I have a pretty big base, so building anything from scratch takes a good 20-30 minutes. So, I build more ore miners when I'm waiting for stuff to be built. I generally don't know what the next bottleneck will be after I fix the current one, so building ore stations (and nuclear power) fits into the ...

astroshak wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:29 pm overproduction.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what this is.

Deconstructing is super super easy, so I really like to build bigger nearby (almost always, further out), and I take the center apart chunk by chunk. There's really no reason to restart unless you want to. You don't have to do anything unless you want to in this game, in fact.

Thanks for chiming in to clear that up, Rseding91! It looks like I just need to make more stuff faster...

I hate to say it, but this is my bottleneck now. I would love it if I could put a lot of my bots to work!

I don't really think about this as a combat game, so I don't know why you'd play multiplayer combat. If you play with no mods, at some point relatively soon after you launch a rocket, the biters aren't even a consideration any more. Are you just doing "combat" with some mod that turns Factorio into ...

I'm amazed at how this game keeps growing with me. At every level, there are new challenges to be had. I'm at what most people would call a "mega base" (no mods), and I was worried that the game would become boring soon. But no, even now, there are new problems to solve, new engineering challenges ...

I have the grid already built (rails, power, roboports, radar, etc.). This problem happens when I'm plunking down individual factory units as I need them. My megabase is a huge grid, and when I hit say, a bottleneck for Fe Plates, then I'll plunk down a few more Fe Plate factories. I'm not sure how ...

... and now the factory is bigger, and this performance issue is causing a bigger problem.

When I ask my bots to build something, this issue occurs while they're building. Since I have a massive bot network, things take a very long time to build after I plop down the plans. A factory unit generally ...

Another update: I've since made my factory much bigger, and I can confirm that this issue happens whenever there are more than a few "No Path" trains. Performance is fine when there aren't any "No Path" trains.
It's not really a huge deal, as far as I'm concerned.

Apparently, I didn't need to build ...

When I spent a little more time with this game to remind myself what I was doing at the time...

Yes, aka13 was right... I had just slapped down a few blueprints and my bots are building tracks and stations for me. Some of the no path trains were due to stuff being built, but most of them are ...

I didn't remember where I was when I stopped playing, honestly. I had to stop playing when this started happening about 3-4 months ago, and I only fired it up again when I got my new computer the other day. I could fix the trains, but A. It's going to be extremely tedious (and not fun) with the game ...

Nope, none. They're all happy.

I was running a generic Intel i7 something on a laptop with 64 GB RAM. Single player. No mods. Game started stuttering.

Built a brand new computer with AMD 7800X3D, 64 GB RAM, high end video card, blah blah. Game still stutters.

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This ...

So it looks like the answer is , "Yes, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D should be the best CPU available today for Factorio in most situations."

Thank you fellow People of the Internet!

The 7800X3D releases in two weeks! Where does somebody buy a CPU (and a motherboard to go with it)? I've never had to build a computer before, but..... the Factory Must Grow!!!

BlueTemplar: That didn't help me, unfortunately.

mmmPI: That mod looks crazy. I'm scared to install it!

I think the best thing to do in this situation is just to get a new CPU.

Am I correct in assuming this is the best CPU available today to run Factorio?

From what I've been able to put together, it seems that the CPU cache is the bottleneck for Factorio, and the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D has the largest on-chip cache on the market right now:
Total L1 Cache: 1MB
Total L2 Cache ...

I read the "how to make a report" post, and enabled my UPS. My UPS is in the 45-50 range, so I think I just need a faster CPU, according to that post.