ssilk wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 24, 2022 4:06 am

moved to similar topic

Thank you for all the work you do, the incredible attention to detail, to keep the forums if not tidy at least as tidy as possible. Thank you!

I am pretty happy with my mall zone, with sectors for everything (and I do mean everything from iron plates to nuclear reactors) except science packs. How to measure a mall zone? Mine can sustain 20 PM3PM (productivity module three per minute) quite comfortably... I have a reconstruction zone, with ...

Research queue on always. Rich resources, except I turn down uranium, a little goes a long way. Turn down trees and water, I already live in a swamp thank you very much. No cliffs. No pollution - no biter attacks until I attack them, and I can still get all the achievements. I would love the ability...

I would be quite concerned about the overhead cost, in large bases there would be thousands of machines sending notifications every tick. Having a tick box to say I want this machine to send a notification would be almost as bad, they would all have to check if they should be sending notifications. ...

Vanilla does not give you access to locomotive fuel states, but there are mods that do, such as this one from klonan:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Train_Control_Signals

I love my artillery trains, using spidey for train defense. So satisfying when the last vestige of red is gone from the map.
The final plate of Pasta con Amarula:

Expansion overview - somehow it was easier making spaghetti with train tracks

First rocket launch:

My normal play style is very structured, neat rows, blocks squared off nice and tidy, lots of straight lines. This year I decided to do a spaghetti challenge, no straight lines, lots of unnecessary turns, everything squished together just because... Looking back, I see straight lines everywhere :D D...

I have to agree, fish are important!

My low-tech solution: drop a solar panel next to a lake, to power an inserter, which fishes fishes out of the lake and into a wooden box, which I call my cooler, to preserve my catch. Need more fish faster? Place more inserters...

Happy fishing!

Nice discussion:) Yes really good discussion... I encountered this soft deadlock the very first time I tried out the then brand-new train limits. I renamed one of my iron outposts to Iron+, one of my iron customers to Iron-, and set one train to the new route. That worked as expected, so I updated ...

Like the rest of the factory, the number of labs must grow! A red science pack takes 5 seconds to make; a good amount of early research takes 30 seconds to consume a pack, where later the research starts taking 60 seconds per pack. So one factory can support 6 to 12 labs. Of course the other packs t...

rlm wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:25 pm

Expected behavior: brutally torn limb from limb by biters with no mercy;

Ah the dreaded BCPB (Biter Cuddle Pile Bug)!
Thank you for this delightfully written description; I can't say I have ever enjoyed reading a bug report quite this much

*Zombie spidertrons stumbling one after another, after another.*
"Wait these are TRAINS! I thought you said BRAINS!"

Anyway, the spidey conga-line is great! Thanks for sharing!

Koub wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:20 pm

After a way too long hiatus, I'm back to the game, and boy I miss this feature !

Welcome back! *theme song from Welcome Back Kotter starts playing in my brain*

mmmPI wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:08 pm

Thank you for a very entertaining morning read +1
Also thank you gGeorg for an entertaining review, I agree with your points +1

If there will be only one item S, use an arithmetic combinator with inputs A and S, outputs A x S: if S is zero, output is zero, otherwise, it outputs A...

TIL you can add lamps and inserters wirelessly to the logistic network! When I look at the wiki, I see a note from version 0.13 that inserter hand contents can be sent to the circuit and logistic networks, but I did not find any references to wireless connections to the logistic network, and I did n...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:36 pm

You could have artillery shells that release capsules on impact. Now that would be fun. The impact harms the nest and the capsule cleans up surrounding bitters.

Ooh yes please! Pew pew pew!

each wagon is a self contained unit. I have seen some similar train line ideas, but doing it all in one cargo wagon, ooh that is a nice challenge! I would love to see a couple of close ups, and more specifics on the train schedule to load just the right amount of each raw resource. Thanks for shari...