I find myself thinking that Satisfactory handles this issue way better, what with their priority breaker switches and such.

I don't see any issue in the first place. The factory grows, and so does power consumption. Any obsoleted power plant isn't enough as safeguard against brownouts. If you ...

There is no means to read such statistical data into the simulation, and it's not possible in general to directly read power consumption of some factory part.

What you can do is adding a bunch of accumulators and check the charge. Whenever it is below 100, all connected power plants are at full ...

Stupid question: why is this relevant and worth researching?

As far as I understand, this recipe is meant for just for a few crafts (20-30?) for cold starting a stopped factory, so any kind of boost or efficiency isn't relevant. Afterwards the vastly more efficient "nutrients from bioflux" and ...

it would be ages away which makes me question how I would transfer energy and the resources used to mine the uranium.

How far is "ages away" for you? Did you build trains yet? Because for a decent railway infrastructure, you would create yourself some kind of schema how to build fast and far ...

I have balancing at the loading station as well as at the unloading station, so this will correct itself or not show up to begin with. This is a major feature of a robust production chain start. I added explicit balancing, because full trains alone don't guarantee everything will stay balanced. Full ...

I have such a timeout, and the train will leave with partial cargo, and it will be unloaded along with all the other trains. There's no issue with a partially filled train showing up at unload once every few days. Or is there?

For my farms with circuit controlled harvesting, I see no need to ever deactivate planting seeds, because ripe fruits don't spoil as long as they are not being harvested. I harvest on demand, and there should be as many fruits available as possible, so all plants should have grown as much as ...

If you switch recipes, you always have to implement a means to remove ejected ingredients. Usually, they're being removed along with the expected output, so you can filter them and feed them back to the input. You can also remove them with a dedicated inserter with a proper filter.

But trying to ...

what is the first valid recipe signal, or the first valid item signal, or the first valid entity signal

Signals have an internal sorting order. If you open the signal picker dialog, signals more to the left, more to the top have higher priority, and if they're on different tabs, signals on tabs ...

Do others see the same behaviour?

Yes, you describe how underground belts work and are supposed to work. This is no bug.

Your issue is that you expect the underground belt piece passes items straight to a belt piece on the opposite side. But it doesn't work like this. The underground pieces do ...

May be the underground belt runs the wrong direction and tries to move pieces underground to the not existing exit. Press R over the underground belt piece to change the direction, so your piece becomes the exit and ejects the sideloaded items.

both me and (seemingly) the topic starter are that kind of player. We want more time between when you obtain the full power and when the extrinsic motivation ends.

Yes, I'm not just bored or just expect to be entertained, but it's really difficult to come up with something meaningful later ...

I haven't accounting the extra effort to synthesize coal yet. So it is fair to say it is more ineffective to apply flame throwers on gleba. That is why I call it fine as a specialized solution for nauvis.

You can just ship a rocket load full of crude oil barrels (100 barrels = 5000 crude oil ...

A properly cooled and not overclocked CPU doesn't age, extended uptime under high load doesn't matter for stability issues.
The thermal paste also doesn't really age. Some gamer website info suggest it could be changed after 2-3 years, but as far as my research and my experience goes, this is not ...

I don't see a reason to void any fluid. Your problem usually doesn't come up on a Aquilo base. For every fluid, there is some recipe that consumes this fluid. The recipes are balanced in a way they will consume more than what is being produced.

About fluoroketone (cold) and fluoroketone (hot ...

Quality as goal in itself is what I feel is lacking, tedious and no fun. I tried and started to build. It looks interesting at first, but if you look deeper, many interesting to get quality items have regular ingredients except one. That one cannot be just upcycled as intermediate, it has to be ...

remove the quality system entirely while maintaining balance in late game (my understanding is that space ships in late game need some high quality components like grabbers and recyclers to be viable).

All of Space Age is perfectly viable without quality. From the first rocket launch up to ...

I'm again at the end of a map: every tech unlocked, every planet has a decent and fully automated base, some levels of promethium science researched, interplanetary logistics established and stable.

The only thing not even started is quality. It's because it is the only thing in Factorio that's not ...

I did it! I forgot about the inserter updates. There are no more filter and stack-filter-inserters in 2.0, and the stack inserter was renamed to bulk inserter. I used the cargo landing pad and the display panel as replacement signals.

This save and this blueprint definitely work with vanilla ...

I employed Chatgpt to get me a better signal replacement with a jq filter, and here are the results. I used shape-horizontal and shape-vertical as signal replacements for satellite and rocket-control-unit.

Save file for vanilla Factorio 2.0 with the imported blueprint, ingame game can be started ...