Just one note about:
"Megabases avoid chest because they hurt performance"
No.

Avoiding a chest automatically means avoiding an inserter.
Inserters are bad and that's why you try to avoid chests

That would be more confusing then the current display.
Nothing can consume faster than displayed.
It's just the buffer that causes spikes in your stats.

Maybe we should rename it to average max consumption

Everything has an internal buffer and consumes more when it tries to refill that.

Its definitely the most active category at the moment. :mrgreen: But it could also fit into the "Mechanical Throughput Magic" category - if we let go of the "circuit free" restriction. Many threads in there hit the "but that would no longer be completely circuit free" w...

Include subdirectories?

Also took a look at it. First: Those are a lot of mods - 135? I was amazed that that big number alone doesn't make it crash somewhere. I'm used to have ~10 mods active ;) It looks a lot like Factorissimo2 and how it was used on this map is responsible for the problems. The factorissimo2 Faq has a se...

You have played this game more then 600 hours without mayor problems and keep complaining that the Devs didn't do a good job. Don't you realise how ridiculous that is? Back to the problem: We are back too: Your cpu is the bottleneck and we have seen in your screenshot that most of the update time is...

The screenshot shows ~40 mods.
Maybe you could test if the lag spikes get better without them?

That should NOT be the problem. You win the game by launching the rocket now - payload doesn't matter

From https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/0.17.0#0.17.0 on Date: 26. 02. 2019

The game is won by launching a rocket, the Satellite is only for getting Space science packs.

Sounds like: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=65657 (intentional behaviour - not a bug)

I had a thought, instead of double headed train stops, be able to link 2, or more, stops together with circuits so that if one has inbound the other cannot? This ^^ - but I would say they should be linked and then "share" their train limit. A lot easier to use then OPs suggestion and it c...

What's so funny about that? That's exactly what is next on my next challenge list.
I have a 1k SPM base but only the mall has something that could qualify as main bus.

Everything else is train based.

@vangruver
Last post by Lisp wizard 2019
I guess he doesn't look in here anymore

But look at my post two posts above yours.
The attachment has OPs Blueprint in it.

Can't help you with that error but did you try to use one of the autosaves?

I took a look at your video.
As the post above guessed correctly:
Your track crosses the other one in its two way section. So your signals there need to be on both sides of the track.

The average windows user has no daily backup system for his game files. And why are there 3 autosaves? One should be enough ;) You can see that this problem pops up repeatedly on the forums. And when it hits it usually destroyers 100s of game hours. This is a very easy solution. So why not simply do...

I was about to make a similar suggestion when I saw that op has already proposed something similar: Failing that, perhaps you could come up with a backup strategy for saves that makes a backup copy of a save to a subfolder when it successfully loads. This way you'd have at most one extra copy of a p...

Theoretically yes but don't go into that hell.
Correct signaling should also solve that problem.
Can you post a Screenshot so that we can help?

How complicated is it to get rid of the instant breaking thing? Let me rephrase that: How many modding interface requests do we need to get that working? OR How difficult would that be for a dev to implement in to the base game 😊 How complicated is it to get rid of the instant breaking thing? For t...

I think the alternate solution is to much. The already modded solution is very good. How complicated is it to get rid of the instant breaking thing? Can we delay the destroying of wagons and Locomotives till the train Stopps? Suggestion: Check if destruction event was a head on collision. If yes Sto...