Klonan wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:06 am

It is working as intended that the cut does nothing with shift: 88262

So there is no way to cut with tiles?

If I shift-drag when selecting an area to copy, the selection rectangle changes from white to blue, and on release a blueprint editor window appears (allowing e.g. inclusion of tiles). If I shift-drag when selecting an area to cut, the selection rectangle changes from white to red, but on release th...

Only works this way with copy. with cut you can place the blueprint on your shortcut bar, and then edit the blueprint. delete after use . Sure, but you can do that without shifting. As it stands, the effect of shift on cut is purely cosmetic, which is surely not the intention. Since it's not just m...

Hold down shift when selecting the area to cut or copy. This will then allow editing of the copy selection as if it was a blueprint which includes allowing entities/times/trains/station names if appropriate. Can someone confirm that this is expected to work with cut as well as with copy? If I shift...

I've always worked on the basis that each boiler-to-boiler or turbine-to-turbine connection is equivalent for flow purposes to one unit of pipe. The wiki table clearly shows that *two* boiler are supposedly the same as *one* pipes though. Yup. And two boilers means one boiler-to-boiler connection.

The page about the https://wiki.factorio.com/Fluid_system#Pipelines only says, a pump-boiler-boiler-pump setup has a tp of 6000/s. What does that mean? Building to building is limited to 6000/s? I've always worked on the basis that each boiler-to-boiler or turbine-to-turbine connection is equivalen...

This is working as intended, unfortunatelly. I'm fairly sure it has only started happening very recently (perhaps even being new in 1.1.25); I noticed it for the first time a day or two ago. Have the intentions changed? (A similar problem with cliffs not being demolished when needed has been around...

Spidertron: Do the exoskeleton speed bonus stack? Are there any diminishing returns? The bonuses add. The fact that they add instead of multiplying is an implicit diminishing return. Maybe I don't know the technical, official, mathy meaning of "diminishing return," but when I use it in th...

Latakia wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:57 pm

Spidertron: Do the exoskeleton speed bonus stack? Are there any diminishing returns?

The bonuses add. The fact that they add instead of multiplying is an implicit diminishing return.

a 1x2 reactor core takes 14 Storage Tanks to hold all the Steam. Every 1x2 you tack on to that adds 26 more Storage Tanks for the Steam. You don't need anything like that many tanks to hold all the energy from one nuclear fuel cell, since the heat pipes also store energy, and you will have at least...

Make prod use fewer components per craft, instead of giving you more outputs. And remove the speed penalty. That is only a quantitative change. For the same percentages, it makes productivity modules better. But it doesn't change the nature of the synergy between productivity and speed. Yes, it doe...

foamy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:02 am

Make prod use fewer components per craft, instead of giving you more outputs. And remove the speed penalty.

That is only a quantitative change. For the same percentages, it makes productivity modules better. But it doesn't change the nature of the synergy between productivity and speed.

Just be glad they do not separate out the Mining Productivity tech into its six (vanilla) components : Coal, Stone, Iron, Copper, Uranium, Crude Oil. That would be one nasty choice, would it not? The choice would be easy: lots of iron and copper and minimal amounts of the rest. But it would be rath...

reprocessing: now 5 used cells -> 3 uran 20% -- 4+1 -> 20 used cells -> 15 uran -> 70 used cells -> 52.5 uran nuclear with kovarex + new reprocessing: --> 107 - 52.5 -> 54.5 uran = 70 cells --> 0.778571428571429 uran = 1 cell You've calculated the productivity on the reprocessing as 25%, not 20%. W...

I know some of you may not care about this, but it's something that I've always been curious about and I'd like to get people's input on the following: What do you think Petroleum Gas is technically supposed to be? It's just a collective term for the lightest fractions of the crude petroleum oil. P...

I'd much rather a system that can extract all the heat from a reactor albiet with minor non-utilization in the exchangers/turbines than one balanced the other way around. In principle I agree. The reactors set the maximum sustained average power production, while the turbines set the maximum instan...

Koub wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:17 pm

we have a saying in French : Hell is paved with good intentions.

A subtle but interesting difference from the English version, which has ''The road to Hell" instead of just "Hell".

Yep, I'd also agree that upgrading from yellow to red and from red to blue should be done later rather than sooner. a yellow belt is 1.5 iron, 1 red belt is 11.5 iron, and a blue 31.5 iron and 20 lube. The service to cost ratio is heavily tilted towards the smaller tier, so higher tiers should only...

This is to make the stuff in the quickbar act like items. If you have something in your cursor and click over an item, it moves to the new slot. there was a lot of confusion about the shortcut vs item thing before. I like the new change: it seems more correct. But the whole point is that while the ...

Added logistic requests to spidertron. Added support to use blueprints, deconstruction planners, upgrade planners, and modded selection tools from the map view. Added vertical/horizontal blueprint flipping. Ghost build can be used to fast replace non-ghost entities, which results in an upgrade orde...