I also have a need to both set requests and read a chest's contents for my train and car loading rigs.

I don't particularly need to be able to specify red/green personally (although adding that option to all circuit network-capable entities would be VERY useful for keeping signals separate and ...

I also get an error when flipping blueprints, but it seems to ONLY happen when I'm trying to flip the active blueprint in a book. Flipping blueprints that are NOT in a book seems to still work, although I haven't tested it exhaustively to see if it's any particular object that causes it.

I like the idea, but a) that sounds like a lot of new assets so unlikely to make it into the game unless someone does it as a mod, and b) I think this would be better with a new research for 'Underground Pipe System' so that new players aren't overwhelmed, and so that you need to work for it.

That doesn't work - if there are already some on the train, it will load too many.

This seems to have broken with today's Factorio update (see below).

Other installed mods I have:

Automatic Belt Planner
BeltIndicator
Fast Replace Underground Belt
Infinizoom
Killkrog's Blueprint Manager
Pipe Manager
Progressive Running

Because I may want to load different things into it depending on what I'm doing.

The train is my 'personal transport' train that I tend to load up with stuff that I need to e.g. build a certain type of outpost, or build some more assembly capacity, or whatever my current project may be. It'd be a ...

I'm trying to load a specific number of different items into a train (e.g. 11 solar panels and 7 accumulators) by sending a bunch of signals from the circuit network.

I have some logic that figures out the difference between what is already on the train and what I want on the train and outputs ...

I'm trying to put together some calculations to figure out how many roboports I need for various different sizes of train station etc.

Obviously a major factor is how long bots spend charging; I can't seem to find any figures on how long it takes a Roboport to fully charge a bot - does anyone have ...

I dabbled in various things (QBasic, VB6 & VBA, C) and never really liked any of them until I started learning C#. C# was the first one that I actually enjoyed writing in.

At least until I realised that most of the time these days I'm spending my time finding ways around .NET quirks and bugs rather ...

Absolutely. Instead, we should require fiberglass weaves, copper plating steps, photoresist, etching, solder, assembly, inspection and test steps... oh yeah and silicon doping, carbon resistors...

Oh wait, that's Bob's mods :)

Heh, true, but for the purposes of simplification (i.e. not scaring ...

Thanks guys. Didn't realise you had to build a bit of wall either side of the gate and connect to THAT rather than the gate itself.

It's still not ideal because it can open from some way away, but it's good enough for my purposes for now.

+1

There aren't many games that I have sunk this much time into, and I have maximum respect for the way the devs have handled the creation and evolution of this masterpiece.

I will definitely be keeping a close eye on their future endeavours once Factorio is 'finished'.

+1 for upgrade planner. Just for doing yellow -> red or red -> blue belts. I have very few mods, but this is the only one that I would sorely miss.

+1 on C# rather than C++ as a first language.

And yeah, the amount of dev time and experience that's gone into Factorio is not something you will be able to replicate as a rookie programmer.

I'd probably use less underground pipes for short runs, but not many.

Would it have killed the devs to include a 'jump' hotkey and animation? Being able to jumper over pipes (and potentially other obstructions once you get exoskeletons...) would have been enough.

It would make more sense if they just renamed Iron Plates -> Mild Steel Plates and Steel Plate -> Stainless Steel (or maybe Medium or High Carbon steel would be more applicable).

In the real world, Iron Ore is usually turned into steel in a single factory. And yeah, I can't think of any stuff in ...

Is there a way to detect a vehicle (tank or car) using the circuit network?

I saw some old thread that briefly mentioned using gates, but they don't seem to connect to the circuit network, and there was no real explanation of how it would work.

So I've got a Requester Chest where I am setting the Requests via the Circuit Network.

I want to unload this into a Steel Chest using a stack inserter, but ONLY when the Requester Chest is 'full' (i.e. all Requests are filled). The requests may change depending on what is required, e.g. it could be ...