Uh... rebalancers are always going suck when they use the same speed belts as what they're processing from and are restricted to a limited size. Well, traditional one sucks even if it's in full blue on yellow belt. It loses less throughput, but still can't keep up with the straight yellow belt. The...

I nominate this ugly bastard: http://i.imgur.com/6iBTweX.png (when you absolutely have to balance your belt evenly) It has 100% throughput http://i.imgur.com/CZNzbPD.png Variant: http://i.imgur.com/T6sZh3Y.png It has same 100% throughput as his ugly brother above, but more aesthetically pleasing. Us...

Well, rebalancing pattern is not so pretty if things are on the other side of the belt



So, the place for the perfect rebalancer is still vacant

And finally... 2 splitters, separate (the spacing in between is not necessary) Rebalancing pattern: http://i.imgur.com/cAzXjO2.png 1 side: http://i.imgur.com/PTuUWQy.png 2 sides: http://i.imgur.com/wG571Ll.png Rebalancing pattern is as good as of common rebalancer, but no throughput loss at all.

Can you do the bottom test again but with the belt rebalancer as 2 splitters therefore cutting out the U-bend on the one side.. I doubt much will change but I always wondered.. maybe make it a 4th lane so you can compare it separately.. Tested 2 more rebalancers: 1) "Overkill" http://i.im...

Lee_newsum wrote:
your test is invalid as the long of the beats is not the same

fist one 16 the oner one has 24

I measure relative throughput, thus the length does not matter.

See here for the follow-up

All-right, after doing some quick tests for the Faster belt corners thread I switched to other save and built proper test facility. We have 3 very long and 100% compressed belts. As soon as I power up the system, inserters start collect copper as fast as it arrives. Throughput is limited by the bott...

By the way, just noticed that common belt rebalanced causes BIG loss of compression. I didn't make tests, but by the looks of it ~30+% of the throughput is lost at the rebalancer.

Did some tests. Yellow belt with fast turns vs yellow split & rejoin. Competitiors: http://i.imgur.com/3fjjMcyl.jpg First run: 183:186 214:222 Split & rejoin wins. Test track http://imgur.com/1LpGKqd All inserters receive power at once and start packing coal as fast as it arrives. I cut powe...

According to the article, yellow belt with "fixed" corners still not as good as straight belt.

674-683 vs 719 respectively.
I wonder if splitting and rejoining after making the turn gives better or worse results.

I also shaked the head about putting copper cables on the belt. :) The lack in throughput for green circuits could be already seen in the last video... But well. I think he tries to think in categories of newbies: They like this "all on a belt"-idea. I see that a lot, they really like it....

The burden on the player for not understanding or noticing belt throughput being limited by corners is not huge. It's like, 10% at a guess? According to this calculator, corners steal 35% of your throughput. That means, if you have two lines of 9 steel furnaces each, feeding off the fully compresse...

chapium wrote:I still have no way of middle clicking while playing from a Macbook pro.

Download BetterTouchTool, it's free.

http://blog.boastr.net/downloads-second ... uchtool-2/

And that's what corners in belts actually mess up, causes the effective capacity of the belt to drop In other words, if belt is 100% loaded ("compressed"), it will deliver more items per second to the destination, if it has no bends. Let's call this number x . By the looks of it (just a r...

http://i.imgur.com/xPwoV1Hl.png The game would not load beyond this message, thus mod manager is inaccessible. I know how to disable mod manually, but for some less experienced player it could mean a whole lot of frustration, as the mod is embedded, and can't be deleted like any game-breaking third...

I was just about to make a new thread named 'Hive mind" with the same suggestion. There should be another pollution-like layer that adds pathfinding cost for biters. Whenever biter dies to turret fire, danger level of the tile rises (and slowly dissipates). It will make biters probe the whole p...

DaveMcW wrote:You can make it more compact.

Wow! Awesome design, thanks!

btw your inserters might steal things that are not quite intended for them. I ran into this issue in my early prototype, fixed it with additional spacing (perfect place for power pole btw)

Yep, just a nicer way to shift line 1 tile to the side without affecting the throughput

For my next playthrough I want something more challenging - to play in a persistent world. It means that the time would not stop when I'm not in the game, and my character will stay in the game world when I'm not "online". I will not be using save files (apart for the purpose of being able...

End result.
All 12 boxes on both sides of the track have equal amount of copper.



Top/bottom sides will come out of sync eventually when the ore patch start to deplete unevenly. Can be fixed using extra splitter to balance them.