Does it "matter"? All depends on the context -- but yeah, in 99.9% of contexts it is meaningless. However it annoys the heck out of me to see one chest full when the other is only half full.

In my main base I have a large copper smelting array which has two train station inputs, and two station outputs. Here is a screenshot of the stations: inserter behavior.jpg The station works reasonably well, but there is an oddity which I have a guess for, but I'd like a confirmation. The plate hol...

As you get further along you'll probably need to try to envision the entire thing needed before you start placing assembly machines, but for now there no need to worry about it that much.

Half the game is "re-doing" things.

For a first game, that is very organized. My first science setup was no where close to looking that good.

Yeah, but if he is working toward production science, he probably doesn't have the high tech science required for Artillery.

Lasers really should be enough. Walk up as close as you can without drawing their attention, then place a sub-station as close as you can towards them, then slap down a bunch of laser turrets. Repeat. It is even easier when you have construction bots and blueprints...

Cool. I'm sure space science is just around the corner!

You start producing all the science packs, do all the research, that should keep you occupied for a bit longer...

Yeah, in Vanilla or minimally modded that is plenty. When you go full Bob's and Angel's... that might not be enough. Although with Angel's early bots you can pretty much skip the bus and go straight to a bot based base. Which with the extra complexity works out better anyway...

You have played 47 hours and you are worried about rebuilding? That's half the game if you ask me -- rebuilding stuff better/more efficient. When using a main bus design, you can make it easier to expand by only putting assemblers on one side of the bus. That way the bus can always be expanded. Lase...

It helps to off-site green and red circuits. You need so many that the area needed to produce them needs it's own feeder bus. Here is a screen shot of just my green circuit area:

Well, I have seen a setup with a constant combinator, you set an item in it and it causes all the inserters to be set to that item. Would that be sufficient?

Don't worry about doing everything. Just pick a project, say like making green science, and then work towards it. You can't start out saying, "I'm going to launch a rocket." There is a lot of stuff to learn, it is going to take some time. And most everything you learn, you'll learn later i...

It is some version of autocad.

Just breathe Don Quixote, breathe...

We don't print essays in landscape out of tradition/habit. It has nothing to do with the potential of long lines of text. If you say so. I doubt anyone's given it much thought. Oh wait https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ749012 Well, if that article is accurate: 1) I guess I am a reading freak 2) I guess the...

Well, a single refinery uses 20 oil/sec, you have at least one other refinery on the same source, so at least 40 oil/sec. If you put tank holding oil in front of the refineries it would be easy to tell if you had sufficient oil input.

Perhaps the productions slows because of insufficient oil? The setup you showed the refinery should work non stop until the Petroleum gas builds up.

I prefer the fixed width. Your typical 16:9 monitor is far too wide for lines of text. That shizzle is why we don't print essays out in landscape orientation. We don't print essays in landscape out of tradition/habit. It has nothing to do with the potential of long lines of text. Ideally, this woul...

I couldn't, but someone might be able do this using some constant combinators. It would be seriously complicated. What are you attempting to achieve? I'm guessing this might be resolved with a requester chest requesting wood and coal, and then two inserters with conditional setups to a second chest....