"Your" constant combinator is hooked up to ltns lamp. The signal comes out of ltns constant combinator (directly next to the lamp)

When using the station limit you should not disable stations. Instead reduce the station limit to 0.

In general: If you do something like that you need to convert the signal to pulse as close to the source as possible otherwise you lose information.

Maybe there are tricks that can be used, but that very much depends on what is the source and what is the data used for.

Before nuclear was included solar was the only option - that was boring. You don't need it to launch a rocket. It's a fun challenge. Once you are finished you won't have to worry about energy for a long time. On megabase scale it's often replaced by solar again for ups reasons. By then you will have...

"No need to ever place signals on both sides of a track" - Trust me I think I get what you're saying, and that's what I tried, but unfortunately if I don't place signals on both sides, I get no path, which I assume is because I only have 1 main rail both coming and going. Doesn't make sen...

Can anyone point to a decoding benchmark?
I only found encoding and quality tests.

This can happen when a previous train over delivered. For example your station ordered only 1,5k but the inserters on the loading station didn't stop and inserted 3k. When this got delivered the station had so much plastic that the numbers flipped from negativ to positiv and your station became a pr...

Having random train order would fix your problem for a while. But eventually random will strike and your key unloading station will block itself again. Good luck debugging your problem with randomness mixed in... Better use train limits or other tactics to prevent this from happening in the first pl...

Why would that be needed?
Trains don't have feelings. They won't be upset if they have to wait forever for their turn.

If you feel different you could try to work against that with some combinator magic

Just wanted to report that not all is broken
It did work out of the box on fedora 36
Here it's using PipeWire ALSA

Installed version: pipewire-alsa.i686 0.3.53-4.fc36

That message says that AT THIS MOMENT LTN didn't find a train in the depot and that's why it can't send out NEW orders. This is just a warning and it will resolve itself as soon as then next train arrives at the depot stop. I can see in your screenshot that a train departed from "LTN Short Depo...

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Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:48 am

You're welcome to download it and experiment with edits

My first instinct after reading your post was I want more push back and less damage.
But no - trains are deadly with or without your mod so it doesn't change much.
I tested it and I will use it as it is. Thanks.

*megabump* So from this thread and even older ones I got the impression that my L4C8 Trains should be able to survive even when operated "behind enemy lines". Now that I am getting deeper and deeper into enemy territory I start loosing more and more trains to biters. Initially I thought th...

And I probably should have went with 8 long trains yes, but I'm too lazy for a large redesign of my base. What one knows with hindsight has no bounds I ran into the same thing :D . I don't know what made me think 7 cargo wagons are ideal but when I realized my mistake my base was already huge... It...

Don't disable. Set train limit to 0 instead

Just one note about:
"Megabases avoid chest because they hurt performance"
No.

Avoiding a chest automatically means avoiding an inserter.
Inserters are bad and that's why you try to avoid chests

That would be more confusing then the current display.
Nothing can consume faster than displayed.
It's just the buffer that causes spikes in your stats.

Maybe we should rename it to average max consumption

Everything has an internal buffer and consumes more when it tries to refill that.

Its definitely the most active category at the moment. :mrgreen: But it could also fit into the "Mechanical Throughput Magic" category - if we let go of the "circuit free" restriction. Many threads in there hit the "but that would no longer be completely circuit free" w...

Include subdirectories?