you could do perpendicular connection to boilers in 14.22 as well. just noticed it in my new game. (no rush for upgrade to 0.15; still got lots of the normal stuff to learn...)

Hmm, the busy mad inventor would tend to make a task easier, to start with. AT the point in the game to which you refer, the player has -no- automation, at all. While it's one of the first researches done, low-level automation means only electric inserters, and stage-one assemblers, not an AI ...

Not looking to retrieve magic coins, but using the "J" key to hop over pipes and such would be rather helpful at times.

As has been suggested elsewhere, a vehicle (forklift?) that can transport one or more [filled] chests might satisfy this request.

Though I too have wished for a hand-cart or some-such to let the player character haul extra stuff.

And yes, I have used the car for such purpose, but I have real ...

wait... was "Read" present or past tense?

I don't have a picture right now, but the Tesla power facility on Hawaii is -literaly- 50,000 solar panels and a lesser number of attendant accumulators (Tesla Power). The picture I saw looked just like one of KatherineOfSky's solar installations.

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Sorry, I'm not graphically inclined. I do understand the need for visual representation, though. I might suggest using existing items, such as surrounding the core assembler with concrete or stone pathway, or even a combination of walls and concrete, for which primitives are already ...

it sounds as if i'm using a somewhat different approach: all train cars leave the refinery filled with empty barrels. All oil fields contain enough tankage to fill a train (2 cars @400 barrels is 20K oil units, so usually it's 9-10 tanks at 2.4K units each).

on reaching an oil field, a filter ...

I find this a very helpful post, as apparently do many others.

As you are in a position of knowledge, there is a question that i've not found any answer to, as yet.

In what you call a "Terminus" station, are signals required adjacent to the train stop entity? I can't seem to figure this one out ...

you are describing a "Just-in-time" sort of processing as opposed to the seemingly more common approach of setting up busses of intermediate product. While I have yet to attempt a mega-base of that sort requiring tons of product, there's just -something- about having all that unused product on belts ...

I have a suggestion for an approach to producing the rocket silo. Rather than creating it -in- an assembler, let there be a specific "rocket-silo" assembler that -turns into- the rocket silo at the completion of the build. There might be some opportunity for interesting graphics as the 3x3 assembler ...

Remember that turrets can fire over walls. Also, that you can set a new wall a few bricks -inside- an existing wall. load yourself up with wall segments, and BOX the nest in, starting a ways back, then adding interior walls, usually double thickness. repeat a few times to limit the scope of the nest ...

Suggest using cars as buffer chests instead of train wagons; cars have double the stack space, and take up less room; also don't need tracks.

if you want to be -really- picky, it should be named "long REACH inserter". the claw/hand looks to same to me on every inserter.

In StarGate, pyramids are landing pads for the Gual-ud (sp?) ships.

A possibly minor change to ease the Tech Interface would be to enable the arrow keys to nagivate the existing GUI.

The congregation of robots wanting to be charged at a roboport might be better addressed by charging-only stations. These might be scattered about a roboport's zone of influence, or it might be simpler from the development point of view to make them attachments to existing roboports.

you may be able to see a higher flow rate if you connect all your pumpjacks to a storage tank first, then your oil-2-barrel assembler to the tank. Assuming you are not baby-sitting the operation, it may even result in faster throughput, as there is a larger pool of oil for the assembler to draw from.

There are interesting video series on YouTube about different scenarios that other power users are doing to keep things interesting. Judging by the ongoing in-video commentary, two that are challenging are 'Building Platforms', and the various 'no-belts' challenges. The first limits where you can ...

What we are experiencing on this planet is an almost unique tectonic process, where ores are actually -forced- to the surface, thus facilitating our surface-effect mining.