Outgoing signals are far far away. Those crosses may be really large, especially if trains outgrew L2C4 :). Passing many signals across entire junction would be even more ugly and unnatural. Chain signal closing is natural. Actually, chain signal is equal to regural rail signal, just one feature add...

I think description says we want to make smart and complex designs, and that’s because we are not satisfied with simple design anymore, and that is why we keep playing Factorio. OK, I probably should speak for myself only. The problem is, regular signal breaks the chain behind itself. If you want co...

Admitting that you still need to get the rail currently under every first locomotive every tick with no caching option whatsoever Is it a real problem for the locomotive? Do we know that? Actually, we don’t. We may guess, we may suggest, but that’s only exercise for us. We don’t know the internals ...

Pi-C wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:27 pm

Last time, the argument was the pathfinder would have trouble determining what rails are accessible to a train.

That's a single multiplier for a segment weight, easy-peasy. It's calculated once, and it doesn't change until railway is modified.

It would be way too calculation heavy to need to get every rail that is under each train to be able to calculate your speed at the next tick. Mostly, where will be single type rail for entire train, so that's a singe min(,) function. It shouldn't be heavy. Mixed rails may be approximated, say, to t...

And what if you place a normal signal in front of the chain signal? No space, he? :) No, there's too litle space for signals on a curved rail segment :). Straight segments were also blocked because of multiple intersections. I don’t want to teach, and at the same time I think when I read that it’s ...

I wonder: aren’t there external alpha testers involved? They should must spot mentioned issues.

Nothing speaks against it, but I ask me why? :D I mean can you show examples, where this would make sense? Once I designed large cross for heavy traffic with multiple waiting lanes where trains were allowed to change the lane if there’s train already waiting ahead, AND they were denied to change th...

Fluid tank is expensive too . But actually neither price is important for extreme players
Five pipelines can provide 15000 fluid/s instead of 12000, also giving some space for others communications.
Damn, I counted three lines across the tank

I think you can still use pipes, just shape your lake in HHH form and double the shoreline. Following setup provides 2400 water/s per pipeline, that’s a lot.
Delivery by train can achieve even higher throughput per tile but station design becomes really weird

The biggest "fail" is nothing to do with Factorio. It's down to a player who spends "hours and hours" creating items in a game, and then expects everyone else (Factorio, Steam etc) to look after them for him while he upgrades, downgrades, and generally messes around with his ins...

Well, I tried 18. In general, I like it. New sounds... explosions... and saturation slider to be set to 80% :mrgreen:. But also there’s micro-contrast boosted heavily, and there’s no slider for it, and likely it will never be there. Desaturated picture still hurts my eyes. Maybe I’ll adopt in the fu...

I guess devs think this is not a bug, just lack of feature that would be good, but... it’s 101st enhancement in the list. Dangerous save is not a software bug because it follows specification. Yes, it’s by design :mrgreen:. So, this is a UI/UX design flaw. This also may be serious despite it’s not a...

azesmbog wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:18 pm

But the nuclear reactors themselves are very effective as heat pipes (although they will be very expensive )))))))))

I have thought about it. Price is not a problem for a large base . But it look very unnatural. I'm not ready for this

As you can see in the screen shot, the heat exchanger connected directly to the offshore pump has no water, and that affects the entire row. For some reason, apparently at random, the pump will decide that it isn't providing any water, and the entire row of heat exchangers stop working. Then it wil...

Thanks for sharing. It's unusual and very compact megabase. It looks like there's no single belt

I saw stations that are always blocked. What is its purpose?

You can cut quite many lanes on both the 3 and 4 way intersection. Here is a pic where the lanes marked red can be cut and you keep the same throughput. No, you shouldn’t cut red marked lanes. I have tried it, but traffic jam was forming here. Actually, you can cut some of lanes if you know for sur...

What size are your save games and your hard drive (and how often do you delete saves) that it would "jam the trashcan quickly" ?!? My game saves are 100M each. Ok, maybe it will jam not so quickly. But still, it's unusual to use Recycle bin for overwritten files. That's not consistent. Wh...

Do the same that you do when belts need more throughput: Build more pipes, use higher pipe tiers (modded only), or use trains for mass transport. More pipes would be really complicated for huge nuclear plant. Trains for nuclear water supply? Almost made it. But I still need enormous water flow for ...

The file is not deleted from your OS' file browser GUI, but from within the game. There should be an OS API to delete file into recycle bin by any application. But deleting into recycle bin can jam it quickly (I do lots of manual saves). Only few last gamesaves may be useful, so the game could have...