The 'No path' icon flashes to let you know that something is wrong. Destination full is just a solid icon shown in alt-mode. These should make it easier to tell at a glance what a train is up to, without having to do the mental pause to verify there is no flying text notification coming soon. Probl...

And now, a couple years later, we have Bit-Wise Operators and Mod.

This. This is beautiful. Fantastic writing, much engaging very wow
Also, while compilatron may be evil, never lose sight of the TRUE enemy...

trees.

My take is that steel furnaces are more efficient than electrics, and perhaps designed that way. If you solve the extra logistical problem of feeding fuel to a line of steel furnaces, you are awarded with a more output (modules taken out of the equation). Additionally, if you have a steam powered ba...

While conveyors can beat trains for a huge amount of distance, when resource fields are far, FAR away and you are building a megabase, they become more obsolete. The two main advantages of trains are: 1) Throughput. Having three trains go to some iron deposit 5000 spaces away can provide for quite a...