You find the cut off inserter hand and gear, but but don't think the long handed inserter is totally wrong? It removes from the furnace and places into the arithmetic combinator. And the refinery input is connected to the input side of a pump, which is filled with lubricant, and that is fed into a ...

Bots in flight would have to be updated every tick anyway to update their current location. Assuming the bot location and energy reserve are all in the same cache line, the only actual performance cost is in fetching the bot's speed, and that's the same value for all bots so effectively free.

it was rejected for some reason I'd like to know that reason. Most likely running two server/simulation processes on most processors reduces maximum UPS considerably since factorio performance is said to be memory bound. Also doubling the background logic could be somewhat complicate things. But I ...

How much of what you could do on a mining tool could also be done as armour equipment? And can you have armour equipment whose effects don't stack?

Isn't that symptomatic of using trash slots as storage? Would it be better to get rid of the trash slots, and be able to mark inventory slots as trash?

Naturally in that case you'd add inventory slots to compensate.

Removing the guns as items would also remove the ability to equip the same gun twice with different ammo.

If you bring the crashed ship idea into it, having the ship act as a power source (or charged non-rechargeable battery) makes more sense to me than it happening to have power plant parts loaded on it.

Grey assemblers are a research. If they become coal powered, then there should be an alternative to electric labs as well, and probably all electric parts should be behind research.

For some things, like yellow/red/blue belts and grey/blue/yellow inserters, even though practically all players use those names I think the game probably shouldn't. transport/fast/express belt carries at least some indication of their relative speeds. You might refer to 'yellow transport belt', 'red...

How much memory could be saved by making animations move in lockstep, then compressing the animation so only one frame has to be fully available at any time?

When you make super UPS optimized factories and use assemblers with direct insertions between trains. Inserters and assemblers have all odd numbered width and rails can only bee and even amount of tiles between them, so you may need to use cars/tanks that have an even numbered width. you can place ...

Rather than (or as part of) logistics cargo wagons, I think you would want to have logistics train stations. The idea would be that the station controls the logistics role played by the wagons, so the same wagon would act as a requester chest at the requester station located near the mall, as a stor...

Recommend taking those map settings, making them into a scenario and then having a scenario specific behavior for biter which sees them landfill slowly towards the player (and later you can use shallow water). This would be mod agnostic as the scripts can be in the scenario. After 0.17 is out, ther...

That's the graph theory approach. Based on full physics, I'd expect resistance and inertia to at least put them closer together, though I'm being too lazy to do the math right now.

Next none of the sources or drains are constant. They produce or consume a set volume in a single tick and then pause. So there never is balance point to reach. I'm not sure that assumption is necessarily valid. Assembler progress each tick is already dependent on the amount of power satisfaction t...

On the one hand, I think the aquaduct/open channel approach fits the game better than a pressurized pipe system. Pressurized pipes end up too close to the electrical system for my liking. That may be realistic, but is it fun? On the other hand, I think behaviour should match visualization. Current v...

I'm sure a physicist will be along shortly to tell me how wrong I am. Sorry about that ;) No really you were not wrong, but that speed of sound thing applies to the case where the pipes are always filled with no air holes. This may be a bit more realistic, but makes the pipes rather boring to watch...

The main issue I see is a very low reaction speed. That's a real thing; If I remember correctly it's related to the speed of sound in the liquid. Looking at the nearest neighbours on the previous tick gives you a speed of 60 tiles per second. Google gives me real speeds of 1000-1500 m/s for common ...

@vxsote, isn't flow speed limited by the speed of sound in the fluid in question?

Oktokolo wrote:I don't think, there is anyone in the "worm attacks should not be dodgeable" camp.

I suspect player position is not kept sufficiently synchronized to allow for dodging attacks.