I think it's not so much that they're keeping the tiles in memory, but they're keeping absolutely everything in memory (as well as synced across all clients in multiplayer) and that includes tiles. Keeping it on disk is probably not a useful approach; while the visual appearance of the tile isn't ne...

yaim904 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:57 am

coderpatsy wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:16 am

your calculations are wrong

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36288000 / ( 60 ^ 3 ) = 216000

The meaning of the ^ operator varies from platform to platform. Yours applies xor; you just calculated 36288000/63.

Sounds like something more suited for a lawyer, we can really only speculate here. Although I'm pretty sure that that is not a thing. You can't ask people not to modify your things, you can only ask them to not redistribute said modifications. In your example: Well, the mod would not be modified, o...

Flying?

Or under water?

Hydrodynamic legs for the shallows and a watertight (floating) pod for the deep?

Would it make sense to perform such consistency checks in the background, rather than as a blocking part of the save process? No. Consistency check is a read operation and while it is happening data must not change for any reasons, including game update. But if you can run the consistency check dir...

Would it make sense to perform such consistency checks in the background, rather than as a blocking part of the save process?

Okay maybe more than two occupants is unnecessary, but being able to say "driver only" would be nice. It is a possibility to split into 2 bools, 'allow_drivers' and 'allow_passengers'. It wouldn't be so simple, but possible If this does happen, I would suggest allowing for a passenger onl...

The idea is you store that you haven't processed the wooden chest yet, so you recursively determine the fuel value of a wooden chest before returning to whatever you were doing.

However, it seems to be quite complicated to get a list of all items that may contain wood (and the total amount of wood) -- especially as the game builds such a list by itself anyway. Is there any shortcut I could use? No, the only way is to build the list yourself. I'm trying to do that now! Not ...

Further research: What happens with 2 modded roboports with different visualisation?

Could the belt line tool be combined with setting cursor size to lay multiple parallel belts at the same time?

And if you lower the pipes themselves as well?

Round robin seems like a very bad idea if you have both producers and consumers of the good spread across the map, as it would cause trains to visit far-away stations because it is 'their turn' rather than preferring close ones, causing more material to be in transit and more network congestion. If ...

How about pass-through steam connections on all sides, like on the uranium miner? Of course this simplifies the player's routing puzzle as well since they would no longer need to route a separate pipe through each lab.

Note there are tricks you can do to perform some of these: Addition is done by connecting multiple wires (possibly isolating signals via +0 or *1) Subtraction via multiply by -1 and addition. Squaring is straightforward via (each * each). Multiplication can be done as ((A + B)² - A² - B²) / 2; make ...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:43 pm

Since water has no fuel value the water locomotive wouldn't consume any

Though historically there were locomotives which ran on only (superheated) water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireless_locomotive#Steam

Currently solar panel yield is calculated surface-wide. Accounting for smog would necessitate moving it to per-chunk, or recalculating the baseline yield for the surface whenever the pollution in a chunk with solar panels changes.

If you feed the turret from a chest, you could then use the circuit network to read the amount of ammo in the chest. Does mean there's an amount of ammo you're not seeing, and there's more ammo in the system.

valneq wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:47 pm

I really like the vegetation crawling out of the gaps in the tiles – makes it feel more aged and alive.

In that case, shouldn't the vegetation be initially removed and come back up through the cracks over time? Of course to a lesser degree the more often the path is used.