I think your method for measuring throughput is correct, but i think your method to estimate the max throughput is not. I think you're right, leaving off the signal spacing made the numbers not good, here's a fixed version that shows how much space each train needs empty to maintain its current spe...

Measuring actual performance is a little hard because you can't get braking distance directly and there's signal block lengths, but as a way of validating models I thought I'd measure throughput as directly as possible. So I put a train on a long oval loop with waypoints at the end of each straighta...

Testing tells me two things: a rocket-fueled 1-12 can reach the top 1.38m/tick speed (pretty sure a 1-14 would get there eventually but I'm not that patient) and adding or subtracting cargo wagons has basically no impact on braking distance, you can see that by getting a 1-12 train up to speed, turn...

On a straight track with constant signal spacing, with identical trains as close to each other as can be (train -> braking distance -> signal block length -> train), and assuming trains move at a constant speed, this graph on desmos should show how throughput varies with speed. Train throughput gra...

If braking speed is a parameter then time to stop is top speed / braking speed and braking distance is ½topspeed*timetostop, that's the minimum tail-to-nose distance so minimum (and max-throughput) nose-to-nose distance is braking distance plus train length, wagons and locomotives are conveniently 7...

I can't be the only one hoping Factorio 1's last patch is 1.1.111, "I am eleventy-one today!"

5600x3d, 16gb@3200, 6650xt, 47fps zoomed in, 43 zoomed out.

for some reasons the "factorio" prefers to use the hard coded path, instead of reading first the mentioned by others in this topic config file No, it doesn't. If you didn't tell it which config file to use it looks in the install directory for the config-path.cfg file that gives the rules...

Just use the website version, it doesn't daemonize itself, it gets you real console access, you can script it for benchmarking la la.

Loving pretty much all of this.

Any chance of restoring the shift-rclick clearing of quickbar/inventory blueprints? The scrolling through recent copy/pastes is nice but it's as if selecting anything overwrote your clipboard, that'd get annoying fast if it wasn't what everyone was used to.

So "fast save without pause" is hardly achievable in current game design, due to large amount of data, that has to be copied, from current game data state, until next tick is going to be calculated. And there is no easy solution, if any at all, as I understand it. That's probably a featur...

Set your interface preference for train visualization length, then use the white outlines to tell you exactly how far from the exit to place the second signal.

haha look again.

Well, the way science works is, you're trying to construct a model, math when you can get it, that behaves the same way as some part of reality, then you see how the model behaves in situations you haven't encountered and either construct those situations or wait for them to happen IRL, and see if h...

Here's my no-buffer startup bp, I do nuclear late so it uses beacons and S3's but you can take out the beacons and modules, the circuitry works regardless. It's doing signed-overflow bias on the '235 filters, the rounded 2.1G constant is 40 less than the maximum 32-bit signed int, 40 more wraps it t...

The problem is not the ping, the problem is your friend's cpu has about one third the minimum-spec performance. The response time's as bad as it is because your friend's rig can't keep up in a multiplayer environment. All clients and the server are running the full sim, and in multiplayer they're re...

#literallyunplayable

Yup, gonna press "play" again, not sorry neither: implementing my suggestion for a startup option to print save file metadata would let people easily write their own automatic save-file organizers.

Aftertaste now very substantially worse than meh.

The list is in the install directory under data/core/backers.json