I need quality items. But with the amount of options I have, I feel really lost. This is especially, because I know there's really just one or two ways to effectively create high-quality items. Everything else is just wasteful. This makes it quite frustrating for me, because I like the puzzle, but I ...

> I just think it eats away at the sense of accomplishment for designing great things, when eventually they will be no longer applicable. I guess, said another way.

Very well said.

> until the very very end game.

And that's several dozen hours into the game. A point where a serious question is ...

One thing I loved about Factorio was the immense replayability, because it was so easy to improve previous layouts and factories. You quite quickly reach the point where you get advanced oil refining, assembler 3 or stack inserters, so that you can really start tinkering and optimising.

I feel like ...

I am talking about the connection to the logistics network, not the connection to the circuit network.

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> And my personal belongings screw them up.

What do you mean by "your personal belongings"? Items in your inventory are not in the logistics network.

Why do you need this? I see two reasons not complicating the situation:

1) If you have multiple cargo bays, filling the available drop slots immediately sends the pod on its way freeing them up. Adding additional drop slots would not increase the speed you could do that.

2) If you regularly need ...

TL;DR
Requester chests should be connectable to the logistics network in the same way inserters are, enabling the requests on certain conditions.


What?
Inserters can be connected to the logistics network, allowing for conditions that are based on the amount of items within the logistic network ...

Gleba fucking sucks! There are so many reason it sucks, I really don't care to write them all down. Fuck Gleba and fuck the fucking Stompers and shit!

I chose the strategy of "it must never stop", and it hasn't for over 100 hours
Think of nutrients as your power grid


Copium. No-one designs his factory to be a pain in the ass to reboot or cold-boot. If anything, designing the game around this mechanic is an oversight from the game developers ...

I have a small factory and restarting nutrients is a pain in the ass. You need an abnormal amount of spoilage to get it going again and the nutrient production in the biochambers takes so many nutrients, it's absurd. This is not fun, it's nothing but a major pain in the ass.

It forces you to really consider how to use signals and switches to balance your grid, conserve fuel and limit pollution.


You don't have signals and switches that early, so it makes sense that a comparatively weak power source (that also causes significant pollution and takes away precious ...

Whatever it's main point or not - early game on Gleba is frustratingly hard compared to Vulcanus and Fulgora.


I completely agree. I'ts not that I dislike the spoilage mechanic. It's that I feel that I can't progress, until I figured out every step of all the paths I must take, immediately.

On ...

+1

I have the following BP

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The Inserter that feeds into the storage chest should insert X stacks of the produced item.

My problem is that I don't know how I can ask the player to provide a number. And then I need to use that number and multiply it with the stack sice of {0 ...

I named it Nostromo .

It is designed for ~75 % efficiency with the most simple circuit I could think of, and I decided to go for minimal width for maximum speed. It will start at 51% but will settle at ~75% after a couple of seconds.

Power on Nauvis is a problem I haven't solved yet. Probably just ...

Same here. If I require only 5 inserters and 5 belts and 5 underground belts - and nothing else! - then a rocket with exactly that content should be launched into space without requiring me to add any circuitry.

Instead, 5 rockets are launched into space with a full stack of each of the three items ...

That's cool and all, but which of my machines do have a buffer? Where's the problem in my case?

I learned that unloading only works if you request it on the cargo landing pad. Maybe both needs to be active, the request and the Unload checkbox?

Sanqui wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 9:52 am I've added a lightbox feature -- let me know if this works for you.

That is awesome, thank you!

I have a small electric network with 3 x beacons (no modules), 1 x chemical plant, 1 x steam turbine. The network runs on an isolated, disconnected substation. There are no other power poles or substations in the vicinity. The image shows a fourth beacon, that I add later.

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