It doesn't have to be one power grid; circuit wires are independent of copper wires. You can split up the copper wires to control power distribution and still run red/green wire between sections without an issue ;) It's a fairly common solution people use, but it is a bit of effort to go back and re...

One way to do this is to read the contents of the logistics network from a roboport into the circuit network, set your desired amounts of items in storage in a constant combinator and subtract one from the other, and then run the resulting signal to everywhere in the factory, setting the inserters o...

the suggestion sounds interesting at first, but since you would need a requester station that asks for very small amounts (single items) (to simulate storage chests), and that would then cause all trains to go and try to deliver those single items, i don't see how that could be achieved in a useful...

Each armour type has a fixed amount of space. You need to research and make better armour if you want to fit more equipment. (Power armour is the next tier after modular)

It might be useful to see, how bitcons blockchain works, cause I think that is the kind of idea that you have in mind. Not really :) It doesn't have to be that complicated; someone can just run a server that keeps track of reports. The crypto part is only relevant for the game account authenticatio...

I found the bug (??). If i set -12000 on iron ore = filter disapears, if i set it to e.g. -1600 it works. How? Why? Oo WTF?! On iron i cant use -12000 which i had before, or filter disapears, on copper i can set it to -12000.... what the hell? :D I think you might be mixing up the input and the out...

Then I have to say that you shouldn't be playing multiplayer. You can detect when something is changed you can't detect the purpose the player had in mind for changing it. Of course, as a last option you can beg the admin, if present, to kick that player. ..yes, which is why I'm not proposing a sys...

I wouldn't be, I've done that to myself by accident enough times and had to clean up the mess (or even deal with defenses failing) as a result, so I'd find it pretty maddening if somebody did it on purpose :) I'm not saying there's no need for a way to try to deal with griefers; just saying that I d...

1. Changing small stuff (belts, inserters, power poles, 1 or 2 assemblers over a countdown timer...) is never griefing. This immediately just suggests a griefing strategy of finding out-of-the-way parts of the factory and just rotating/removing/adding a couple of individual segments of belt so that...

I just have two or four assemblers loading/unloading directly into each train wagon from one or more storage tanks. This means you only ever need enough barrels to fill your trains, and it's extremely simple to set up. It's slower, but the recipe runs pretty fast so it's not *that* slow, and it take...

You need to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH at a directory which contains a file called exactly "libc.so.6". It doesn't search subdirectories.

I think you're misinterpreting ldd's output here - the game is searching for libc.so.6 (not a hardcoded path) and ldd is simply finding /lib64/libc.so.6 according to the current linker settings. There's no reason visible here why it shouldn't respect LD_LIBRARY_PATH just fine. If you set LD_LIBRARY_...

That's a really terrible wikipedia page written by someone who doesn't know the correct terminology for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic

Oh, sorry, didn't notice it was a spoon run. Yeah, you won't want the stack bonus research then

A blue inserter with +1 stack bonus can keep up with 3/s easily. A red inserter with +2 stack bonus should do it too but might not quite keep up perfectly.

LTN doesn't know an equivalent to either storage chests nor active provider chests. Turning a provider from passive into active with a signal could have applications. The final delivery of a depleted mine does not really warrant it though. You will probably need to go there regardless to remove bel...

One thing I'd find useful is a signal I can send to a provider station that makes minimum delivery sizes get ignored just for that provider. I usually set minimum delivery sizes to full trainloads, but this means that whenever a provider is depleted/being deconstructed/etc, the LTN system will never...

The "blob of blue" is just a thing that's rendered for display purposes; that's not how the game actually determines what has power and what doesn't. It just stores the individual connections between entities. So, to have "powered ground" there would have to be actual entities sp...

The output is random; the game displays the average when there's a random component. It has a 50% chance of producing any output at all, and when it does, it produces between 1 and 5, at random.

As I said above, I believe biters are only active when they're in an active chunk (lit up by radar, or having nonzero pollution). Biter pathing just for them milling about at their bases has been mentioned as a significant consumer of CPU time, though, so even if only some of the biters are active i...