In the example, adding 4th connection to the central pole seems consistent with a "clean grid", while the diagonal wires smell like spaghetti A grid is wasteful on the number of connections, near 50% of the connections are unnecessary in a simple grid. More with diagonals. The question is...

For the second tire science packs start with one assembler making belts and inserters each and put them on 2 sides of a common belt. From that you can feed assemblers producing the science packs. That usually allows for a nice layout.

steinio wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:55 am

I'm in for starting construction of the next rocket immediately after the start and let the animation roll independently.

Would that give 1000 space science packs when you launch the rocket?

One of the big uses of this for me is ore mining and then belts won't be full, or don't remain full when patches dwindle. Using the throughput seems like a bad idea. If you have 2 belts you can always pass them through a splitter (to balance them) and then use 1:6 splitters on both sides of the trai...

I feel this is actually working correctly - having (even real) poles connected to each other even via a ghost is singalling "this is supposed to be a network". Therefore, upon removing ghost, its neighbours SHOULD try to recconect in a way to remain in one (before reconnection hypothetica...

It is. Setting the train limit = 0 has all trains in route arrive but will have no new trains target the station.

Make controls based on level of heat, not steam. I have this in my mind. Stop a counter is interesting idea, so you postpone one condition. You can measure heat directly but you can measure if a heat exchanger is working. And every heat pipe needs a 1°C gradient. So if you add 50 heat pipes and the...

One thing I would say is a bug, or more a bad feature, is the amount of connections added. Connections per pole are limited and, especially with long distance power poles, a precious resource. Poles should not gain a wire if they are already in the same electrical network. Ideally they would choose ...

My version of the 1to6 splitter for balancing buffer chests for train loading:
As belts get split you need less throughput. No need to have blue splitter/belts all the way.

7. Conditions for next power cell are: fuel_ready & 200s_passed & steam_low means, all 3 conditions are valid but heat stored in heatpipes is still there. 8. new cell is inserted e.g. system inserts new cell before the heat of previous cell is fully consumed. You didnt catch the trick. Plan...

7. Conditions for next power cell are: fuel_ready & 200s_passed & steam_low means, all 3 conditions are valid but heat stored in heatpipes is still there. 8. new cell is inserted e.g. system inserts new cell before the heat of previous cell is fully consumed. If you have enough heat exchang...

Looks like there would be space to include fuel cell recycling. It would. There is a nice (re)procesing added you could download. However, put it inside plant is a bit wierd as it can support many power plants, it looks to me better to have just one. Also your other idea to add more turbines for pe...

But would be a nice feature, or features as there is more than one idea here. Would be consistent with other places where a 0 signal or no signal disables the entity. For the feature improvement I would suggest "each" so the stack size is the signal strength for the item it picks up instea...

Ok, not adding but substracting is the final solution. If you substract 2147483648, you have the "full" half range for the intermediate values, because a and b are > 0 as requirement. Then a+b must be < 2147483648 resp. a+(b-2147483648) < 0, which is true for a, b in 0..1 073741823, so yo...

Most people cram their combinator construction into the minimal area so they are easier to use. But that generally makes them impossible to understand with wires going every which way and overlapping. It's near impossible to see if a wire just goes through a connection point or is actually connected...

nincompoop wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:31 am

Do you have screenshots of the difference? A difference could make this an actual bug and not just a accepted limitation of the 2D engine.

[Moderated by Koub : response to now moderated part of previous post] I invite everyone to try the calculator app he linked or use the exact numbers from the prototypes for locomotives and wagons for weight, friction and air resistance and the formulas from the wiki to compute the speed of a train....

How does that explain a difference in windows and linux? Shouldn't they have the same layer arangement and known Z sorting bugs?

Yes, I heard something about rich text feature in Factorio before, and... forgot it after five minutes because I didn't need it at that moment. I think this is not good that GUI does not even mention for unaware players there are advanced features for some fields. Probably I should create dedicated...

Tell my why that wouldn't work. Taking another crack at this; I did some experiments with linked containers and loaders. What about linked containers and inserters? I know inserters taking from e.g. an assembler work round-robin and take equally at least with stack size = 1. With higher stack size ...