Each GW requires 15.000 coal per minute. Making a steam power plant might now be slightly easier, at this level it introduces very real logistic issues. Even if you have enough coal patches to deliver 15k/minute for hundreds of hours, as you say, you still have to get that to the power plant and in...

Yea man, do it like you want it, I'll upgrade if/when I want there's no rule - the obsession round here with throughput is a bit silly. IMO, upgrading something that doesn't actually need it for the throughput is a waste of time and resources. But that's me. There's nothing on that map that needs a...

I thought that maybe now that steam power has been buffed so much people would stop complaining about how OP solar power is. How naive of me. New ore generation algorithm gives rich enough deposits that coal will not run out if you go far enough. Once you have set up your coal mining and steam power...

I agree. I can't think while it's blinking so I have to connect whatever I'm building just to get rid of the blinking icons. Hard to design something when the natural state of something that is half finished sends out brain shutdown impulses...

There is also the little thing that this ratio assumes stable power usage. If one uses laser turrets then there WILL be massive fluctluations and it makes sense to use more accumulators than that ratio would suggest. Btw this is a fallacy. In practise if you don't have excess solar then day time at...

With my building store I abandoned basic inserters as soon as I got fast ones automated, they are cheap enough. Automated red belts and replaced all my basic belts as soon as I could too. In my first game I basically only used basic belts and inserters, but now I know better.

I can't find a proper usage for beackons in any of my factories due to 2 factors 1. They are too big. 3x3 is an overkil imo and having them 2x2 would fit many more factory designs 2. 750kW is really an overkill especially before you reach endgame And for me its a really big surprise to find out tha...

I'm impressed by the Qon design. [...] if I ever get around to making a GW powerplant I'd definitely consider the 30 long steam engine strings. Thanks BlakeMW. I might be able to compress or upgrade it further though. I'm thinking that it might be possible to merge the pipes slightly earlier withou...

I looked at that picture already. Where is there anything about 200% pumps and 1 tile per pump? If you think artificial shore length doesn't count as shore length, you're totally missing the idea. Every pump is still taking the normal space. It's 6 pumps on 6 tiles vertically. It increases the widt...

Patric20878 wrote:1 pump per tile? Picture please.

I've told you to look at the pictures many times already. viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8854&start=170#p174356
Are you finally going to look at it?
I even included closeup pictures.

Actually there is a (very work intensive) solution to this ... first off using most of 0.12 generation, but add in the ponds of 0.13. The ponds in 0.13 is the worst part of the 0.13 generator and definitly a bug. If you like it use high segmentation. Let us who use low segmentation get low water se...

I fully concede on all points. Except for the fact that the wiki is still wrong. Some numbers are correct (namely the durations in tick and in seconds) but the percentages are wrong now. (Im talking about the table at https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Game-day ) Thank you. And yes the "...

Don't feed the troll guys. He isn't going to test anything in game even though he has been proven wrong in another thread. Just make sure he doesn't try to screw up the numbers in the wiki and leave the thread to die. LuaSurface.darkness (which the mod uses) is capped at 0.85, it is completely usele...

Almost all of what you said so far in response to my posts show that you either did not read or misread my posts, including this case. Nice save. Everyone will now believe you instead of me. Clever. I think people who read your posts can draw their own conclusions and don't really need me or you to...

I was not testing solar panel capacity. I was just measuring the brightness on different times of the day. But listen, I've presented my findings. I've drawn conclusions and I've spelled out all logic and interpretation of my findings which have nothing to do with solar panels, just time and bright...

Extending it to 30 is reducing wasted shore length. No, the point isn't to make it longer, it's to have more steam engines per row to reduce the amount of rows. If you use more steam engines per row it does become longer of course. Reduces it how? 15 already gets 100% shore usage. 30% gets 100% sho...

And you still missed my point. Have solar panel output actually changed? That is the only thing that matters here. All other details are secondary. No one should change the wiki, because there's no info suggesting the data is false. I measured the solar panel output a while back, and it is still 42k...

02:00 night-dawn: the brightness starts increasing from 14% 06:00 dawn-day: brightness stops increasing at 100% 18:00 day-dusk: brightness starts decreasing 22:00 dusk-night: brightness is now 14% Edit: yes, I know for sure that the mod shows the correct time and brightness level because the change...

I said that since you're using the same shore length for both 30 and 15 engines per row (assuming same # of engines), there's no actual point extending engines per row beyond 15. Getting it to 15 was to reduce wasting shore length (to 0 in fact, if a straight shore), not to make it longer per row. ...

Yes, I referred to that in my section about long 1-wide strips of land. Which still has nothing to do with 30 engine rows. I am using the same shore length for 30 as 15 engines on a row and I haven't seen you adress it really. I remember you saying that 50 green science was too high tech for using ...