aim a fan at the keyboard 8)

this seems to be against everything that LTN was designed for. good job.

One of the problems I have encountered after having been a software engineer for about 25 years now is that features and fixes are billable hours, while writing tests are not billable hours. In 95% of the time I have to 'sneakily' add tests during development. Everything is a priority, everything h...

you can also set a standard rail signal to red using a combinator! then nothing will travel past that point. it's a silly solution, but it's mine. Wouldn't that have trains driving towards the station till they hit the red signal and then block traffic? Unless you do it between a stacker and the st...

it's times like this that i wish my brain worked better with geometric maths. where's my TI-89 calculator...

you can also set a standard rail signal to red using a combinator! then nothing will travel past that point. it's a silly solution, but it's mine.

Yeah, that is part of the issue. To really get a lot of performance out of Factorio the engine would have to be designed from scratch in an extremely parallellizable way: kindof cellular-automaton style where state of each object depends only on previous state of a itself and a limited number of ne...

That would require more effort than simply re-arranging the rails. Is it possible to simply change a file or execute a lua command? you would have to change one of the core prototype definition files, which is arguably more work than using a mod. in fact, there's already a mod for this: https://mod...

have you considered making a (python, lua, some other language) test framework that loads up a Lua interpreter and helps run unit tests without loading up the entire game? i can see that being a big burden of initial development work but once it's done, would be very useful... even Wube could implem...

I do high-performance code for a living and I don't think I could speed up Factorio engine significantly without essentially rewriting all of it from scratch and redesigning it in a performance-friendly way. @posila: if you guys ever needed any help with high-performance code, I can donate any reas...

glad someone else mentioned memory bandwidth so i don't have to

whole lot of misunderstandings about hardware in this thread

jodokus31 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:10 pm

IIRC, it was still in experimental phase of 1.1.
Final release was in 2021 according to this
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-364

EDIT: The actual module change was for 1.1.0
So, it was a major release

keep shifting the goalpost however you need to feel good about yourself

they even adjusted productivity module balance post-release. broke some builds! oh no! turns out that's not actually a problem.

well, that's your opinion. they've changed productivity post-release, etc. you can put productivity modules in uranium cell recycling. they're allowed to change the game. it's just a game. people can get upset, i doubt they will stop playing. You could always use productivity in fuel reprocessing. ...

We re-did factories or start over with new games many times already. What was ok for an early access beta isn't ok for a stable, released game . Expectations are very different and many people can be upset. Sure, new features and small balancing changes are still possible. They already buffed produ...

In counterstrike the ping was quite important, 10 ms less could mean success or death. In Factorio 10 milliseconds is nothing, which a player needs to account for. Well, it’s not comfortable to play with 200 ms lag, but still possible, while counterstrike is not possible to play with such a lag (su...

Not in vanilla with trains. Unless you can use oil or methan barrels in trains? They introduced it in the nuclear reactor and then mods picked it up and used it in other places. For example Nullius has among others Hydrogen Canisters that burn and leave behind Water Canisters. It's often used as a ...

imTheSupremeOne wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 06, 2021 3:35 am

yes pls, +1 for the feature

they already said no. i think this oughtta be removed to "Won't Implement".

I tested the highlighting in the inventory by moving the inventory window out of the way as much as possible and then hovering over one of the items marked with yellow. But while I get a tooltip about bots on the way and I can see the bots on the map they still aren't highlighted. So even for the p...