The biggest visual problem I have is that the logo text still isn't vertically justified within itself! Please, please fix that before 1.0!

So if I'm using more than one, I have no option in the poll. Push vs pull balancing require separate designs, and there's multi-belt lane balancing, vs having to throw one on a single belt. I don't see a one size fits all solution.

Adding time to access chests does not eliminate the problem. You can create more chests instead.
Creating more chests is the intent, and it's a good one. By adding more chests, you cannot directly increase the throughput to single dense assemblers, like you can by adding more bots and a bunch of ...

Related question, under the "and why?" subject: Do you consider Long Reach to be cheating or quality of life improvement? Situations that could be considered cheating would be
early-game manual operations
pre-bot inventory refilling logistics
biter nest turret creep/fast building of distant ...

What people mean when they say "violence" is often "gore". I wish the latter was used more to specifically delineate what is being concerned, instead of lumping that under the much more broad "violence".

In my opinion, biters are easily overcome in default settings, and thus are a temporary nuisance that don't add much to the game. It's easy in the early game to patrol past a bit past the pollution cloud, preemptively destroying nests to prevent attacks, and not bothering with much static defense ...

Mine is also still WIP, and isn't fed enough, but this is my plan for sending overkill rails to purple while keeping full density & beaconage. It'll probably need to be left-fed by tons of stone/steel/rods as well.

A little thing that I don't think I've seen mentioned:

I use the bottom-most quickbar as a display for how many raw/intermediate products I'm holding (plates, circuits, stone, etc), and flip the top bar between a few different sets. That lower display is very handy when you're still hand ...

Dominik wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 3:07 pmIn the pipeline.

Pun intended?

By using splitters, you can increase the throughput of a belt into an assembler. The following keeps the assemblers fully busy. It's also mirrorable vertically, and repeatable horizontally until you run out of red circuit bandwidth on that lane.


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I covered the reasons for tanks/rails/signals in my post. I find my newer designs use fewer and fewer combinators and wires, especially since splitters are more powerful nowadays, I don't bother conserving electricity, and I like keeping everything stacked up with slight overproduction.

I am ...

I keep a separate boiler purely for burning trees, disconnected from the main power grid. A couple of empty beacons drains the generated power uselessly, and eats wood pretty quickly.

+1 on removing military science from armor. Without biters, it's a powered utility suit and portable construction roboport.

However, the armor rating itself should probably not increase much without military research. Maybe there can be a few types of armor: utility vs military.

One thing that always bugged me is piping light oil inbetween heavy->light->petroleum cracking, and where the deciding pump for light cracking should be. This is still focusing on a pre-beacon game stage.

It'd be nice if heavy cracking placed its output right into the light cracking, but if the ...

I poked through all the .lua files and tweaked some stuff for engineering focus:

Super long reach, so I can grab from faraway chests & remotely place stuff from the map view(can't open UIs or deconstruct, but oh well)
Increased radar range by quite a bit
Increased solar panel output
Always ...

I don't use bots personally, and do constrain my building to getting beltworks to feed beacon rows. But there's much less scaling and flexibility in the core design itself there, and it's impossible to use belted fully-beaconed assemblers in anywhere near the same design efficiency as non-beacon ...

It would be nice something that hasn't been already suggested may times would come up.
A more oblique point was raised once before, but didn't gain traction. I whole-heartedly agree with it: The problem rests with BEACONS .

Rows of beacons are the only reason we can't use more parallel belt ...

Because there's no risk of one oil product backing up and running out of refined oil for turrets if you take the crude oil directly at the pump instead of taking the refined oil out of the refinery.
Backed up production never causes an outage in the "heavy>light, light>petrol" conditions. The ...

Mine is super simple, with just 3 circuit decisions on pumps:

If Heavy > Lube, make lube
If Heavy > Light, crack
If Light > Petroleum, crack

I used to have fiddly numeric tuning parameters like the above posts, but this Just Works and in my opinion works even better than more complex solutions ...