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by AutoMcD
Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:09 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Just had to wiki the chain signals AGAIN
Replies: 16
Views: 8233

Just had to wiki the chain signals AGAIN

I always seem to have to spend time troubleshooting my rail networks. And they are usually very simple compared to what I see posted around here. After hundreds of hours it occurred to me that I've never used the chain signals, and didn't even remember what they are supposed to do. I think the GUI r...
by AutoMcD
Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:56 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: The personal laser defense
Replies: 33
Views: 17760

Re: The personal laser defense

Old thread but still... Why is this thing not scaling with laser turret damage and shooting speed? Could be balanced that way? This thing is just completely useless in late game vs behemoths. Can't with the current system, most of the laser equipment is hard-coded. From what I can tell it looks up ...
by AutoMcD
Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:27 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense
Replies: 40
Views: 20880

Re: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense

Oh.. I should be able to fix this via updating the locale file then. Thanks
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:28 pm
Forum: Railway Setups
Topic: The golden train that doesn't know when to quit.
Replies: 7
Views: 6709

Re: The golden train that doesn't know when to quit.

came for the golden train, stayed for the fish-go-round
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:17 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense
Replies: 40
Views: 20880

Re: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense

I'm getting a strange thing when I test. Unknown key error. Normally I'd look past it but there's duplicate parts with different keys showing up: http://i.imgur.com/V6EcP8B.jpg This gun gobbles up ammo and works properly. http://i.imgur.com/7DABwkF.jpg This gun does not. The gun that works, does ind...
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:14 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Lazy bastard mining speed
Replies: 11
Views: 6329

Re: Lazy bastard mining speed

I did it in 104. Had a few extra drills, it really speeds things up at the start.
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:19 pm
Forum: Show your Creations
Topic: Let's see your clever builds
Replies: 496
Views: 573206

Re: Let's see your clever builds

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How to empty a full car full of ore in a 5 second stop.
And in this case, transfer it to another train.
by AutoMcD
Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:51 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Is blue belt worth the cost in resources?
Replies: 19
Views: 15967

Re: Is blue belt worth the cost in resources?

I made a compact base. After things have upgraded enough, it was necessary to increase belt speed. It's worth it to me because they are automatically produced at this stage, makes no difference red vs blue if I'm just grabbing from a chest.. It saves me from rearranging the whole base.
by AutoMcD
Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:46 pm
Forum: Show your Creations
Topic: Let's see your clever builds
Replies: 496
Views: 573206

Re: Let's see your clever builds

Why mixing ore?
by AutoMcD
Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:13 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense
Replies: 40
Views: 20880

Re: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense

Nice. :D
I should be able to test it out and get things updated this weekend.
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:31 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: movement_bonus into other equipment type?
Replies: 11
Views: 4192

Re: movement_bonus into other equipment type?

Why not make two items and have control.lua remove/add the other half, one being movement equipment and the other whatever you need? If you wanted to make it seamless you would need 3 items, though. A placement item, which gets converted into 2 items that look like one. Basically you would insert f...
by AutoMcD
Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:25 pm
Forum: Combinator Creations
Topic: Slow Supplier (used for repair pack distribution)
Replies: 19
Views: 11830

Re: Slow Supplier (used for repair pack distribution)

It's about conservation. Having more than 10 of these at any station is wasteful.
Repair packs are cheap enough, I don't mind making full stacks. But 4 stacks? They will just sit there. The bots are expensive enough I wouldn't want stacks of them at every port.
by AutoMcD
Sun Aug 28, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.14.0
Replies: 58
Views: 63630

Re: Version 0.14.0

so i don't see grid on tank. do I have to rebuild it or is this mod only? did anyone slam out a simple mod for this yet? Just spent about 10 minutes poking around and I feel than I'm missing something here.
edit:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Lejving/Grid

found this
by AutoMcD
Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:33 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense
Replies: 40
Views: 20880

Re: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense

Mod has been updated for Factorio 0.14. Special thanks to David Merillat! :mrgreen:
Inreased gun cooldown from 2 to 3, seemed like it was shooting too fast. It's still faster than rifle by a bit.
by AutoMcD
Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday facts #153 - 0.13 Stable, 0.14 Experimental
Replies: 98
Views: 50175

Re: Friday facts #153 - 0.13 Stable, 0.14 Experimental

Some of these ideas I've wanted to try making already but did not get very far because of the hard-coded nature of equipment behavior. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=28880 My personal defense gun is pretty nice, though getting the ammo to work was quite a hack and it still show...
by AutoMcD
Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: movement_bonus into other equipment type?
Replies: 11
Views: 4192

Re: movement_bonus into other equipment type?

With the changes in 0.14 that just hit, do you guys think this is possible now?
by AutoMcD
Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:44 pm
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense
Replies: 40
Views: 20880

Re: [MOD 0.13.x] Advanced Personal Defense

.14 is out. Modding Added support for equipment grids in cars, tanks, locomotives, and cargo wagons. Changed equipment grids to work as protoypes: defined and referenced by things that use them. Changed equipment and equipment grids to have categories that define what equipment can go in what equipm...
by AutoMcD
Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:43 pm
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 0.14.0
Replies: 58
Views: 63630

Re: Version 0.14.0

Modding Added support for equipment grids in cars, tanks, locomotives, and cargo wagons. Changed equipment grids to work as protoypes: defined and referenced by things that use them. Changed equipment and equipment grids to have categories that define what equipment can go in what equipment grid. S...
by AutoMcD
Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:31 am
Forum: Combinator Creations
Topic: Slow Supplier (used for repair pack distribution)
Replies: 19
Views: 11830

Re: Slow Supplier (used for repair pack distribution)

Fair enough. :) Actually a small correction, it appears I always use the 1 stack of repair packs in a provider chest because I can't seem to get the circuit thing to work right when feeding the roboport. But using the bot count on the port does work to keep only a few bots in there. But if you forge...
by AutoMcD
Thu Aug 25, 2016 6:52 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: 90 degree 4-belt merge
Replies: 17
Views: 26462

Re: 90 degree 4-belt merge

PyroFire wrote:Nailed it
Nice work on those!

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