Hmm, replacing the chain signal with a normal signal SEEMS to have resolved the issue with trains occasionally stopping outside the queuing area despite there being open spots. I'll run the trains through the setup a while longer and we'll see....

Check this out - go to about 9:30 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YmtgGpbYac Now, Zisteau is using personal roboports to place the turrets but that isn't necessary -- just convenient. Even with the crazy increased alien settings Zisteau has used, turret creep works. Granted, he is us...

How did the turret creep fail? Even at full evolution that method is pretty tried and true....

Yeah, this design is totally over-engineered. It is intended for a single ore. My current setup is the unloading spot with room for a single train queued behind it -- basically I'm just trying to add in the queuing. Even if I take on the goal I was considering which got me thinking about this expans...

Well, that is disappointing to hear, although not entirely surprising. I starting running a bunch of trains through this setup with short timers to see if I could figure out a pattern. It definitely is not a FIFO operation. But, despite enough traffic where one row could sit idle while the other two...

I was working on a new ore off loading station for one of my factories and was thinking about how ore deposits are going to be further and further away. Meaning it will take longer for the trains to do round trips, meaning I'll need more trains, meaning I should probably have some type of ability to...

Yeah, I wasn't worried 25 million plate production was needed -- only interested in what it took to get it.

aka13 wrote: I think I am slowly getting the production to where I want it

Wow.. 25 million copper plates. Even at the 1 ore to 5 plate, how many separate copper outposts were necessary for that?

Well, it doesn't create pollution and placing any created item reduces base generation possibilities. You could probably create a simple one like this where you don't particularly feel threatened. And then another with walls and turrets in more dangerous situations. Laser turrets probably pull too m...

Cool. Was hoping that was the situation, but figured I should verify. Thanks.

Does this mod have a requirement to use Bob's mods? When I look at the mod within the loading menu it seems to indicate that...

Actually, double checking myself.... I was looking at the ratio backwards -- wasn't I? It's .84 accumulators to panels. I have .75, so I actually have a slightly low ratio. D'OH! Anyway, this ratio works well for the application.

The image is also available here: http://imgur.com/6n3yEzD

I'm sure I can't be the first to work on this issue. I looked around and found a post from 2014 where the poster was supporting three radars. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3925 This is what I came up with: radar station.jpg This 30 MJ capacity set up runs down to about 400 kJ b...

Seeing as the inserter will wait for a "full load" before acting it seems "Bulk Inserter" would seem more appropriate than "Rapid Inserter" (as already suggested by others). As far as the removal of the bonus from other inserters... not sure how I feel about that. I'll ...

Figured this out. Yes, I was being stupid. *sigh*

For anyone who wants a slightly longer reach without being insanely OP, the default value is 6. Actually, I would like to adjust this so I can't reach all the way across the map, which seems a little "cheaty". I just wanted to be able to reach a little further than the default -- maybe sa...

I'm pretty new to the game and playing "vanilla", but the first time I saw a LPer using this I immediately went and got it. I'd have to say this was my #1 complaint about the game so far. I couldn't seem to go more than a couple of minutes without getting beeped at for being out of range. ...

Watched it too and that annoyed the hell out of me. I honestly like his series but that makes it look like he's one of those people who don't even pause to consider a mistake on their own part before assuming they found a bug. Especially the “I guess nobody else has done X before” part… In Zisteau'...