I'm not sure what you are trying to do, what you seem to request - as I understand it - is already in the game. You can also limit the size of a chest that inserters can use by clicking on the red x and dragging over the squares you don't want them to use.

I think a 15:1 ratio of purple packs to artifacts is a reasonable ratio to prevent the player from creating extra artifacts out of thin air. At >50% productivity you're paying copious amounts of energy & time anyway.

well none, there were about 15 spots within about a 7x7 sector grid. enough for the plastics & batteries that were needed. Counting at 28K adv circuits and 5K batteries, I used about 100K petrol and probably about 120K worth of of oil, seeing as every drop of it was being continually converted t...

I crafted most main buildings by hand but not the ingredients from which they were made. Several assemblers were dedicated to maintaining a stock of 500 gears and 200 / 100 red / blue belts ready for use. The first modules produced were speed 1s because they allow you to build mass AM3s. 10 oil well...

I just did it in 7 hours, 7 minutes and 9 seconds. Some screenies: http://puu.sh/9Paj4/72e5740acb.jpg http://puu.sh/9PalL/b9a040c97c.jpg http://puu.sh/9PalS/eff96891f8.jpg What the first screenie doesn't show are the 4 assemblers I used to produce the modules because I disassembled them. They stood ...

grenades are pretty cheap, low tech and very effective at removing trees

I'd be happy with an option to choose between a male/female avatar, as long as they are presented in a dignified manner (ie. the female avatar is not a barbie doll with a few ribbons for clothing).

I don't think cussing, insults and swearing is a valid form of constructive criticism. Though I've been known to be wrong.

I can not fathom how <3 hours might be possible on a default settings map because the resources just aren't very abundant and oil in particular is very scarce.

thanks for the game devs! its an OCD treat!

I was doing some other things and then it occurred to me that two belts might be able to go under each other without being apart by using different underground belt types... so here is how you can put two belts on only 1 tile width:

gears, basic circuits, steel, adv circuits, flying robot bodies, batteries. There are usually streams of iron/copper I can pick up manually and with those resources you can craft almost anything. After that I just add on the basic ingredients I need.

it should need about 8 oil/s. (2 oil/s per refinary, 4x refinary.)

Dear developers and fellow Factorio players, I have for a long time played this game now and I believe a variable should be added to the game and integrated into the items of the game. As it is, we suffer with the indignity of having to convert unrealistic numbers of circuits into intermediate and a...

I'm very impressed with your speed run and how tidy everything is.

You say a speed run under 3 hours... I'm not sure that's possible..

why?

are all the assemblers working at 100% of capacity 100% of the time?

5 AM1 for red and 4AM2 for green produces 2.5 crafting power for red and 3.0 for green. This is a 5:6 ratio.

I hate to say this but the main menu (after starting) has a restart button, you can't miss it!

yes, he is probably color blind or green/red blind (not able to distinguish between green/red). I reckon there are quite a few color blind gamers. Considering the primarily male demographic for the game, color blindness should be pretty common compared to the general population (woman included).