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- Fri Feb 16, 2018 6:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #230 - Engine modernisation
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47279
Re: Friday Facts #230 - Engine modernisation
As a programmer, I could never get on with Allegro. It's history is older than SDL (I believe, I can't be bothered to Google) but it was always something that people ended up ripping out later on. SDL, however, has always served me well and since 1.3/2.0 where OpenGL was an integrated component it's...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:43 am
- Forum: Duplicates
- Topic: 0.16 crash
- Replies: 1
- Views: 628
0.16 crash
0.16 crashes-on-load for me, at loading sprites, 89%.
The logs and dump are attached.
0.15 ran fine for me unless I had literally thousands-of-roboport-port-range long maps exposed.
The logs and dump are attached.
0.15 ran fine for me unless I had literally thousands-of-roboport-port-range long maps exposed.
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:41 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #221 - 0.16 is out
- Replies: 155
- Views: 60166
Re: Friday Facts #221 - 0.16 is out
Aw. 0.16 just crashes on the loading screen for me. The only time I ever had a problem on 0.15 was with huge stupendous bases (e.g. 1000 roboport-ranges tall, etc.), but that was always in-game or when loading in the save after a long session. This is just... Loading sprites, 89%, crash. Off to file...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:21 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: I wish I had the money.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11756
Re: I wish I had the money.
I always judge on "price per hour". As far as I'm concerned, the value of Factorio is much greater than anything like GTA (which I played, completed, deleted), or most other things on Steam. Some games are worth lots for only a few hours of content (e.g. Half-Life 2 when it first come out)...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 6:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #215 - Multithreading issues
- Replies: 101
- Views: 45592
Re: Friday Facts #215 - Multithreading issues
Are we talking: list of train tracks list of trains list of stations list of belts list of electric poles list of electric networks Each holding their own contiguous memory list of items, but separate (so they don't reference each other)? Such that the belt-thread can pull in the list of all belts i...
- Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:37 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: One Billion Copper Wires produced.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12986
Re: One Billion Copper Wires produced.
Where are you going to put all the byproducts of making/storing/using billions of copper wires?
I think you'd run out of RAM before your machine uptime mattered.
I think you'd run out of RAM before your machine uptime mattered.
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #210 - Circuit connector module implementation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23288
Re: Friday Facts #210 - Circuit connector module implementation
Think we really need an expensive "wireless radio circuit" instead of so many wires all over the place. Stick it on a red/green wire and it can transmit it to any wireless radio circuit in range, rather than having to convert to logistics networks or cable everything in sight. Make a "...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 8:33 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Belts, how far is too far?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15131
Re: Belts, how far is too far?
Always blueprint train tracks with the cheapest wooden pylons in - they are so cheap its ridiculous and your blueprints will take out a load of trees along the way to pay for them anyway. That way, your power network becomes as route-redundant as your train network too, and you have power to all rem...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 8:15 am
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Splitting up robotic networks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5786
Re: Splitting up robotic networks
Yeah, you don't have much choice. I have a line that's 1000-roboport-areas long, and it takes about 15 minutes for a robot to traverse it. It still works, robots are still generally around in the intermediate ports to do things like repairs and keep the line safe, but delivery of materials from one ...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: float point and why it is used in factorio
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7757
Re: float point and why it is used in factorio
And so long as the float library used is consistent across platforms, it won't be the cause of any kinds of miscalculations (to be honest, doesn't the server do it all for everyone anyway?). If handling floats was as unreliable as you suggest, almost nothing from browser div tags to any online game ...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:41 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Extreme Ribbon World
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8267
Re: Extreme Ribbon World
You're gonna need a lot of all the three tunnel belts. Get used to nesting them on the same row! Er.. actually, my core strategem going in is to completely avoid belts, relying instead --when I'm forced to-- on short-range bot work to do stuff like supplying the rocket. Is it going to be viable to ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:20 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Extreme Ribbon World
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8267
Re: Extreme Ribbon World
You're gonna need a lot of all the three tunnel belts. Get used to nesting them on the same row!
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #206 - Workflow optimisation
- Replies: 84
- Views: 40925
Re: Friday Facts #206 - Workflow optimisation
Where does the time spent on that compile optimisation appear on the classic XKCD chart?: https://xkcd.com/1205/ And the more junk like boost that you throw in (and I imagine much of that is spent compiling code that's later discarded because it's not actually used) the worse it will be. I'm more su...
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Get your priorities straight
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2088
Get your priorities straight
Situation: House down the road had electrical cables that caught fire and took out the street.
The attached is what ensued on my Facebook.
P.S. (Yes, I finished the game and safely saved, so phew....)
The attached is what ensued on my Facebook.
P.S. (Yes, I finished the game and safely saved, so phew....)
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:48 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Is "Lazy Bastard" appropriate?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17246
Re: Is "Lazy Bastard" appropriate?
Rather than pretend that children don't see, hear, repeat and use such words, try this. Educate your child what the word means, punish if they use it out of context or unnecessarily for effect (i.e. every other word to look big in front of their friends) To be honest, as far as my parenting goes, th...
- Sun Aug 27, 2017 10:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #205 - Teaching the things that everybody knows
- Replies: 110
- Views: 50086
Re: Friday Facts #205 - Teaching the things that everybody knows
I have a couple of thousand hours. Trains / rails - I use them, but usually only when I've got a complete mini-base up and running (i.e. can already make anything I like, get enough science etc. to launch rocket, etc.). They are only useful if you don't encapsulate enough resources, or you're delibe...
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #205 - Teaching the things that everybody knows
- Replies: 110
- Views: 50086
Re: Friday Facts #205 - Teaching the things that everybody knows
Talking about "non-obvious" things, when do we get an explanation of removing circuit wires and/or copy-pasting circuit settings between items.
It REALLY needs a button, rather than a magic-modifier-key-combo.
It REALLY needs a button, rather than a magic-modifier-key-combo.
- Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #203 - Logistic buffer chest
- Replies: 152
- Views: 72199
Re: Factorio Friday Friday Facts #203 - Logistic buffer chest
Chests are fixed at last! This is great, I hate the ping-pong bots trying to resolve the requester/provider chest loops that also needed circuit control to stop them getting out of hand, and that was exactly the solution I wanted (stated elsewhere, but I'm almost certainly not the only person to sug...
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:01 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Any way to filter liquids..? (+poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5093
Re: Any way to filter liquids..? (+poll)
Just like in real life - you shouldn't mix different fluids in a pipe if you care about separating them.
What do you think happens, you can just go from sulphuric acid to petroleum without the two getting contaminated?
No, there's other stuff much more worth worrying about.
What do you think happens, you can just go from sulphuric acid to petroleum without the two getting contaminated?
No, there's other stuff much more worth worrying about.
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:02 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: auto wood harvesting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4216
Re: auto wood harvesting
Lay down a requester chest and see what happens. I bet all that wood is just floating around in storage/drones somewhere and you haven't seen it.