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by starxplor
Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:06 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.18.47
Replies: 19
Views: 15309

Re: Version 0.18.47

What build are you running (OS and Steam/standalone?), Kind of goofy assuming I use Steam, which I do not. Hiladdar Kind of goofy of you to to assume posila assumed something when he explicitly asked if you used Steam and definitely didn't assume it. I think this sentence is what was being referred...
by starxplor
Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:25 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.54
Replies: 55
Views: 28215

Re: Version 0.17.54

Are you suggesting deaf players shouldn't be able to play the game either because they cannot hear it? They can simply install PulseAudio, even if they won't use it. Again, PulseAudio is installed by default on every modern distro, so for the majority of people that means they don't have to do anyt...
by starxplor
Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:55 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.54
Replies: 55
Views: 28215

Re: Version 0.17.54

Are you suggesting deaf players shouldn't be able to play the game either because they cannot hear it? They can simply install PulseAudio, even if they won't use it. Again, PulseAudio is installed by default on every modern distro, so for the majority of people that means they don't have to do anyt...
by starxplor
Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:50 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.54
Replies: 55
Views: 28215

Re: Version 0.17.54

Yeah, that would be not a bug. And yes, actually using Pulse is not mandatory, you still have the option of using ALSA or OSS, but you need the libpulse.so library. The above error is what happens when pulse is not installed. As pulse is listed as a dependency, this is an expected error. This is al...
by starxplor
Sat Jul 06, 2019 6:23 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.54
Replies: 55
Views: 28215

Re: Version 0.17.54

Yeah, that would be not a bug. And yes, actually using Pulse is not mandatory, you still have the option of using ALSA or OSS, but you need the libpulse.so library. The above error is what happens when pulse is not installed. As pulse is listed as a dependency, this is an expected error. This is al...
by starxplor
Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:46 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.48
Replies: 13
Views: 11295

Re: Version 0.17.48

Added a sanity check to LuaForce::chart() that errors on large sizes instead of trying to use 71,000 gigabytes of RAM. That is a hell of a lot of ram, servers dont even have that much! We have a pair of 64TByte machines, but I´ll get either shot by the other admins for trying to install or we´ll ru...
by starxplor
Fri May 31, 2019 3:35 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.44
Replies: 20
Views: 12801

Re: Version 0.17.44

Just wanted to say thanks for all the support on the Linux side!
by starxplor
Tue May 21, 2019 7:41 am
Forum: Medium/Big/Gigantic Sized Structures
Topic: Modular Extensible PnP Factory
Replies: 76
Views: 157362

Re: Modular Extensible PnP Factory

I still use it for mid-game. I build a basic early game red science factory, steal belts and iron from it to build this style bus for all red/green, and then add blue on the end of the belt. Once I need more than r/g/b science, I tend to switch to a bot based compact system of assembler rows.
by starxplor
Tue May 21, 2019 5:56 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: How to build a Dyson Sphere
Replies: 15
Views: 11246

Re: How to build a Dyson Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld_series

The books revolve (ha!) around finding an artificial ring around a star. Not an entire sphere, but possibly easier to build because of the lesser material requirements and ease of simulating day/night.
by starxplor
Tue May 14, 2019 3:29 am
Forum: Resolved Problems and Bugs
Topic: [Twinsen] [0.17.1] Copy BP into Quickbar
Replies: 5
Views: 3313

Re: [0.17.1] Copy BP into Quickbar

Fixed in Version: 0.17.38. When a temporary blueprint(e.g. blueprint from copy) is placed in the quickbar, the blueprint won't be destroyed when clearing the cursor and instead moved to the inventory. Thanks. This is amazing, THANK YOU!!!! No more "lets cut this and move... oh no, where did th...
by starxplor
Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:44 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What mods are you using - and why?
Replies: 69
Views: 24255

Re: What mods are you using - and why?

Long list incoming! AAI suite: Chain gunners are better than turret creeping, auto-pathing delivery vehicles and fun with circuits! Ammo Loader: Self explanatory. Auto Deconstruct: Self explanatory. Bio Industries: Surrounding my base with trees grown from saplings is fun. Bob's suite: I usually dis...
by starxplor
Wed Apr 03, 2019 4:05 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.23
Replies: 67
Views: 37422

Re: Version 0.17.23

I've always said, that if one knows how to program, one should be able to program in any language after a very short time (functional languages, and things like assembly, excluded). You won't be an expert in it, necessarily, but you should be able to do most routine work. Programming is programming...
by starxplor
Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:59 pm
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.17.23
Replies: 67
Views: 37422

Re: Version 0.17.23

Neither mod that I currently maintain were broken by this update, but I am getting regular crashes when saving causing corrupt save files. Hopefully the crash report uploads are helping.
by starxplor
Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:20 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch
Replies: 341
Views: 152808

Re: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch

If you are in hour 150 and you die of bitter attack, you have no one to blame but yourself. That was an example. As a player who won't accept losses in this game I don't know what the rest of you expect. What is an approximate maximum number of hours in which losing all your work would not be your ...
by starxplor
Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:17 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch
Replies: 341
Views: 152808

Re: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch

f you are in hour 150 and you die of bitter attack, you have no one to blame but yourself. That was an example. As a player who won't accept losses in this game I don't know what the rest of you expect. What is an approximate maximum number of hours in which losing all your work would not be your o...
by starxplor
Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:39 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch
Replies: 341
Views: 152808

Re: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch

I find it odd that so few people play at a level which includes the possibility of losing? I die from biters more than 75% of the time and love that I fail. If a game takes less than 2 hours to play, losing is fine. If I'm in hour 150 of a factory no way am I restarting for any reason other than th...
by starxplor
Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:48 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Question about mods
Replies: 5
Views: 2423

Re: Question about mods

I would suggest including bob's extra inserters, they make complex builds so much more fun to build because of the expanded access to inventories.

I play with this one even if I do not use the rest of bobs at all.
by starxplor
Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:15 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch
Replies: 341
Views: 152808

Re: Friday Facts #283 - Prepare to Launch

Please make the red and blue belts slow down the biters a bit more. I understand needing them to be able to overcome blue belts to prevent entirely breaking them, but I think the speed penalty rate should be the same as for players. (This way, they would still catch up to a player running against a ...
by starxplor
Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:53 am
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.14] AAI Programmable Vehicles
Replies: 876
Views: 524674

Re: [MOD 0.14] AAI Programmable Vehicles

Not sure where else to post this so I will put it here. I have created a blueprint for a controller structure to send a miner to an ore patch, a hauler to the miner until a specified amount of resource is in the hauler, returning it to a depot and sending back out to the miner. AAI.png CC at the bot...
by starxplor
Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:03 am
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.12.x] Compression Chests: virtually unlimited storage
Replies: 93
Views: 92014

Re: [MOD 0.12.x] Compression Chests: virtually unlimited storage

Since this mod has not been officially updated for two factorio versions now, I decided to update it.
I have modified the original 0.14 version to work with 0.16 and posted it as a new mod here:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CompressionChests2

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