Mod No Power Icons can hide some of warning icons. It seems it cannot hide missing repair pack warnings by now, but you can contact the author for an enhancement.

In my base, storage chests do not store anything, they just moves all content on belts, and then items arrive to The Great Recycling Station where every single item is sorted and redirected to corresponding consumer or to the shopping mall and other output chests and buffers. Recycling station also ...

I don't trust a machine, which makes it's own conclusions and interpretations.
ChatGPT is not designed to make it's own conclusions. I just... arranges words which match better its trained network, as Koub said. Though, it does it very well. Ask ChatGPT, what was its training dataset :)
By the ...

The point is, that you can't fully trust and that makes it's dangerous.
It's a bit like someone does the googling work for you, but misinterprets things differently.

I would say the opposite: in general, it is more dangerous if non-specialist does the googling by himself. Most people just read ...

I would say, instead of "don't expect truth", i would say, expect failures and mistakes. Many things are correct, but not everything...

I would say, expect mostly the truth, just don't trust 100%. I think ChatGPT is way better than just " many things are correct". Its answers are so laconic and ...

TLDR : don't expect truth from ChatGPT and its siblings, just expect things that sound right. Thins includes subjects like Factorio.

That's not true. Regarding the facts or opinions, it gives very good answers. I had a long and fun discussion about specific things I really know, and it gave ...

I handcraft a lot in early game, but I start automating very soon, because it is very fast and very simple. You don't need infrastructure and logistic for that, just two chests. My early semi-automated mall looks like this:


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I manually collect and distribute raw materials to ...

They all say that backups are the end user's responsibility .
They all are old-fashioned applications. Most of existing software are poor examples. This is so common, so people think this is normal and this thinking pattern is just buried in the brain.
Let's imagine an application says "we work ...

The autosaves aren't just for corrupt saves. If I make a mistake in game and don't realise for 10 minutes, I might choose to load an autosave that isn't the latest one...

Automatic backups serve both these purposes, just need a proper GUI for that. For developers, backup management and GUI ...

You don't need a mod for this. Simple backup software can do this.

I'm a little surprised how difficult to explain the main idea. Modern software does fkn everything for a user, so he does not need to know what the "mod" is, what 3rd party software he need, and player does not need to even know ...

Tertius wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:10 pm If you fear corruption, create one manual individually named save every day just after you started playing.

Are there mods that can do gamesave on daily basis? Say, for last three days?
I guess mods can't because they have no access to a wall clock, right?
Could Factorio do that for a player?

If you have issues repeatedly something is really wrong with your hardware.
This is the point: can I play Factorio WHEN my hardware looks faulty but I'm not able to find exact reason?

Developers can say "we are not responsible for your hardware", and they can say "our game runs regardless of ...

I will not give up :). Let's check what we can check: bools and enums; some integer and float variables also have "sane" value ranges. If we check 30%, this is good. The extreme case - make a load test (simplified) right after a save. If I had faulty hardware, I would want such option regardless of ...

Can the values be checked during the saving? This will not prevent such errors, but will give an immediate warning "use backup autosave RIGHT NOW", and the autosave will do the job it's intended to.
Yes, value checking would take more time, there may be an optional checkbox in the options. This ...

The issue is not completely over. We can say: well, it is my hardware or cosmic rays, so what can I do to prevent next gamesave loss after another XXX hrs?

My solution is: I make additional manual gamesaves once a day - two or three rotating backup files. If some gamesave will corrupt for whatever ...

vjbone wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:31 pm But what will happen if don't? Air strike, bitter attack from range X?

I have suggested a volcano for this.

Maybe "flexibility" was not the best word. Yes, we can make crazy things in Factorio, but some designs look unnatural, awkward, ugly, and vice versa. I think pipeline of pipes is slightly better than pipeline made of tanks, YMMV.

There also is another approach: decompress water to 2 x 1500 when arrived to nuclear station, this gives more flexibility for station design.

I think every post should have a button "+1" ̶o̶r̶ ̶"̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶"̶. That's simple and universal.

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