There's simply no way anyone will ever exploit the entire map. You'll run out of rig long, *long* before you run out of resources. I forget how far out you have to go to get 1G patches, but there's vastly more of those than there are 100M patches, vastly more of those than 10M patches, and that's no...

I think the best benchmark would be headless Factorio on Linux with no GUI and all unnecessary processes turned off. For example Arch linux or Ubuntu server is pretty close to that out of the box. Yah, this one. a linode running arch gets to just about the minimal set of overhead processes if anybo...

I still have mental videoclips from my first game, figuring out belt-lane interactions and the eye-widening realization of how deep the automation rabbit hole might eventually go. That little 'hunh" moment when I noticed offshore pumps didn't need power. The little hand-mining-optimization mini...

Yes. You might have seen video tutorials made before the 0.16.16? rework. Splitters originally alternated output belt by input item type, within some constraints, then in 0.16.something it was switched to alternating output belt by input item lane, within some much simpler constraints. The original ...

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Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:55 pm

Let's hope you are right, and that it is an unintentional oversight of some sort.

Let's also hope the official statement is made soon. There is a real shitstorm gathering in the steam discussion right now.

Please don't feed the trolls.

I'd really like it if Factorio had a command-line option to dump metadata about save files, like the mods & versions list, the current tick, the last non-autosave file the map was saved to, maybe list of known players, whatever. Mostly for me the mod list, because a modpack mismatch is always un...

But the "writing a solution yourself" option is in the install dir after doing `git init; git add .; git commit -m asabove` once there.

[snip]"you can do this yourself by just manually building a table blah blah blah" as if that's the solution (vs getting the request pushed through). That is the solution. It's like five lines of code you run in control.lua, once when the game starts up. Takes much less than 10ms (two, on ...

You can easily do this yourself, run the prototypes you care about and build a plain lua table keying off the name. `type` in the entity prototypes is an attribute value the created entity will have, it's not anything to do with the prototype itself. mystuff={} empty={} for k,v in pairs(game.get_fil...

I take .bmp screenshots and convert them to whatever I want in a background process watching for new snaps. Works great, and the devs don't have to implement an api with every image-processing option and format everybody could ever want because that work's already been done.

that's a cool speedometer design too, mind if I use that? Please do. I always thought the idea of posting designs on forums was to share them, always happy to see others like the stuff I like too. The only ways I've found around this problem are either i) don't accelerate the train very fast, so it...

Or train accelerators, where you loop a train around until it reaches full speed before sending it off into ... wherever. Biter territory, a high-speed "freeway" track, etc. Without the ability to reroute a train by closing a yellow signal, both of those are either outright impossible, or...

Programming the rules of Go with combinators looks like a very fun and difficult challenge. Heh. I'd guess you could keep the game as a memory buffer of zobrist hashes for ko detection, do superko and forbid repeats ever? One array for the move history, a second array carrying four liberty-for-grou...

But map seeds are saved. Couldn't this have been (and couldn't it still be) fixed by marking map seeds and having the code use the old noise for the unmarked ones?

Constant boxes don't need power. I know, but having power doesn't make them dysfunctional either. Moreover, the pole isn't even connected to electricity (but the area actually is in range of a Creative Mod super substation). :-) I've just plopped down the combinator where it seemed convenient, not ...

Constant boxes don't need power.

No, global variable names in your code are looked up in that table, and one of the global variable names is `_G`, whose value is self-referentially that table. So after `_G['howd'..'y']='hoo'..'hah!'` you can `print(howdy)`. By the way, this is your opportunity to produce really horrible code. Do it...

If you *really* want the suffixes pasted on the end like that, global variables are in a table named `_G`.

Try this one? 0eNq0ndGSJbeNbf+ln0s3EgABkPMrNxwTslS2O6LdrWm1FNfh8L/fc6qrq8pWMolFjeZhPGOldpIECWYdcmH/892fP/zy+NPn9x+/vPuvf757/8Onjz+/+6//+893P7//68fvP9z/uy//+Onx3X+9e//l8e/vHt59/P7v9//v4y8/fHj8/vN3nx+//+HLp8/v/vXw7v3HHx//37v/kn89LP/tD5/++v7nL+9/+O7zpz9/+vLmX9Z//enh3ePHL++/vH/82o6n/+cf//3xl7//+fHzTf1F4...

i tried to have a closer look to understand what makes which build more UPS friendly. but i can't find an obvious reason. the second most ups friendly version (Nilaus - Megabase in a book) has more (or equal) of everything but is way more UPS friendly than my design. i don't get it. i'm actually cu...