What is the simplest player transporting system across the factory? A factory could be quite big, and a car is often not useful enough. I'm trying to plan some railway transporting system to have an ability to ride from one end of the factory to another. With several intermediate stops. Let's say th...

Actually, I could do with that limit for active/passive providers and wooden chests. Let requesters and steel chests have no limit by default. But it's still easier to turn the limit off then to set the limit. And yes -- "buffer" doesn't usually mean "a BIG buffer" (except for tr...

Hmm, my intention behind zero stacks was so that you can place chests next to live inserters and not have them automatically start placing things into the chest until you set the limit. Perhaps the option could be disabled, one stack, or zero stacks. It will make the player busy -- do we need that?...

Isn't that what the red X in the corner is for? click it, then click the second position, and oh look, you've just limited the chest to 1 slot. You should still be able to place items in there manually, but an inserter only fills it to the one slot. Yes, but _removing_ the limit is even easier, isn...

You could also use wood chests, or mod in a 'small iron chest' or something like that. Sure, "there is a mod for that" too (tm). I just like to play vanilla, and it's just an option not changing gameplay at all. I understand, that the devs have a lot of other problems to work anyway, but ...

TL;DR it would be good to have an option for all new-built chests to be limited by one stack. What I, personally, would like to have default space in chests limited by one stack, having a possibility to remove or change that limit, instead of having no limit having a possibility to put one. Why che...

Potentially problematic with belts branching, or with merging belt sections for sideloading. Personally, i'd appreciate an ability to bulk replace belts with an upgraded version (yellow-> red etc... isn't there a mod for that already?) but a bulk reverse? I don't really see where that could be usef...

kinda obvious, isn't it?
I mean, when you think about it

Why not? It's simple and useful. And nobody makes you use it, if you don't like it, right?

Wow! Actually interesting, and makes sense, IMHO.

TL;DR Highlight obstacles near the player. WHAT When I drive the car the lights from the car should reflect stronger on the vertical things like powerpoles, rocks, tubes, assembling machines, chests, enemy bases, tree trunks -- anything that I can crash into. :) Actually the same should happen when...

Roundabouts can cause trains to do such stuff if a train is forced to repath while in the middle of it. The fix was mentioned here actually decreased the frequency at which trains started a repath (older fix) and prevented a train from blocking itself signal-wise (newer one). So it is up to a playe...

Depends on the perspective. Directionally, it's actually 90°, but the train itself is turning a total of 450° --- there shouldn't be any real reason to say 270° except maybe say directionally how far around the roundabout to go which is pretty obscure. It's 360 at most. If you count from the starti...

If the train is too long to fit in the circle and makes an 270degree turn it bites itself in the ass. But why would you need a 270 degree turn instead of 90 degree in the opposite direction? That's the silly thing about roundabouts. Still don't understand. Why would you skip the turn before use it?...

steinio wrote:If the train is too long to fit in the circle and makes an 270degree turn it bites itself in the ass.

But why would you need a 270 degree turn instead of 90 degree in the opposite direction?

I still don't understand why this achievement is so strict. It could be limited by 200 crafts -- it won't change the game as much, but it would be much easier psychologically and still the same achievement, still the same gameplaying style. It's not like you're handcrafting a lot with a limit of 200.

I'd say it's just the beginning stage of the game that is too long. I already proposed to increase starting possessions -- like give several coal miners, at least one blue assembler (or even tier-3 assembler?), maybe few grenades against the forestation, maybe few dozens of green circuits and few hu...

Hi, Am I correct that train switches can only be used with mininmun two "spaces" between the tracks ? So that, in the picture below, I cannot get switches in the two left track layouts ? train_switch.JPG Well, in fact you can use two tracks without any space in-between. But to switch trac...

If you have a gear/green ciruit belt each, 1 iron/copper lane is sufficient. Are you sure? Any calculations? Just to be on the safe side I'd use 2 belts for Iron. All those belt productions, weaponry productions, etc., need quite a lot of iron, aren't they? And red circuits need copper. Gotta check...

One disadvantage is increased load for train system. You have to allocate path for 8 trains instead for example two 2-8 trains (two because speed is roughly half). At least you have to plan rail network very carefully and probably have more parallel tracks, large waiting railyards etc. You also los...