DRY411S wrote:Integer functions (DIV, MOD, x^y, factorial!)

Signals are integer values. So Arithmetic combinator division is actually integer division.

If anything has become clear to this point then it's that having a circuit logic capable of reading and controlling every detail of your factory is not feasable because it would mean the game runs twice in extreme cases and the circuit logic becomes an engine in the engine. I've read the call for a...

ssilk wrote:With 0.15 the boilers will produce real steam and so steam engines will really work with steam.

"steam", but that's only in name. They could produce cool-aid and then make steam engines run on cool-aid, gameplay would be no different.

I might have an answer to that: it's copy on write. One of smarter tricks I've seen done by computers :). Also, the game state is already duplicated if I am correct. It's a couple of tens of megabytes only, so not such big deal. From what I understand Factorio is memory bandwidth limited. It also w...

Xeanoa wrote:What benefits does this have over place-and-forget solar/accu power?

It's not powered by magic unrealistic solar panels (and to lesser extent, the perfect efficiency accumulators).

How much time and effort has been spent on improving the single thread performance of Factorio? How much of that time and effort will need to be thrown away in order to get a net positive performance gain with multithreading? Maybe going all out multithreading right now might imply throwing away yea...

Meltdown could mean: 1 reactor is running 2 someone disconnects power line to factory (=0 load) ... 3. Circuit detects impending meltdown 4. Triggers Power switch to overflow accumulators 5. Reactor power down sequence initiated Come on, "tickling the dragon's tail" could be loads of fun....

It probably shouldn't blink. Flickering/blinking UI elements feel clunky (unless they are supposed to). Probably happens because the update happens in two frames (cycles). One which calculates the pollution increase, then the next which applies the reduction. More clear to see if you enable the poll...

NoQ wrote:Upd: yep, i'm seeing my labs deadlock. Need some help, because the behavior of the splitter sounds natural, what am i doing wrong?><

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You just need to keep belt under certain capacity. Use some logic to stop all inputs once the belt is full enough.

PS. I'm setting out to test if the production overflow (trying to craft faster then the game can) actually creates virtual items that get outputed later on. Production overflow could be the reason assemblers keep working at 60/s even after modules are removed. The overflow just accumulates. But tha...

It's scheduled for 0.15 based on some of dev replies in other thread. Wow this is great news! Can you link the thread? From https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39218#p234293 : The game is still in alpha. Many of the things mentioned(train contents reading, basic train control, abili...

aober93 wrote:Well and why aint there a mod that solves this? Does factorio not allow modding inserters stack size?

Nope, it's a hardcoded bonus for all inserters. Best a mod can do is separate the bonus for stack inserters from the bonus for non-stack inserters.

While there is some demand for this feature I think this should not make its way into the game. Factorio is about making complex things out of simple elements. Every element has the most simple functionality possible. This particular device will be complex as hell no matter how do you solve materia...

While a nice concept, I feel like the programming's a bit much for one bot, and at the same time it's too slow. How about it takes commands from, and outputs into, the circuit net? Like a mix between AAI and your idea. It'd be constrained to a nearby pole by a wire, but could get a radio later as a...

You're asking for a ton of headaches. Yes, in theory you can control where trains go by opening/blocking stations. In practice though it's almost impossible to guarantee the ENTIRE route to the desired target station will be open (no other trains in path!). Might work if you have a single train in y...

Sort of like of those programmable toys from the '90s.


I like it. It's a relatively simple idea to understand. Copy paste feature should work on the robots to ease using them en-masse.

Maybe it could be done as a mod of some kind. The "insides" of the machine would be a purely aesthetic feature only. Once you exit that interface all of it would be removed (only stored in some internal data structure by the mod), and the modifications applied to the entity directly. That ...

@hansinator: Someone posted this on reddit a while back:
http://i.imgur.com/HbAiEjw.png

Well, this is how I would see this working. Let's say it gets implemented. Someone posts a blueprint for an ideal setup that's easy to use, produces everything, and can easily be expanded. Your game then becomes a bunch of furnaces, this array of assemblers, and oil. Very few players would actually...

Is it even possible to add both properties to a lamp? If it is any help would be appreciated! Unluckily no, each entity has a fixed set of properties it uses and ignores the rest. What mods usually do is create additional hidden entities to combine their functionalities. So in your case you would h...