Mostly just doing it for fun. Some people try bases where they mostly use bots, or mostly use trains, etc. I've just taking a liking to burner inserters of late, and trying to see if I can come up with some "good" furnace layouts, or "good" science builds using only burners has ...

It's potentially a design problem basically - resources genration works in certain way since it needs to be deterministic. Since existence of resource depends directly on x/y coordinates of tile moving resources areound to avoid water is not feasible. Unless you have some kind of hardware encryptio...

Well, the game *does* have an evolution factor. There's your plausibility reason. They call it evolution internally, but otherwise I'd never get the impression that pollution is causing impossibly rapid, (successful) global evolution. Rather, that pollution's upset of local balance is agitating the...

What else might be useful is the abillity to have a circuit network connection, so that you can attach a connection between an accumulator, and your steam engines, so that they only kick online during low power situations. Can't steam power be already regulated this way by an electric pump? (never ...

I have a compact steam setup too, I put it in Patric's thread. It's all small poles, yellow belts, yellow splitters, yellow inserters, and I think slightly smaller, but lacks the tanks on the end.
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This is my compact one, low tech (only small power poles, yellow belts and splitters), only two pipe gaps in each row of engines, and I think a single yellow belt should be able to support 10 rows (100 engines), so no need to use red belts. There is no need for space between rows, it tiles upward as...

So, are they disappearing? Or truly being compressed? First is bad, second is awesome.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying, why the quote? Update, I'm really, really slow with my analysis and math stuff... but, basically, if you build a steam array, then you were to transition to panels... you'd start by adding panels and accumulators in the normal ratio, as-needed to meet increasin...

I'm not going to argue with the ultimate conclusion because I'm in no place to test it, but this reasoning for it to be the case is definitely not correct. If this reasoning were correct, there would be no one correct ratio as your total average power draw increases. You are correct, in that withou...

Hi, I edited this to work in 12.30. New contents of control.lua: require "defines" Alyx_StartOutPlanning = function(player) player.force.technologies["automated-construction"].researched = true player.insert{name="blueprint",count=1} player.insert{name="deconstruct...

WHile I think the exploit is kind of silly and shouldn't be considered since it has to be done manually and can only be done with cheap intermediate products (could also make an exception for purple science), the exploit doesn't need 100% productivity. Consider the two cases: A) Player A has 4 L3 p...

You should be able to research at an arbitrary speed, that's in the theme of automation. The more resources and labs you have, the faster it gets done, and I like that. I think many of the complaints about research could be eased merely by allowing us a research queue, to line up tasks all at once, ...

This type of discussion is comming every 2-3 month. My answer is simple: Change the solar input in a way, that it is more random. In the moment you do that Solar Panels are no no-brainer anymore. You need to calculate: Will the next solar eclipse be so big, that I come through with my solar power? ...

(I made an accidental double post, the next one is the right one!)

Living forests don't burn down very easily, since they're wet. But if you get a really, really hot, persistent fire going, the heat can boil away all the water in nearby trees, turning them into viable fuel. If enough catch, and weather conditions are right, it can create a firestorm that dries more...

The primary things that obsolete gun turrets is the climbing biter resistance to physical damage, and the limited range against spitters. Laser turrets have the damage type for biters, and the range for spitters, so it's better at both. And, laser turrets have more health, so they're suitable for th...

I can't really see how this could affect anyone in game. Its kind of like a millionaire complaining about a dropped fake penny. Maybe if you try building the airplane in an assembler and cancel? It probably manifests the most for new players, who might pick up and move assemblers a bunch. That was ...

The productivity exploit maybe works like this: Create enough of the recipe items to almost fill the 'extra' item bar. During the cycle that the 'extra' bar completes, disassemble the machine AFTER the extra item is done, but before the 'regular' item is done. You get the material back for the regu...

sckuzzle wrote:I've managed to find one use for burner inserters: backup power.

I was thinking just about the early game. Even when I switch a large steam array to backup (I have a combinator setup), I still use normal ones. (It works without combinators too, they just make it more robust.)

I'm kind of interested in how others use burner inserters in the early game, and why. One of my first priorities is getting a steam engine going for orange inserters and assemblers. edit: I guess, they're nice because they can fuel themselves with coal. But, routing coal or ore is harder than small ...