Is there any chance that you'll add the ability to blueprint train station names?

I'm getting 500 errors from your server when I try uploading a save game larger than 33mb. Known?

Let's try again w/ a 33mb save.

EDIT - that seems to be about the limit. Can't upload a 34mb file.

Hm. I can't seem to upload the save. Let me try an earlier, smaller save.

Comment reserved for save upload:

The save is 47 megs. Is that above the forum limit?

Factorio Von Neumann Mk. 3 - The Omnibus

Album here: http://imgur.com/a/ATPXn

01. In my last post (https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/2vuefz/factorio_von_neumann_mk_1_lessons_learned_and_the/) I said that the dream of factorio is to create a self-replicating factory. It's good to know that ...

So... what are the lua properties of a ghost?

It would make life much easier to be able to simply strip the non-electric/roboport ghosts out of my massive plan with a command. Something like

for _, entity in ipairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{area = area, name = "ghost"}) do ...

Okay, watching construction, I see now that roboports powering-off is in fact killing a lot of my construction time.

Are there any mods out there that will either:
1) Make robots prioritize electric/roboport ghosts? or
2) Allow me to clone and edit a blueprint to remove everything but electric ...

Glad to know I'm not alone.

The unpowered roboports cancelling construction is more of a minor inconvenience than the fact that only one construction robot is assigned per tick. That max limit makes it kind of pointless to have more than 18k construction robots.

The real developer solution to ...

So my simulation has settled into a consistent 20-30 fps for my mega factory. What should I do to bring it up again?

I've turned on fullscreen and turned off vsync and upped the thread count to 4, and none of them seemed to do anything to the framerate.

My machine was top of the line like 6 years ...

I'd like them to build more quickly than 5 minutes. The ghost expiry is more of an inconvenience.

Starving out all my outpost blueprints while the main factory builds itself is actually more of a problem. I guess I could create a skeleton blueprint with just power and roboports, but inventory space ...

Ah. Ahhh... my blueprint are going from the bottom up, not from the top down. :(
How would I hack the source code of my blueprint to go from top-down to bottom-up? Does it matter which direction I draw it from?

Weird that ghosts don't have priority.

Also weird that it only examines one per tick ...

Are you planning to make the trailer exactly the same as before?

Would you like to call on the community for photogenic factory savegames to put into the trailer?

How much does a license for Raymond Scott's Powerhouse cost? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY

I'm building my Von Neuman Mk.3 on belts, and I'm seeing some weird, non-deterministic behavior whenever I plop an expansion.

The attached screenshot has the original 21.2k element expansion, and it actually built pretty smoothly off of ~3k construction robots.
I've since:
-added about 600 solar ...

Thanks, but I'm looking at something on the order of 30000-50000 robots and my computer's a bit old, so I'd like to squeeze out every bit I can. =)

I'm trying to build the largest factory I can before my computer melts. The 0.12 patch has really helped with that, but I'm looking at making tradeoffs for convenience.

Once a requestor chest is full and stays full, does it still eat system resources? I'd like stacks of rails and electric miners ...

Thanks Koub!

Will rocks continue to spawn as I explore more area? Will I need to execute this command over and over?

It's been a while since I played. I really want to perfect my von neumann factory (http://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/2wutet/factorio_prevon_neumann_mk_2_planning_and_theory/), but there are lots of things vying for my time right now, and I just can't justify spending hours shotgunning down ...

Hm. I suppose leaving stuff on the ground would just be terrible computationally.


I did some experimenting with chaining train cars, and unfortunately, there are a number of insurmountable problems:
1) End to end (and in general), rails will only lay 2 tiles apart. They will never lay 1 tile apart ...

Attaching the save, if the devs are interested.

@ssilk - The word you're looking for is viral. The key to virality is the self-sufficiency and self-similarity of each cellular bit. Where a complicated organism (or city) can excel at a complicated task or at an efficient distribution of resources or ...