aeros1 wrote:So it is so easy to miss that red dot on the map.

I can't see red or yellow (or most colours for that matter) so I know what you mean. Higher-contrast rail signals would be nice.

I'm sure this would be possible in a mod (would need to be enclosed of course) to some extent. Maybe the modular bit would be a bit much but then who knows.

I'd love to mod, unfortunately I don't have any time at home and while I could poke around at work my PC there won't run Factorio xP

There are a lot of other ways to solve this logistically. Split the items into two belts, have a buffer chest (bonus points, only pull items if required), stop the input feed once the belt loop is almost compressed (would need to swap the lanes of the belt to prevent one becoming backed up).

Oh, derp, I misread, only the locomotive currently can't use the roboport since it has no inventory of its own. I still think it could use some tweaking as it would be better if it had longer range, either by scaling up better or by equipping more roboports. Vehicles are less manoeuvrable so you wan...

Wow, you guys sure are dedicated. I was part of the Planetary Annihilation pre-release and they didn't really want to know. Had pretty much every user saying the interface is really laggy and generally sucky and AFAIK it never got fixed, unless it was just before release. For you guys as well as the...

I didn't say you "could" only see 30fps, I said that unless the image changes drastically you'll struggle to notice it. That completely defeats the point of my suggestion, which is to reduce the CPU load of the update. Factorio isn't particularly graphics intensive, so I'm not sure even in...

Ideally there would be something in place, however developer time is limited and consider once 0.15 is stable it is likely to become 1.0 at which point development ceases and the game is considered "finished". I don't know how simple it would be to implement but it's not going to be a five...

I'm not able to replicate either the crash (though I'm playing in sandbox, might be something to do with it) or the problem where the signal is too close. I've been running five trains around a loop with three bays for the last five minutes and it doesn't matter how close I put the signal to the bra...

Looks like I have sidestepped a problem by resolving to earn all achievements before modding =D

Hmm, perhaps a more flexible alternative will be available when the circuit network is improved with 0.15 hopefully to a point trains can be summoned as required. Then instead of adding and removing wagons we could just park this two wagon train and summon a three wagon train. I imagine this would b...

Lol I was just debating if I should go for 12, which 'felt' right, or 9 which seems more realistic. Check second page... Oh...

I'll go for 0.14.8 =D

Something I'd like to query, you guys say things like "we'd like to hear your ideas" (speaking about new modules for vehicles) but how? Posting it here seems a bit pointless since ideas would be drowned admist the general comments, so do we create topics in Suggestions? Should we create on...

Ahah I saw that earlier but didn't realise it was this you were trying to do xD

Posting the log in the topic itself (rather than as an attachment) makes it searchable and easier to find if similar problems are reported.

IRL trains that run in both directions have an engine on both ends of the train. I suspect a single headed train CAN reverse, however it would only ever be used to back it out of storage, connecting wagons, correcting position, etc, not for proper travel and certainly not in any automated process.

It would have to be within 23 tiles of the roboport to connect wirelessly anyway so it's not like it's covering massive distances, and you need to power both the roboport and the combinator so shouldn't need to add more than 1 medium power pole to bridge the gap.

Unfortunately shortly after taking that video the game crashed but I made another setup and tested it for a few minutes (well past long enough for it to break with a chain signal) on auto mode and didn't have any problems, though I think the signal was a bit further from the split rails because it w...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before: Automated trains which need only one locomotive to run forward or backwards. Diagonal stations or a special station to (dis-)connect a locomotive automatically to some wagons. In sandbox mode, it would be interesting to spawn a driver avatar temporarily t...

Add train wait condition:

Inventory full
OR wait 10 seconds (tweak for loading time)

Had this problem with a merged copper and iron deposit. You'll end up with a train filled up to 49 less than capacity, not the end of the world.

Drop a roboport down next to one and connect it to the combinator, set the roboport circuit connection type to send logistic network to the circuit network. Job done.