AngledLuffa wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 31, 2019 3:37 am

Surely you see that these two statements are contradictory, right? You need massive piles of rocket fuel in a megabase, and the only way to get that now is AOP.

Coal liquefaction will probably be preferred.

Additionally, I'm worried about the delay of bots What delay? Construction bots require: Roboport Advanced Circuit [/u] gears steel Construction Bot Battery Sulfur + water [/u] Iron Copper Electric Engine Engine [/b][/u] Electronic Circuit Electronic Circuit Steel It is harder to make robots than b...

Agreed. The oil system has been working just fine for the past, what, 3+, 4+ years? Why the sudden push to change what people were (mostly) happy with? Are they, though? The forums here aren't a representative sample of the overall playerbase. If you're here, you probably already know how oil worke...

You're not the first to struggle with trains/signalling. You might consider using a complete modular train system someone else has developed: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=59517 https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=194&t=69540 There's also the 4 way intersection st...

+1 Yes.

Only workaround I've found is to built a bunch of temp warehouses, ctrl-click different items and sort them in my player inventory -> temp warehouse, and then fill the original back up in a semi-ordered way, and pick up the temp storage.

Couple numbers you might find useful: A storage tank filled with heat exchanger 500°C steam stores around 2,400 MJ. Laser turrets take 800kj per shot or approximately 3000 shots per storage tank. Really, though, sounds like it'd be easier to just drag some power poles over to it. You'll need it for ...

The only real difference between utility and military armor depends on what kind of modules are in it. You'd have to adjust resistances to account for that. Utility armor would have more module space but no resistance. One way to accomplish that would be to change the armor to "Armor Frames&qu...

Wall pattern we just used in our last Vanilla game looked like this: ZigZag pattern of wall, followed by a solid block of wall 3 thick. 5 tiles of blank buffer For for flame turrets space them out by putting a run of underground between them, with 2 lasers in front of them. Flame turret rang should ...

Italian Cuisine wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:07 pm

Maybe there can be a few types of armor: utility vs military.

+1 for that.

Explosive shells still work well, and as a intermediate product for artillery shells, it's not out of the way to make a plant for them.

Go to the production statistics and check the newly added pollution tab ( 0.17.12+).

Spoiler: biggest polluter by far is mining drills.

ManaUser wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:02 am

I would prefer they be more like construction robots.

I like that idea, assuming you could throw them into roboports and add a 3rd zone to it: Construction, logistics, combat.

Why am not surprised (@dev_il)... I just wish the reason given for the removal wasn't so insulting as "just doesn't make sense to us" In order to attain the level of polish we want for the 1.0 release, we would need to spend a bunch of time implementing proper support for RTL layouts, and...

I think the goal is to kill all the natives. Once you get a few more hours under your belt you'll understand the real goal is to kill trees, and the best weapon we have to do that? Pollution! Rocket launches are really just a side product of my pollution factory, so I don't worry about things like ...

I carry 2 suits with me. One for building, one for general purpose. Building one has 4 fusion, 4 batteries, a nightvision and the 6 roboports. Works decent enough until the batteries drain. Then I switch out the batteries for solar panels and start mining the bots manually. No exoskeletons needed si...

http://i67.tinypic.com/b5nq60.jpg You want to connect the tank to the pump directly (no combinators needed). And then set the enabled condition on the pump to be the numerical value for 40% of whatever the capacity of the tank is. Here I'm using a standard storage tank, so 25,000 * .4 = 10,000. And...

The circuit condition setup wouldn't be too bad, you could do it with a single pump. Set the pump on the input for X and set the circuit condition to "on when fluid amount is < 40%". Set an additional overflow pipe to the sewage and you're done. Y and Z will always be on. When the amount i...

I don't know of any way to do this in vanilla.

With mods, you've got Inventory Sensor which makes it trivial. Maybe make a post in the ideas and suggestions forum for some additional bot info for the current roboport rather than network as a whole.

Not sure this is possible within a single network. You can get the total and available bot counts for a network though.

If you split up your network you could probably do something like this: viewtopic.php?f=193&t=66884