I've got new title! "Read this OR Santa Claus will die"
Not too toxic?

Hey, what's wrong with water pumps? High-performance setups require specific design, this is normal.

I never build nuclear power stations on water, because this is to easy. Delivering resources is a key point in Factorio.

Nevertheless, I think the simplest solution (without rewriting the article) would by modifying the title. The threatening "read this or be ignored" sounds very plausible, so it gives a serious mood for further reading. If we write some serious-looking hyperbole or nonsense like "read ...

Please tell me, if I made it worse (or better). :) I think it is worse because who will read rules introduced by a novel? Also, excuses reduces the power of statements. The writer may think this is an explanation, the reader will think this is an excuse, because he was forced (by title) to read tha...

jodokus31 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:03 pm

Would factorio get assigned to performance cores, if memory bandwidth is not the bottleneck?

I run small factory (assume no bandwidth issues) at x64 speed on Win10, and got two P-cores working. Not sure about macOS.

ssilk wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:19 am

the original title was “Having sex with biters (Read this OR be ignored!)”

I like that title! This is the classic: "sex" - now we have your attention.

AFAIK the bottleneck is RAM bandwidth, not a CPU power.

I think you wrote too much philosophy for such simple issue:

>>> The topic sounds rude, may it sound more friendly? <<<

I agree it is honest, may the honesty sound any better?
I agree those rules are important, may we express the importance with some other words?

This post has been there for 8 years. You are here for 2 months. Don't you think, that if that post was promoting "toxicity", this forum by now would have been dead, and all full with flamewars? The things are not "you either live, or die". If forum can live with some toxic post...

...somewhere in the MS Excel...
Damn, why selection does not move... (start clicking faster) Oh, I got sssssssss in the cell, watafff...
Duh...

Other people read this. Even vanilla ideas are interesting to ME.

imcute wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:25 am

not clear which "?" are u answering to,and the two "?"s have different meanings

That was a joke. In this case it means: both ways are very good, do whatever you want.

I'd say: if in doubt, try something new you haven't done before.

Very good topic. I also have "The Great Recycling Station" where all possible and impossible items are sorted, buffered, and then redirected to the production bus, or to the raw material bus. I don't like storage chests and don't have whole-factory-network area because of the chaos. I do b...

Alphys_Hedge wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:31 pm

[..] or even as an additional Yes/No prompt...

...with warning "your gamesave will be X times larger". Really, does anybody know how many MB/GB it takes to record all moves? What if I decide to continue to a megabase after the first rocket?

Nobody knows what the tag /s means

Better flame-tower only or flame + laser-turrets? Flamethrowers are slow to respond and misses very first biters, so you need laser/gun turrets for them. I think it is possible to build defense without turrets, using only flamethrowers (and repair bots of course), but such design would be more comp...

Should the relative throughput consider train size? Longer trains -> larger footprint -> less value, on the other hand, longer trains -> more cargo wagons -> more items moved -> larger value, do they compensate each other?

No, I missed that. I did not found yellow color on the graph and skipped the following text . You know, browsing nowadays is about skipping 95% unnecessary information, this works on a driver layer

Nevertheless... 1% is still unexpected.

First thought: wtf???
Second thought: lets make the graph correct.

Of course, small and large intersections are not comparable. I would like to compare small vs small, large vs large, buffered vs buffered and so on.