First off, congratulations on the awards they are awesome and certainly well deserved! :D Although I don't use Circuit Networks a ton right now, all these changes seem awesome and might prompt me to learn more and start using the Circuit Network more. Especially now that Belts and stuff can be conne...

Lol this gave me a good laugh. It's actually a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be to beat biters with your gun, fist or pickaxe every once in a while.

As something else mentioned, only the bots in the specific roboport that the repair packs are in will use the packs. This can cause some issues as you might want imagine. So you can probably fix your current problem and prevent another just by leaving the packs in a passive provider or storage in th...

Wow that is one massive oil deposit. Lol
I also like how you're built around the lake, adds a nice non-industrial look to the base.

Anndd it's been forever since I updated this. :/ Apologies for that guys, but the good news is there is a lot of new awesome spotlights to check out since last update! :D You can find them here: Advanced Weaponry 0.3.1 Drone Home 0.1.0 Combat Units 0.1.0 Smart Trains 0.3.81 More Oil Production 1.0.1...

I'm opposed to the complete removal of the stack size bonus from the existing inserters. If the rapid inserters aren't smart, it will make unloading mixed cargo wagons a lot slower (since smart inserters won't have the stack size bonus anymore) If the long inserters don't have the stack bonus, it w...

Couple of tips from my experience. :) It is probably best to keep Red and Green Science each in their own Lane of the belt rather than mixing them like that. So like Red on the left side of the belt, green on the right, or vice versa. It is pretty much always better and recommended to directly inser...

This is extremely cool sounding! There are so many possibilities with this. :D I can imagine like creating one and leaving it at an outpost with some resources and miners and then when there is an issue at the outpost or you need to expand the mining you could hop over to the avatar there and get it...

Interesting idea! Cars so have su h a large inventory that I can see how you could transfer a ton of items this way.
Might try this out on my own and experiment with it.

While I didn't understand a ton of the technical stuff, it was still fun to read and gave me a better idea of how things work behind the scenes.

Very glad the transfer speed should be faster now though!

I think it depends on your current needs. I find they are good for smelting if your low on ore or for making expensive products like processing units or something. Also great to use in all stages of oil processing if you are low on oil. However if I do use them, I almost use beacons with Speed Modul...

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Yeah this has been a problem for a long time I think. To my knowledge there isn't really a way to fix this except maybe make the GUI scale smaller. But the m not sure if you can even reduce it below the default 100%. If your open to mods then I would suggest the Advanced Logistics mod found here:htt...

I don't think there is any standard number. Typically you will probably need more Logistics bots than construction ones unless your doing a ton of Blueprint building and not much actual production using Logistics bots. A good way to tell is just wat h the number of bots in the system ( by mousing ov...

To be honest that's actually really quite good. A lot more compact and organized than most my factories and I've been playing for like 2 years. Lol A few tips or suggestions though. Putting copper cable on a belt to feed circuits is typically advice against because of throughput issues due to how fa...

Yeah blue science is certainly a challenge. I struggled with it a lot the first few times I tried to get it all working. At this point I find it easiest to just go through it step by step. So first I figure out how many blue packs I want to produce. Typically it is 12 assemblers worth since the pack...

Yeah I agree a burner assembler would be pretty cool. Although it's not in the game, there is a mod that adds it if your interested.
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I enjoyed the change of context for this FF actually. I TN no the direction for organization and managing and such that your going towards is good. Especially the short discussion/presentation thing will probably help quite a bit. Also, that flamethrower turret looks awesome! :D Can't wait to try ou...

In addition to o what Serenity said, make sure all your power lines are actually connected together and are connected to the Steam Engines setup and whatever you are trying to power. Also you need to actually hook up a power draining structure to get things working. If there is nothing hooked up tha...