I really really love the posters. Effiency is not important to me when its a display, especially a still one. Actually, I agree with whoever says its Art. As a matter of fact, two of my nephews started a company called Cook & Becker, who print Art quality concept art etc. Might be cool to add this ...

Seeing as some people commented on diminishing returns, has this been considered or mentioned in detail before?

Regardless, I named this as my sollution to bots scaling linear (and belts scale till theyre full or out of space in the setup) is because we had a similar issue in From the Depths.

That ...

But most of all I would love to see a new transport mode which sits in between bots and belts:
Codenamed: Robots on rails
Hah, I actually had an idea exactly like this, but then I realized that basically we are just asking for trains, but smaller. Right now, I'm not in favor of adding a 4th type ...

Btw. on a different note:
Why do you even have to visualize the amount of items in a stack on a belt to begin with? You don't visualize the amount of items that a Stack inserter (or normal inserters considering that you also get a few stack upgrades for normal inserters) is currently holding, so ...

Theyve actually talked about increasing the belt throughput directly through either stacking or packaging, but I think their counter arguments stand true. Stacking on belts doesn't improve their attractiveness for min maxing as long as bots can still do the same with now space restrictions.

My own response to last weeks FF got lost before posting.

I have done game system concept design on games (From the Depths most notably) and the 45 page thread about belts is really fascinating. Almost no-one is saying the current situation is actually fine. There are some problem, but the ...

Personally, I think there might just be a missing link.

There is no better alternative, so increasing cost or reducing effectiveness doesn't really solve the problem, the problem being:
- Space efficient transportation
- High volume transportation
Bots solve both

There is nothing which provides ...