To all of those complaining about artillery and the spidertron being kicked to later in the tech tree, consider instead that the tech tree bit just before those has been expanded. Silly analogy: you have a lighthouse, now you want a taller lighthouse, so you need to take the top part off before buil...

I somehow like that some decoratves remain after paving, but I would rather have stone bricks remove some, concrete remove some more, and refined concrete remove all.

That is so cool, yet touches so many 'thats wrong' buttons inside my head. Lol.

bobingabout wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:19 am

Also it would seem the diagonal pole rotations are backwards.

This. Literally unplayable

From wiki:
Nuclear fuel: 1.21 GJ

Burner inserter: 188kW, so 6436 seconds (1:47 h)
Burner drill: 300kW, so 4033 seconds (1:07 h)

Rocket-furnaces, ROCKET-FURNACES! :!: Yes! And now with .16 and nuclear fuel, burner inserters should be able to fully saturate a blue belt! [Edit:] autocorrect typo How long does a burner inserter and burner mining drill run with a single nuclear fuel? Don't have access to the game rn, but they ha...

bobingabout wrote:

darkfrei wrote:Rocket-furnaces, ROCKET-FURNACES!

Yes!

And now with .16 and nuclear fuel, burner inserters should be able to fully saturate a blue belt!

[Edit:] autocorrect typo

Now we definitely need fuel bonuses for burner inserters. Imagine the power of a nuclear-inserter!

TL;DR Have burner inserters work faster with more advanced fuel types What? Currently burner inserters can only pull stuff from non-yellow belts if they are backed up. It would be interesting if, provided they be fueled with solid fuel or rocket fuel, they would speed up enough to be able to pick u...

You could use splitters to 'force feed' a selected line.

With three lines in parallel (and not adjacent), have a splitter in the top and bottom lines, with the second exit turning towards the middle lane and feeding into it.

I've set up a refueling stop right before the exit of my main base, where trains stop for ~5 seconds and get loaded up with solid fuel. I've repurposed this stop to add wall, gate, laser turret (still unfinished), repair pack and construction robot loading arms; this way all of my trains get loaded ...

Yeah, I've seen that. But there's no way I'm setting that up on every outpost.

I guess I'll dump the repair kits onto a chest then. I have the train unload (robots and repair kits) directly into the roboport, and this way it fills it up, despite the filter on the smart inserter.

Wow, amazing. I just started doing this, only I'm also trying to supply construction robots, since they killed every now and then. My problem is that I can't seem to limit the amount of bots that get stored inside the roboport (or repair packs either, but those are cheap to produce), even with smart...

I guess it highly depends on your play stile, but I usually burn through all the red/green only techs long before I have an established blue pack production, large enough to saturate the 8-10 labs I usually plop down...