Using this method in Factorio, for example, you would ignore the state of all the factory's belts while off-screen and simply use a counter to determine how "full" a stretch of belt is and which inserters would therefore be able to operate on that belt. Pick a inserter to jam if crap is l...

Sad to hear, that there probably won't be any real multithreading in the "near" future. It should give an overview on what to buy for more or less single-threaded processes. And yes, if you don't do heavy multithreading you probably shouldn't get an i9. Haven't the i9 double the memory ba...

Keep up the good work! I think the transparent windows makes the GUI unnecessary busy. As many noted there is something missing in the train logic to be able to make an effective many to many train station network. So I think there also is more work to do with the train logic that they UI have to ha...

Pipe loops can screw up the flow of steam. I don't think it's affecting your setup, it is definitely a problem on big nuclear setups. To be sure remove the pipes on the end of the steam engines.

I have never felt it's a problem and for me it's easy to hook up the pump-jacks (would be more interesting if it was harder). Don't forget that you can rotate pump-jacks.
There are plenty of other things that are annoying like trees and moving chests full things a tile...

Construction bots and personal roboports could be buffed and easier to build so it will be faster and easier to use blueprints. Requester chests could be nerfed so boring bot grid factories get less practical and you have to do the belt spaghetti. I've never had an issue with either of these... and...

One example that could be tweaked, is the time it takes to pick up buildings. It's just annoying that it takes so long time to pick up entities as assemblers and inserters. Fairly sure that's done on purpose so you don't accidently mine an important structure by accidently right clicking on it. if ...

What I like about the game is that it's easy to build complicated things. So I think the balance should strive for it to be easier to build and at the same time there should be a need for complex builds. One example that could be tweaked, is the time it takes to pick up buildings. It's just annoying...

I have a couple of thousand hours. Fluids - I've never needed to think about those. Alright, it's annoying they can't touch, but that's not a big deal (just use undergrounds for long parallel runs). Note on fluids. It's far from obvious that it's better with underground pipes than above ground pipe...

I'm not sure I understand basic fluid mechanic. Everyone knows that 1 boiler feeds 2 steam engines, and 1 offshore pump feeds 20 boilers (and therefore 40 steam engines), for a total of 40MW (I think). Question is, how are we supposed to figure this out? My only hints came from the campaign and the...

Fluid mechanics. I don't mean the esotericall stuff but the simple stufflike. How much is flowing through the pipe? Why is the pipe full/empty?
Should heat-exchanges be full with water or is it enough with a few % for them to work at 100%?

There is indeed a reason why god modules are disabled by default :D Shouldn't be hard to speed up assembler so much that the game breaks even without god modules, High tier assemblers and beacons is quite powerful to. Then it's not necessarily bad that the game changes and you have to set up knew g...

Hi Lubricus, Check out a thread I posted a while back about the insanity of Bob's and god modules. The factory does just over 3 rockets per second with NO bots (albeit a very bad UPS hit - might be better in .15 though). Everything is tile-able, so the only real limitation is raw material input and...

Building the bob’s mods mega base When I built my first bob’s mod factory everything went just silly after making god modules. Most parts of the factory just stopped because there were no need for resources and the supersonic bot’s are so much more effective than even the 5x belts. So I realized I h...

I like bob's mod and haven't tried angels. I think bob's mod add more complexity and content but it is in some way more of the same complexity, in vanilla you find new types of bottlenecks and have to find optimizations on new levels when you play at a god pace. Bob's mod have a tendency to slow tha...

It's also possible to get way to high productivity! I tried make iron plates with multi purpose furnace mk2 with 6 good module mk5 and one beakon with one lone raw speed mk 8. The stats info on the machine ended up like Productivity 300% crafting speed 58.4 (+1360%) recipe time 3.5 100 iron ore were...

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going off topic but with this inserter settings in bobs mods they are insanely fast

I like that requester chests is locked behind the yellow science. It's fun to try to get the big mess with belts to work. Simple arrays of assembling machines is boring. Figuring out and optimize layouts and belts is the fun part of the game, so it's great if the game force us to play the fun way. S...

Interesting. I have more train-stations than trains so it wouldn't be easier to set the conditions on the stops.

That would help building effective high speed assembling machines. But the question would it make it more fun to try build high speed stuff? I think no. The game need limitations to make the need for the player to create complicated and interesting builds and explore the mechanics.