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- Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:26 pm
- Forum: Combinator Creations
- Topic: Digital Display, Yay!
- Replies: 114
- Views: 149405
Re: Digital Display, Yay!
So can someone explain how to use constant and decider combinators to create an alphabet? Edit for specificity: I understand that you have 1 constant combi for 0-9 and that it holds the signals you need to send to turn on each light. What I don't understand is how to use it as a lookup library for m...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:31 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Factories arnt built over night, mode?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4488
Re: Factories arnt built over night, mode?
Can't afford to stand around. Need to get more resources ready because you're going to use a boatload of them on everything. Yeah, you'll breeze through red research like normal, but as soon as you hit those green packs you will be constantly expanding just to get enough iron and copper for everythi...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:50 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Planning mode?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6427
Re: Planning mode?
So you want to plan with technology you haven't even discovered yet? Interesting. Does that seem strange? Is that your point? I'm not sure why. For instance, you set up labs pretty early in the game, but don't start feeding blue and alien research until far along. but if you don't leave space or pl...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:10 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Oh, well that's a nice surprise...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2247
Re: Oh, well that's a nice surprise...
Tinyboss wrote:I guess I had never really looked at the recipe for purple science potions all that closely...never noticed you got 10 for each artifact. I had saved up 150 artifacts before I even tried to produce any!
I did the same thing. It IS a nice surprise.
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:15 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Long distance transport
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17742
Re: Long distance transport
People forget one of the most important resources is *time*. I think most important is fun. So if you like trains, you have no problem spend time to play with them. And if you don't like trains just don't use them, but there is no reason to discourage others from using them. But if everyone doesn't...
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 9:44 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Planning mode?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6427
Re: Planning mode?
Given that you can immediately and for no penalty pick up anything you have built, I don't see a purpose for designing before building. It would be useful if you need to plan out a design that includes things you don't have unlocked yet in your tech tree -- those are things that you can't just plop...
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:06 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Long distance transport
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17742
Re: Long distance transport
Just use 27 normal belts. No biggy.
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:17 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Long distance transport
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17742
Re: Long distance transport
Trains go both ways. Trains can move YOU out to your base quickly.
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:54 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Long distance transport
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17742
Re: Long distance transport
Rakshasa wrote:Use transport belts.
Once the mining resource is used up, the belt can be repurposed for the next resource you find in that direction.
Use trains.
Once the mining resource is used up, the train can be repurposed for the next resource you find in that direction.
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:24 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Planning mode?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6427
Re: Planning mode?
Given that you can immediately and for no penalty pick up anything you have built, I don't see a purpose for designing before building.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:17 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: [solved] HELP! No petroleum coming out?!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3371
Re: [solved] HELP! No petroleum coming out?!
Something's still not right. You need to do something with all the heavy and light oil. Storage thing, whatever. But you can't MIX them. And you should have a petroleum-gas-only line running to your chemical plant. So it will pump PG into the chemical plant, meanwhile it will pump light oil into sto...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:37 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: How can I control production amounts better?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6102
Re: How can I control production amounts better?
You want to keep stuff off the belts. The best way to do that is smart inserters and chests. Wire the smart inserters that pull the packs out to some smart chests at the end that act as feeders. So the red pack inserter is wired to the chests and looks for at least 3 green RPs, or it doesn't pull an...
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:13 pm
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Can I remove rocks and other obstructions?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7713
Re: Can I remove rocks and other obstructions?
Rocks: yeah, they have a health status, so just shoot them :) Basic gun will take forever though, SMG hurries that up quite a bit, proper shotgun with upgrades vaporizes them. Lakes: Nothing in base game, but there's a mod called Landfill that will allow you do dump a load of stone into it. Nothing...
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Facts #60 - Tests all around
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21199
Re: Friday Facts #60 - Tests all around
Well, good, you're automating testing. Your video-game factory just leveled up.
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:29 pm
- Forum: Releases
- Topic: Version 0.11.2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 45024
Re: Version 0.11.2
New robots? That must be why I didn't recognize my robots. That was rather embarrassing when I didn't recognize Joebot, and I didn't know... should I mention it? Should I not mention it? "Hey, Joebot, looking good in your new duds!" Will he be offended if I don't notice? If I do notice? Ar...
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:17 pm
- Forum: Multiplayer
- Topic: Factorio Hydra Competition!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5985
Re: Factorio Hydra Competition!
I was going for encouraging.
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: Multiplayer
- Topic: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers! :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13369
Re: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers
Davkilla101 wrote:Never heard of evolve before :O
Me either, come play anyway.
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 5:38 pm
- Forum: Multiplayer
- Topic: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers! :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13369
Re: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers
You have a gig of save games?
That's a bit impressive!
I plan to try MP with you sometime, and/or Fish. Could be exciting. Could be dreary and laggy. We'll find out!
That's a bit impressive!
I plan to try MP with you sometime, and/or Fish. Could be exciting. Could be dreary and laggy. We'll find out!
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:46 pm
- Forum: Multiplayer
- Topic: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers! :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13369
Re: Join Hydra on Evolve and play with other Factorio lovers
The biggest problem I see is the possibility of continuing to start new games with different people instead of getting to play one game out with someone. At some point we have to get past the start! :P You don't have a play a map with the same person every time. :P Not having to is different from n...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:32 pm
- Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
- Topic: Mistakes with the steam turbines/boilers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2726
Re: Mistakes with the steam turbines/boilers
What's the ambient water temperature on this foreign planet?
Does the pump have a filter in it?
Does the pump supply enough water to pressurize the pipes? How much water pressure can it provide?
Do you even know? How can you?
Does the pump have a filter in it?
Does the pump supply enough water to pressurize the pipes? How much water pressure can it provide?
Do you even know? How can you?