I play on an 8 year old PC, so can relate to other people playing on older hardware, but regardless, sooner or later even the fastest PC reaches a point where it can't simulate everything 60 frames per second. If the client reaches that point before the server, then the client will stop drawing ever...

Typically I find laser turrets are "good enough" right through end-game. Things that might help. 1. Make sure you aren't running low on power (laser turrets use a lot of power when shooting). 2. Research any available laser turret damage and shooting speed upgrades. (It's relatively easy to get + 80...

Please post the screenshots and other information requested in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51319. (Preferably screenshots during both normal play and during the fps drops).

One stack inserter might be able to keep a refinery satisfied. (The wiki says their max speed belt to chest/assembler is 12 items/sec. Their actual transfer rate depends on how full the belt they are picking up from is, so don't expect one stack inserter to keep up if the belt has gaps in it). But e...

It's possible that you might have run into viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62814.

that true ... but game knows all currently existing pole locations so it can use that: when new pole is added game try to connect it horizontaly or vertically to other poles (which handles almost all cases) and only no pole was found then search for any other connection That sounds like a reasonabl...

Any chance you are behind a router doing NAT? Because if you are then it sounds like you should setup some static port forwarding rules.

@Nexela. Adding PickerExtended to the save in the op of viewtopic.php?f=49&t=62790 seems to cause some sort of memory leak during loading/migrations.

I'm trying to install the dependencies for "Sea Block Pack", one of the dependencies is "Sea Block Config" but it has no version so Factorio will not install it. If you download the mod pack on page 1 of this thread, it will contain all the required deps / mods for seablocks. In general I also reco...

I can confirm the problem. Migrations seem to be a problem with the mods and save posted in the original post. Factorio seems to consume a growing amount of memory, when I killed it it was using over 5Gb. Given the symptoms you describe, I'm guessing windows killed it when it ran out of ram. However...

Hmm that tells me how to throttle it... Massively over-beacon, then measure outgoing 238 and if it runs low turn off the beacons power. Problem solved. Thanks for arguing, it made me think of the solution The simplest way to throttle anything is backpressure. Allow it to fill the output belts/pipes...

Since it is normally easy to extend a wire to a power pole, I'm not sure it's worth cluttering the interface. (I agree it could be useful, but I not sure it's worth cluttering the interface for combinators which might be attached to 2 sets of wires, when you can already get a display by just extendi...

Read https://wiki.factorio.com/Railway/Train_path_finding . 3 stopped trains can have a larger pathfinding penalty that waiting for a circuit controlled signal.

Thank you, but I don't think that's what I need. I don't have multiple interfaces on the machine, I'm behind a NAT that can use multiple public IPs, the one that I'm using to connect to the internet (that's the one the pingpong servers are detecting) it's not the one I can port forward on. It's som...

40+ hours to launch your first rocket (aka 'beat' the game) seems reasonable to me, assuming you don't get sidetracked. But if you finish in 40 hours, then you probably haven't explored all the tech tree yet, nor have you played with different world generation settings. You certainly won't have buil...

There is a major graphics rewriter coming for 0.17, so maybe that will fix it.

PacifyerGrey wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:27 pm

However I am totally up for circuit controls for a station pathfinding value

Can't you already use circuit controlled signals to achieve a similar effect?

I recommend this tutorial https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... ts_23_and/

For steam and .exe installs, I think there is just one modded achievement list. (Each .zip install has its own achievement lists in achievements.dat and achievements-modded.dat, but that is a side effect of the .zip install being completely portable). Also I don't believe that there there is really ...

If you're wanting to try megabase - did you minimize the amount of water, and turn off cliffs when you generated the map? You'll find water and cliffs get realy annoying when trying to make such a large base. Personally I like lots of water, even on my megabase maps. In general I think that advisin...