switch.
You carefully control water supply and steam exhaust to keep the machine in good working condition.

Absolutely true! Now, what will happen in ...

But the pump is there only because of the arbitary need to have a power plant that keeps temperature hot imo. It is to show that what you request is possible to do, but you don't need the pump to make a working power plant !

For eff's sake. The requirement isn't arbitrary; I just explained why ...

Thus, shutting off the heat exchangers allows the system to start up quickly on demand.

The conclusion is true imo, i agree, shutting off the heat exchanger allows the system to start up quickly and on demand. But also it's not "sufficient" to justify implementing the suggestion in a way ...

1)The shutdown is actually slower than cutting the steam off with a pump, since now instead of just having to fill up the heat exchanger outputs and the pipes they feed directly into,
2)I also have to fill up all turbines (each of which also stores 200 steam) and the pipes between them
3)Except ...

I do not see what problem do you have with stopping steam. Let all heat exchangers output to single pipe. Add pumps(one per 11 heat exchangers) to it. After pumps put another single pipe connected to all tanks and turbines. It will work even faster than stopping water flow because steam takes 10 ...

The specific use-case that prompted me to notice this problem is in my nuclear plant. I have a large steam buffer in my design, and when the reactors don't have any fuel in them, I like to shut off my heat exchangers and run off the tanked steam exclusively. This way, the heat exchangers remain at ...

TL;DR
Be nice if we could set the upgrade planner to only affect objects that have actually been placed and ignore ghosts, or the opposite; this would be especially handy when working with quality modules.


What?
Give the upgrade planner config page a little dropdown (like the one the ...

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Heat exchangers should be included too.

TL;DR
Since 2.0.7, 1 water turns into 10 steam, meaning boilers and heat exchangers use 1/10th as much water now, but the amount of water they store has not been updated to match; it should be.


What?
Reduce the amount of water boilers and heat exchangers can contain from 200 to 20.

Why ...

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In my opinion, this request can be closed, because it is obsolete.

About the inventory: It's now possible to request bots into the roboport. You can read the bot statistics. So to balance bot amounts in the network, you request a small amount of bots into one roboport and read bot statistics. You ...

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In this other thread , it's explained that wildcards are only filled when leaving a station. I also show a proof of concept, that allows you to send trains to wildcard stations and keep the icons in your station names. (So we don't need to add any new features to solve this problem.)

That system ...

An option that might be simpler to implement would be to allow the fuel interrupt to be configured in number of stacks rather than number of individual items.

Note that if you add 'is damaged' as an interrupt condition, you also need to add it as a train stop departure condition, both so that you can depart immediately if you're getting damaged, and so that you can wait at the depot until fully repaired before heading out again.

This has been done and can be moved to the 'Implemented' board

I suggested this myself some time ago: viewtopic.php?p=642409#p642409