TL;DR You can place power poles at perfect spacing while running. This behavior should be extended to power pole ghosts. What ? If you are placing power poles and hold down the mouse button while running, they will automatically be placed in a nice line at perfect spacing. But, if you try the same ...

If you're relatively quick with getting blue science set up as soon as you finish your first refinery, you can place 1-2 tanks for light and heavy oil and have cracking researched long before they fill up.

Electric furnaces, because with nuclear, power is free.

WTF blue/black/purple 20 hours Lol yup that sounds about right ;) Except really, you need gold as well! The different science packs were intended to give you freedom to move in different directions (military vs production vs high tech), to allow more choice. But I don't think it quite worked out th...

Couldn't you just use active providers to "push" the items into the filtered storage chests? No, because if all your items wind up in unfiltered storage chests there is nothing motivating them to move into the filtered slots that you intend to use as buffers. Even if filtered slots have h...

Now we only need a way to make sure the bots fly sensible routes, without passing over things like power backout zones, or behemoth spitter nests ;-) This. PLEASE!!! :) I've always wondered what the "logistic area" and "build area" of a roboport actually mean physically, since b...

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how the buffer chests would be better than adding filters to storage chests. The buffer chest looks to me like a storage chest with filters, and I can't seem to tell the difference between the two . Could someone please enlighten me? But I do agree the concept of a filt...

Yay! Much appreciated :) Will bots deliver extra parts from deconstruction orders into buffers above the number of items requested? Or will those always go straight to storage? I'm wondering if these can be used to solve the old problem of when you want to recycle many of your yellow (or red) belts ...

My new preferred strategy is to have a blueprint with a complete station on it - miners, station, and intersection w/ the main track. That way I literally just place the blueprint on top of the ore patch, then route the main train line to the intersection. I have a couple of variants (1 station or 2...

Yeah, it doesn't stay interesting forever... but 100 hrs is longer than almost any other game I've played

I know that each imput needs to be able to reach each output, so whats the point of doing it like the one on the right when the one on the left is smaller and uses less splitters? I think you've touched on the fundamental pointlessness of balancing ;) TL:DR - Balancers, as defined by the community,...

In my last game (vanilla), I have a modular armor with 2 roboports, night vision, 2 batteries (for night) and 9 PSP. Well I have come to a point that I try to catch as many bots as I can before they come back recharging to be able to sustain decent power level in my armor. This totally works in van...

Point was that it is 1-rail system but there are no bypasses, no traffic jams, no deadlocks. You can argue that it is a 2-rail system with the 2 rails spread apart so the whole thing forms a big circle and you are right. You can think of it that way. It is the same as a 2-rail system where you can ...

Yeah I specifically avoided mentioning color blindness since I'm not an expert on it and I know there are already color-blind friendly mods. I think reducing the clutter is relevant whether you have trouble seeing colors or not (to my knowledge, I have no color disability).

Ok, maybe "Kilobase" would be a better term ;) Is there an agreed upon threshold for "Megabase"? I used to kinda think of it as 1 rocket per minute, which is about 2x what you need for 10 science/sec but requires a similar base size because of the other science packs. I'd conside...

But what if we could domesticate aliens? Instead of killing them capture them. Put them to work in factories or power generation. Wouldn't it be just cool to have a big hamster wheel with a biter running in it to make it spin? :) Interesting thought, but I worry about the biter's health. Guinea pig...

Yes, it is not (yet) a deadlock. As soon as one train is empty it will leave and the traffic jam will be cleared. But now all your traffic is blocked behind the ore train and moves at the speed you unload and consume ore. This will be painfully slow but might work for a time. Then eventually you ru...

for a simple example, if you have 4 ore trains and only 3 ore offloading stations, if 3 of them are at the offloading stations and the fourth tries to get there, it's an immediate permanent roadblock once it enters the section of track leading to those offload points.... unless you compromise on de...

Network: "a group or system of interconnected people or things" The word "network" makes no assumptions about the number of interconnected things, or their density... so I'm not sure I follow your logic. Also, I'm sorry if I missed a post where you explained your assumptions, bu...

I wonder if the problem would be somewhat mitigated if roboport ranges actually were defined by the range a robot can travel on a single charge - which is much farther than roboport connection range. It has always bothered me that roboport range is arbitrary and does not make sense with behavior you...