One is an actual DisplayPort (VESA Adaptive Sync) and HDMI-Standard (HDMI 2.1 VRR) and for free; one is a closed-down proprierary walled-garden implementation that costs on top for both monitor and graphics card. One is royalty-free, the other puts $100 markup on your purchase. And so one gains tra...

Just because you have a lot of RAM available, doens't mean you can be sloppy with RAM usage. Because that would mean huge memory bandwidth and compared to CPU power it's been getting worse and worse since the 70s. The memory was given name "random access" to accentuate the fact that you di...

Try using clay or playdoh or something. Just add and remove chunks of clay until it looks right. Then it's pretty easy to translate that to 2d or 3d, compared to making it up from scratch digitally. Also, perfection is a pretty high mark. Sometimes you just got to say "eh, that'll have to do&q...

I scribble in paintshop pro. 3D only would mean I wouldn't mod it. There would be no bob's mods in a 3D factorio. Nothing's stopping you from scribbling in Sketchup 3D. And pretty much all CAD software out there has architecture design tools and can export 3d models. Besides, 3d modelling is easy. ...

Is that with depth-testing enabled? If so, discard in fragment shader disables Early-Z test. It's in "2d mode", so "standard" settings: blending enabled, depth buffer (& testing) disabled. Put otherwise, it's a default rendering mode in Love2D engine - if that tells you anyt...

Discard operation was introduced to do alpha testing in 3d graphics. This allowed you to render your transparent-textured geometry with no blending whatsoever (so that you could utilize the depth buffer) and use the texel alpha value to test against some other value (such as 0.5), and use "dis...

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-264 Discard operation doesn't improves performance, just tells the driver not to write anything to the output buffer. The reason is that the GPUs use vector processors, the entire GPU core must execute the same operation on all the pixels its processing, which...

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-260 I'm sort of baffled that you didn't get it right in the first place. About 15 years ago I was making a gamemaker project entirely centered around that very same fluid transmission mechanic - equalizing levels in neighbouring vessels. My game wasnt grid bas...

If you had limited bot lift rate to 1 per second per chest, then you'd be choked for many recipes, most of which are ubiqutous such as green circuits. Making bots unfeasible for extremely large volume transportation for applications like this is the whole reason this topic is brought up.

Seconding the idea of limiting bots to only have one of them access an individual chest at a time. That way you can't just make more bots to increase throughput, you'll have to actually design the logistic network properly. Particularly high throughput areas will not work with bots altogether and wi...

Me gripe with bots is that they remove the challenge. It's true that it's easier and quicker to design and build things that way, but that very aspect is makes it uninteresting. Building a factory IS the fun part of the game, and bots remove it neatly. Bots feel a lot like 100% refined sugar cereal...

Me gripe with bots is that they remove the challenge. It's true that it's easier and quicker to design and build things that way, but that very aspect is makes it uninteresting. Building a factory IS the fun part of the game, and bots remove it neatly. Bots feel a lot like 100% refined sugar cereal:...

As outlined in the article, logistic bots are inherently broken simply for the fact of being a resource teleport equivalent. Grand zero management is involved, just place a "teleport gate"and "teleport power cells" and you're good. There's no way you can look at it and justify an...

I work at the factory currently and I used to live in location where the only type of pavement was prefabricated concrete slabs (yes no asphalt, no stone paths, either dirt or concrete, nothing in between). The two defining features of concrete floor and pavement are: 1) it is FLAT 2) it is GRID , i...

The real world equivalent of "enrichment" is breeding, U-238 is converted to Pu-239, which is a nuclear fuel. It's critical mass is very small and it's extremely difficult to control reaction rate so it's not used in nuclear plants for electric power, and also because it's extremely expens...

64 bit processors were rolled into the market as early as 2003, if your CPU can run this game anywhere past basic factory, chances are it's 64 bit as well. You can then install 64 bit Linux and play this game in there. If you have old hardware, you should use Linux either way.

TLDR Make a power source that doesn't need water, only fuel. WHAT Having a power generator that requires no water would be handy in remote isolated places, especially if power is needed infrequently and/or in such amounts that using solar power and batterries would not be adequate, while also spari...

Servers themselves notify lobby of their own existence. The only thing lobby can do about missing server is verify if it's still there or not. It does it time to time and prunes the dead servers off the list. What you mean is, probably, an option not to show servers that don't respond to information...

Well yea but I did suggest keeping the color, just make it look decent, and not "generic recipe item 1" "generic recipe item 2" "generic recipe item 3".

TLDR Give different tier electronics reasonable names and graphics. WHAT Make it be something like the following: tier 1: basic circuit, a green PCB with a number of passive components and relays tier 2: vacuum tube circuit, a red PCB with vacuum tube electronics on it tier 3: integrated circuit, a...