Lua is generally the defacto language for most games these days. [...] If it were up to me, gaming folks would be using python3.6+ Python is powerful and flexible. But that power comes at a price in infrastructure overhead. To embed Lua in an application, including the usual built-in Lua libraries,...

I am using a simple roundabout for my base. I know it’s not the best It would be much better if it were properly signalled: with the loop divided into quadrants by chain signals, your two sample trains wouldn't even have to stop at all. This one is signalled for LHT, but you just have to flip the s...

Aru wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:39 pm

Yes, but you had to move the tracks to do it. The configuration you have here works equally well for RHT or LHT (and is in fact the one I usually use now).

I mostly assumed, and very non-extensively tested, that right hand drive had more options for signalling intersections. You'd think so, wouldn't you. But let me offer a counter-example. This simple T-junction is optimally signalled for LHT: LHTOnly.png I can see no way that the same configuration o...

FunMaker wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:23 pm

My question is:
Will all entities see a change of value in the same tick?

The same tick as each other, yes. The change of value is seen by all entities the tick after it is calculated.

astroshak wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:45 pm

your wonton destruction of their homes

A food fight to the death? ("The shrimp and egg wasn't very effective; load all barrels with pork and cabbage.")

I do NOT care about chunk alignment. Honestly, I do not see any point in it. I do for two main reasons. It avoids annoying mismatches when connecting stretches of track built separately or from opposite ends. With alignment, the minimum mismatch is the alignment spacing, which is enough to justify ...

What is the optimal distance between the rails? And in which direction (left/right-handed traffic)? I've settled (like many others seem to have) on a gap of two rails (four tiles) between non-diagonal tracks. I use left-handed traffic, since that's what I'm accustomed to and also because having the...

Can someone point me to some pictures of loading/unloading stations so I can learn? I don't want blueprints. I would rather learn the concepts and then build my own. I do want to stick with Red Belts for this, as I'm trying to create my own little blueprint book for early-mid-game prints for a late...

DaveMcW wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:16 am

Because "Follower robot count" is not a very useful technology.

True. But the other infinite military techs are. Though "Follower robot count" is (for hysterical raisins?) the only one to require military tech as well as production tech; the others are all military instead of production.

The game cannot know if you accidentally forgot to open the switch. No it can't. Not now, not ever, never. But that applies just as much to a single switch as to a chain of two or more. Right now the game treats all 'off' switches as errors, which is silly; the only other consistent and practicable...

The game cannot know if you accidentally forgot to open the switch. No it can't. Not now, not ever, never. But that applies just as much to a single switch as to a chain of two or more. Right now the game treats all 'off' switches as errors, which is silly; the only other consistent and practicable...

The things gets interesting, if there is are switches turned off (I called them closed). Now when you keep in mind, that united networks behave like one big network, and you don’t find any producers in it, you need to look at the off-switches and look, if there is any producer on the “other side”. ...

My algorithm: All, the game need to detect, is "would be device have power if all switches are on?". Let me rephrase myself. 1.Is any active energy producer in device's network? yes - no warning (powered); 2.Is any active energy producer in all network, connected by switches(in any state)? yes - sm...

I'd expect whatever color is actually shown on the source to copy over, just like any non-default color. Yes, and this should be complemented by an option in the colour setting UI to 'delete' the custom colour (or to 'restore the default') so that if you really do want 'nil' you can easily get it. ...

Algorithm: - are there any power producers in my network? - yes, but no switches -> big warning - find all power switches in this network - for each switch look, if the switch is closed. - If all would be open -> big warning - for each closed switch look if the other side (the “outside”) is a power...

Serenity wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:23 pm

Two rail spacing to the left. As you can see it's not enough to connect the S-Bend.

As you can see, it is enough. (Not that you would want to very often anyway, since usually the point of a pair of tracks is that they are going in opposite directions.)

If your two signals result in zero, you can use a Decider Combinator with the condition Everything = 0 and output a different signal with a non zero value to indicate the zero result. If that's what you need. But Null does not equal Zero, that's what I meant by "you can't check if the signal is nul...

although 60 gas is produced and 60 gas consumption is 1-1 ratio, gas accumulates in the left-hand warehouse in a short time. Who can explain this? In the picture, the output of the plastic factories is backed up. That will stop them producing, and make gas accumulate in the storage tank. If you are...

How do i use a blueprint from the book (B-Key) and put it into my inventory without deleting the blueprint from the book? So i can use the blueprint in the next game again. Don’t put it in your inventory, put it in your quickbar instead. That way you get a reference to the blueprint while still lea...