Okay - so I guess everyone is content with the power output of reactors , which, after thinking on the mechanic more, they do seem ok. They scale well enough to be underpowered or overpowered, as far as one wishes to take them.

My bigger issue, I suppose, is with the reactor-heat exchanger-turbine ...

Yes, and yet somehow, people spend Lots more solar panels and use Lots more space, even though steam engines are cheaper and take up way less space.

Solar panels to trade space for lack of upkeep.
Nuclear power to trade resources for reduced space usage.

As I mentioned in my initial post, I ...

Yes, that aspect was taken into consideration to the extreme - 25 reactors, 420 heat exchangers, 2,940 steam turbines. By my metric, it was still 4x the resource cost of steam power per MW.

electric trains don't use batteries, they are usually just powered through electric rails, as there is already a metal conduit run where ever they are traveling.

most trains today are diesel-electric - a high efficiency diesel motor is tuned to a efficient RPM to spin a generator which banks some ...

nuclear fusion does not use uranium. reactors that burn uranium are fission reactors, they are splitting unstable uranium-235 atoms (as opposed to stable uranium atoms - U-238). massive amounts of heat are given off when this happens, that heat is used to turn water in to steam which is used to turn ...

TL;DR: nuclear reactors should produce 10x the MW heat energy that they currently do, and steam turbines should be 2:1 turbine/reactor ratio



I haven't played .15 yet, in fact, I haven't played since .13 or so. I have been waiting for some of these big updates.

I watched a handful of videos on ...

Oh, I see now - downloading it as I type this. I guess I should have read above beforehand... Thanks!

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Having an issue now using Electric trains, logistic chest carts, accumulator wagon, etc.

Error while running event handler: __5Dim_Trains__/control.lua:579:LuaBootstrap Doesn't Contain Key ...

12.15 - "no loader for 'rail'" upon startup. I have 5Dim Core and 5Dim Trains. Looked through some of the files, didn't see anything that looked out of place.

nothing serious - just a quick little idea I had that may help with gameplay. Don't mean to be a forum troll, but I think it's pretty self-explanatory in the title. Since the player now has personal roboports, I think it only makes sense to include inventory to the rest of the network. Well, at ...

I know it kind of takes away from the theme, but assuming this pollution is carbon-based emissions, shouldn't plant life be flourishing??

Its unfortunate the way steam engines are that you need 93!! to keep up with the 50MW plant.

Couldn't you start the game on 0.3.0 and remove the objects in-game? Then upgrade to 0.4.0?

I tried that, when the game loads it says "expected UraniumPower_0.4.3, received UraniumPower_0.3.0" and then closes. It won't let me load the game without it now.

EDIT: I deleted 0.4.3, opened the game ...

I guess its beyond being saved. I can open it in the editor no problem, but as soon as I try to delete anything with the old hexafluoride, a mouse-over causes the crash.

Is there any way to fix it?? I have the save file opened up in the map editor.

Please excuse me, as I'm not fully competent in modding this game yet, but, when I updated from 0.3.0 to 0.4.3, the game will crash when I try to load my save with 0.3.0. Just a "Factorio has stopped working".

I simply placed 0.4.3 into my mods folder and removed 0.3.0. Is that the wrong way??

That's ok, I can get the same way. Like I said, I appreciate you calling me out - I don't WANT to be wrong! But, for the sake of "it's just a game" :?

Anyways, I don't understand what you mean to split it into two pieces. Two different threads? My basis for suggesting both, despite them being ...

Faster, in terms of what? How fast construction bots lay down blueprint items?

Maybe the upgraded bots - Bob's mod or DyTech style - would be sufficient? I haven't fooled around with them enough to say for sure.

There's a number of things that could be stopping production. Plastic requires an input of both petroleum AND coal.

Does it have the necessary ingredients?
Does it have somewhere to put completed products?
Are your pipes connected properly?

And that's why you posted, right? To discuss and build on the idea. I think you both made some good points - I like the idea of superconductors, but I think flying roboports are too easy.

When I build roboports, I try to get the most out of them. I place them in a grid where they all connect at ...

I don't believe there is any representation of liquid-based production. But, if you're transporting crude in barrels, or making sulfur or plastic from petrol, it could show up on your production tab. That is, if you produce enough of it.

I get by fine just by checking how much liquid is stored in ...