Probably mods.. ?
I never considered this as an option, as I am a purist in all game related things
By the way, programs running in a game should never be too long anyway.
Assembly is easy enough to go manual.

How are the midi file importers doing it?

Currently the requirement of electricity by research lab and later the assembler is the thing that forces people to rush to electricity. Personally I do not enjoy the game start much but thats probably because I did it many times. It can be fun though. But for that you got to introduce burner lab a...

While cleaning up this board I made this temporary sticky. really you should create a subforum "factory controllers" or "factory computer", not sticky, this creation is nice but hardly usable -> I consider it unfinished there are a couple of creations scattered throughout the fo...

more edits**** This may just be my favorite new copper layout ;) Uh thanks :) To actually fully fill the yellow output belt, red belts might be used as copper/iron input and also red belts might be used to compress the output belt. This is untested and a rough guess of mine but seems legit. I am no...

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Thank you for posting a readable explanation. The community can be really lazy with good guides for beginners at times

Maybe we should not get held up with expanding or enlengthening any part of the game, instead try to find parallels. Example: The parallels in power production are solar and steam. While solar comes in late, many people dont bother about it, others go fully solar energy. - thats parallelism What I f...

Note that this stuff has practically no error in tick precision![/b][/color] So when the midnight signal is set, the clock reset time not exactly into midnight but into moment few ticks before. The amount of tick-shift is exactly equal to signal delay due to combinators. Since you reset exactly int...

Actually cooling towers are not necessary if we could use cold sea water to condense the steam after turbines/fancy-new-blue-engines though that would require the possibility to dump hot water in lakes and sea
Ill be waiting for liquid dumping anyway -> swamps anyone?

The mechanical connection could be a a grid of belt drives like in old steam powered factories The drive shaft grid could work like the current electric poles, connecting entities with belts.

The map editor is kind of a god mode, we just miss the option playback time and be able to do the same shortcuts as in vanilla, also same button configurations would be nice (left click for build?)

I think the start of the game is the most fun part. When I play regular, Ill not go any further than blue science. The reason for me is, the game tends to stretch out too much after what I consider mid game (blue tech). What could be fun is an enlarged early game: - Throughout the early game, steel ...

Can we have a blueprint or save file?
I am just too lazy to replicate yours or figure it out by myself

How about being able to give a name to networks? hovering over the combinators would reveal, which group of combinators is responsible for this and that logic. The name of a wire obviously would not effect the actual ID. This is like commenting lines of code -> greatly helps people to understand it

I am not going to rant about the drop of closed water cycle even though I would love to, anyway.. An open water cycle is a totally fine thing to do, it should reward the player with less efficiency, more pollution (as a replacement for radioactive vapor), limit in poweroutput. A closed water cycle c...

In a word: Minimalism. A game with crafting can be as complex or as simple as can be imagined. Adding more materials can add more complexity/scale along with "realism," but unless it adds more game mechanics , more diversity in resources contributes very little value to player engagement....

DRY411S wrote:I'd imagine the same way they've always worked.

Input: >> or << (shift left or right): this_many_shifts => output_here

So we got x bit channels now or is this shift stuff encoded into integer numbers?

DRY411S wrote:

Klonan wrote:Sneak peek of 0.15

Woohoo.

Woohootoo

now I can remove two deciders and add one!
but the /= seems intimidating.

How are the bitwise operators going to work?

Finally someone to post their smart factory :o Looks super tidy, you could use my hard wired recipe calculator for the item sequence and maybe use a mod so you dont have to run around, change recipes manually ;) Pros: - Simple and compact. Only 8 combinators in total. - No jams when switching the re...

I am not sure if this is 1 - a problem of player education 2 - a problem of how you should launch your rocket (the old fashioned way vs new smart factorys) 3 - an overall problem with anxiety of everything that might be too complicated (combinators bad enough) or a problem for the devs (they know ho...