I think all the guys asking for "imbalance" or "the slowness" of py-mods, including a topic starter, mistake, because there is no problem with mod, there a some linguistic delusion in their minds. They do not know that word HARDCORE is just a diminutive form of word PYANODON (the weakest form among ...

Guys, i think, there is some additional consideration in case of low yield high tiers metal smelting - the more processing steps we have then more growth by production modules that can be achieved (exponentially vs linearly). May be, it's the sense of this

I haven't such a construction just now, but i think, it can be interesting to design it.

Could you please?

So the reason why I'm asking is that there was a specific claim made that this would be easy to do, and would ruin the game. It's unclear to me that it is easy, and my suspicion is that you ...

i have a similar idea, but for 0.12 without counting..

see: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19609&start=20#p187301

Can you actually provide a save file, that illustrates everything you describe, except for the part where the factory has its recipe changed (which, of course, does not exist yet)? That is, a faultless system that given the state of a circuit network(s), has the following properties:
Can correctly ...

it is not clear to me how to solve this problem, at all, in any way more efficient than just having a bunch of idle factories

Why is it matter of no having of idle factories? Assembers are cheap (too cheap, for my opinion), and their operating cost is cheap. Single thing that balanced this is ...

If you introduce a possibility to change recipe of assemblers by easy automatic means you will ruin the game. Think, why.
I thought why [that would ruin the game]. How, exactly, would this ruin the game?

You can build an assembler and two chest besides it: one for input to assembler and one for ...

If you introduce a possibility to change recipe of assemblers by easy automatic means you will ruin the game. Think, why.

I have created a circulating factory on similar principle, but with many diffs in details.

Overview:

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It have four lanes for better productivity, lanes balanced in some parts of cirlce. There are some mechanism for measuring and controlling concentration of materials on belts. I ...