My initial instinct would say underestimate at 0.4ish coal/sec and I'd use that to guess 100 ish to fill a blue belt because a little overkill never hurts. Productivity research is 2% boost per level with no speed cost prod 3 modules are 10% productivity for a speed reduction of 15% each Base speed ...

I use/love bottleneck and logistics bottleneck to do that

Also how do you tint outputs when there's no defined outputs on assemblers, yes there is for fluid things but any inserter in any position might be the input or output

Am I missing something here? The crafting speed after accounting for all modifiers -- beacons, modules, research, whatnot -- is already shown, isn't it? The input rate is crafting speed / recipe time * ingredient items and the output rate is crafting speed / recipe time * productivity multiplier * ...

I'm not sure, in some ways I would find this useful in other ways it breaks the puzzle aspect by just giving the numbers. right now I don't worry too much about perfect setups if it's obvious I do accurate ratios if it's not I overkill the inputs. Yes there are people who want everything perfect and...

If statements by definition involve jump commands which clear the fetch execute cycle and add an extra memory interaction as well as cycles but in most cases a few cycles is more than 1 memory interaction (i think). It might be negligible but it's also antithetical to code optimization that has been...

Isn't it just part of the puzzle to have it snap to the 2x2 grid rather than the 1x1? What are the knock on effects to things like stations and signalling? Does rail have to become a 2x1 item in order to line up with curves?

Yes detecting to so something different at 0<x<0.5 to do something different there rather than at any other time adds clock cycles for every tank and fluid wagon on the map every tick vs being consistent everywhere and taking fewer cycles. So one way or the other it has to be and ceiling function vs...

I don't think the robots should mine faster than the human. Just for mechanic reasons. This is a game about automation, so you should assign a task (deforestation) and if it takes too long to do, well automate more bot production. If you need to take out a thousand trees, it'll take 2 seconds if yo...

EXCEPT: try to design a station where you unload one fluid and load a different fluid in the same train. E.g. a train with water comes in, you pump it empty and then you pump in steam instead. Not impossible but the logic gets a lot more complex and you need 4 tanks instead of 3. so long as there w...

I'm thinking what is the most efficient way to process all the ghosts which change state, not all lists. How do you know if a ghost has changed state? you run some code to check it. Using the lists you can bulk check ghosts by looking at each list but it's literally magic to know if a ghost's state ...

I think this is a balancing issue, but my 2 cents is robots could easily be considered stronger than the player by at least an order of magnitude or 2 so if it takes 10 seconds for the player to do with the best tool it could take anything from a few ticks to a whole second and given that the player...

Checking for 0 or <squid amount is pretty much the same. Only difference is in loading the constant to compare the tank/pipes current fill level with. But on the note of squishing: I would love to have pushing instead. Say you have a pipe 10 pieces long filled with left over water. Now you connect ...

That depends on what the lists are for. As I see it you do not do any work on the lists, they are just there to organize the ghosts. You do work on the ghosts (and players heaps). So the work per tick is defined by how many ghosts / players you handle each tick. Not on how many lists there are. And...

okay I'm gonna go try nougat right now I have a tonne of ore under my mega base that I've just plowed over it'd be cool to recover some of it for free ^_^ (and it'll save me setting up mining outposts for a little while)

I think what you really want is a SimCity (original) style Natural disaster button that randomly makes some sort of disaster that you have to deal with (Mod territory I think)

Aren't floor operations faster (if you're taking it that far) because it's a truncate command (0 all digits) after a point. So a ceiling is a floor +1 as much as round is floor +0.5 Again you check the pipes anyway as part of the flow operations because pipes will push fluids when mixed based on pre...

Wouldn't the chance of one happening always be 1/1,000,000 like IRL the major nuclear disasters didn't have warnings. Also why? I mean who would benefit from their power exploding, it'd be a pain to fix, you'd power down the factory preventing fixes and disabling defences and to most be considered a...

It's not particularly computationally expensive to do either, rounding, floor and ceiling are all built in functions and I'd guess all about the same cost give or take a cycle so I can see that being an argument but to use one rather than another near zero is an if statement which relatively speakin...

Why not bind shoot to mouse button 3/4/5 which are commonly on most mice now (scroll click/back/forward)

Personally I bind my picker tool (eyedropper) to mouse button 3 (middle/scroll click) cause it's a tonne more intuitive to pick and place with one hand but you could easily use it as your trigger

Nope I get why you made the thread I'm saying you can't be so dismissive of other people's points because they are just as pedantic/valid as your own. "There is a simple solution use it" is not a valid argument unless it goes along with "you're trivializing part of the puzzle". R...