I was a bit taken aback by this, but I guess what you're saying is: Destroyed rocks won't drop stone. But mined rocks (and deconstructed rocks) still will. This makes sense in the context of the game, as destroyed trees don't drop wood and destroyed cliffs don't drop anything. Yes exactly, mining t...

Regarding the electric network. My approach would have been to optimize based on groups, i.e. idle or full load. For these two cases there is no need to iterate through the entities, instead we just track the total power consumption. Then you track changes instead. All entities report when they no ...

But what if a chunk is revealed by more than 255 radars?

Everyone talks about freezing, refrigerator cars, etc... ...no one's said anything about the original solution to this problem: canning. Canning (or rather the boiling afterwards which makes it actually preservable) changes the chemical makeup of the biological material. That's not (usually) a prob...

On showing quantities, something like may be a good fit from the user side (compared to existing in rich text). Though of course I don't know if you can get at the numbers easily from the engine side.

Do we know what hour and timezone the expansion releases on? I find it entertaining to put countdowns to games on my phone screens, and I enjoy the absurdity of counting hours if possible. "102" days is just not as entertaining as "101 days, XX hours, XX minutes". I'd guess 1PM ...

Loewchen wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 15, 2024 6:34 pm

BrainGamer_ wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 15, 2024 6:22 pm

Where did you get that last part from? Afaik you can have a vanilla + quality game, no SA.

The recycler is unlocked by mining scrap, scrap only exists on fulgora, fulgora requires SA.

Vanilla and SA have different tech trees.

CyberCider wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:57 pm

JustSmileMan wrote: ↑

Fri May 31, 2024 11:34 pm

Ya'll really just named this planet a Polish slang term for "ground". 10/10 gonna buy for sure.

Well, the name of our own planet is also a word for “ground”

If a story wants to be posh, they call our world terra. Which is Latin for ground.

Somehow, this feels like it needs its own building appearances. Anything you put down would be covered by something alive in no time.

These stats would, imo, only be meaningful if you could select a section of your base and then get these stats from only within that selection. Allowing to do that dynamically would require storing statistics for every assembler individually. I highly doubt that'd ever be viable. Allowing users to ...

A less breaking version of this would be to normalize in data:extend(), so you can initially set either version but when reading you always get the array version. That would probably be more implementation work though.

Is a 1/sqrt(n) lookup table faster than doing the computation directly? Maybe if Lua I guess. Yes. Only the most simple functions will break even or be faster than a predictable memory load. But more importantly, having it as a table makes it trivially modable. I would rather say it depends. The bi...

I even recall having had to write extra code in a parser to reject trailing commas in array definitions.

While I agree with your formatting preferences Fury, I suspect being blind to your own mistakes applies here as well.

JackTheSpades wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 11:30 am

With turrets and artillery in the circuit network, all that is left is being able to send target coordinates to a artillery unit. Why? No idea but it could be fun

Automated deforestation.

If the game engine uses 2 different memory pools for data that's "read-only" and data that changes every tick, then the amount of memory duplicated in copy-on-write can be minimized to less than "doubling the memory usage", but I don't know if Wube uses any memory management str...

If it's possible, it might be worth exploring if the forked Factorio instance could unload essentially everything but raw entity data or similar. I don't know much about the internals of the game, even after reading all FFFs. If the fork() finishes and the forked process checks if it is the child a...

Akronymus wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:04 am

The first few seconds of the last music file gives me heavy simcity 4 vibes, specifically some rush hour expansion tracks. I REALLY like it.

I think either "gridlock" or "bumper to bumper"

It makes me think of puzzle pieces sliding around.

Perhaps if you could do that with a filtered storage chest instead?

Regarding pump filters. Say I have two pumps with different filters stationed next to the same fluid car connection point. Does the filter affect which pump connects to the car?