I think this idea only makes sense if robots belong to a specific roboport and only perform tasks in that roboport's range. That does leave you with some other issues, such as transferring robots and items from one side of the network to the other. These problems would be solvable with circuit netwo...

Any chance combinators will get special 'each red' / 'each green' signals that work the same as 'each' but only return the values of the red / green network respectively? It would be amazing if you could multiply two sets of signals together (other operations would also be nice, but multiplication i...

From my experience the proper way to fix this kind of a problem is to just make the value of current fluidlevel an array of size 2 and then when you read the value use value[gametick mod 2] and when writing use value[gametick+1 mod 2]. Also known as the pingpong method. You use a bit more memory bu...

The cost of simulating pipes is going over and touching each pipe - cache misses as each pipe tries to flow to adjacent pipes all scattered randomly in memory. So, iterating them all twice would make it twice as expensive. How about going through the pipes randomly? Then any fluctuations should eve...

I think it would already help a lot if pressing alt showed not only the signals chosen as inputs and outputs (which is already an option) but also their current value. And it'd be nice if the operator was still readable. I'd imagine this would look something like the following: http://i.imgur.com/Sa...

As a a side effect this removes the need for the 'Anything' and 'Everything' inputs, which are basically 'Each'. <br style="text-align: justify;">There is a large difference between "Each", "Everything" and "Anything".<br style="text-align: justify;"...

Yeah I don't think the option should be available unless you select 'Each' and output only 1 signal, since that's the only situation where it applies. It would be pointless to show it in any other circumstance. The image is only a rough example to get the idea across. I agree that applying a summary...

In the 0.15 circuit network poll there's a suggestion for a 'Selector' combinator supporting operations like 'MAX' and 'MIN'. Personally I think the ability to calculate maximum and minimum values would a great feature, but I'd like to propose a slightly different way of achieving it. The way I see ...

That sounds like an awesome idea for a mod. Something like factorissimo, but for circuits (circuissimo?) sounds quite interesting. But it probably won't make it into the main game for the same reasons factorissimo won't.

Bitwise AND/OR/etc would be pretty epic though. What would really make the circuit system more powerful would be some way to combine the red and green circuits with arithmetic operations. That, and some ways to combine all the signals in a circuit into a single one (maximum / minimum / total etc.)....

Cube won't work. Look at your image, and walk down onto one of the lower 'sides'. Then walk right, off the edge of the side and onto the next side. You would expect to enter from the left side of the tile BUT YOU'RE NOT, you're now on the bottom of a tile. Rotation issues aside, this would make for...

An easier way to represent a sphere would be to divide the world up into big squares like this , and glue the correct edges together to make it into a cube. You do end up with a somewhat weird situation on the corners though, so it's not as simple as the torus. That said there's no curvature and eac...

Arguably spawner kills are the most realistic way to drive evolution. Can't have evolution without natural selection. Time and pollution just increase the number of mutations, natural selection gives them a direction. Of course it would be far more interesting if the aliens actually mutated over tim...

It would be nice if the Rail Chain Signal could be connected to the circuit network in the same way as the Rail Signal. You know, now that Rail signals are connectable to circuit network, in theory we don't need rail chain signal at all. We could just use plain rail signal and implement the lock lo...

i looked around, but couldnt find this one, sorry but thanks for moving it. in my eyes you wont be able to set the signal to blue, just like you can set the signal of a normal rail signal to yellow. The question was what the chain signal should sent to the circuit network if it was blue, not if it ...

Hmm, I don't think your XOR works. If positive numbers are all TRUE, then 2 XOR 3 should be 0. You probably would need 4 combinators to do XOR (3 if A and B use the same signal). I think a superior schema would be to use 0 and 1, all using the same channel, where signals that don't conform are divi...

Isn't it so, that the state is equal to the first non-chain-signal? Not necessarily, if there's a train in between a chain signal and a rail signal then the chain signal will be red, but the rail signal could be green (or yellow). And very difficult question: what should a chain-signal output, if i...

I don't think this would really add any new behaviour, most of these can be replicated using the arithmetic combinator if you consider all positive values TRUE and 0 FALSE (and negative values neither). Then you'd get: NOT A = (A == 0) A AND B = A * B A OR B = A + B A XOR B = NOT (A == B) A NAND B =...

I suppose that would work (apparently chain signals also turn yellow at the same time as the next signal), but it'd be more elegant to connect to the chain signal directly. Also, if you want to make a template for a rail crossing then it's often better to use a chain signal, since those are less lik...

It would be nice if the Rail Chain Signal could be connected to the circuit network in the same way as the Rail Signal. As an example of when this could be useful: when you try to design a nice crossing (to keep your trains from killing you) the circuit network functionality of the Rail Signal is cr...