Hottemax wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:51 am

Why does it matter if the train "has already chosen" when it comes to the train stop? How did it make that "decision" anyway (since it should have "already decided" to turn left, since that is the shorter route)?

I think stop itself is assigned to the right segment.

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Hello, factorians! I'm designing small mod to add Fluorine into game, with a healthy share of realism. I found info about SF6 gas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride) that is used as an insulator in high-voltage industry. I like this chemical interaction, but I don't know a damn thing...

jotun wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:51 pm

It would be nice if the braking force upgrades applied to the tank too.

This one, brilliant!

I'm starting to think that Sulfur Concrete might be just an alternative recipe for usual concrete.

If you have a shortage of red circuits, adding the prod modules to the red circuit assemblers is a bad choice here: you will have to build a ton more red circuit assemblers to avoid your output rate going *down*, which will mean you need to use up more of your limited supply of modules for them, wh...

Technically, this feature is better to be supported, but I don't want devs to waste time on it.

Checkout this thread : viewtopic.php?f=194&t=46855

1 pixel / tick x 60 ticks / second x 1 tile / 32 pixels x 8 pixels / item = 15 tiles x pixels / second / item Ok, I'm not sure why I don't end up with items / second, but this seems to be the actual calculation... 1 pixel / tick x 60 ticks / second x 1 item / 8 pixel = 7.5 item / second on 1 lane.

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:06 am

Don't even need a combinator in most cases...

Yeah, I know that 1 circuit wire is enough, but I like to build circuit-free. Moreover, sometimes this pump trick works. I just want to know how it will work after upgrade, so I could already plan pipe setups.

I agree that both capacity and throughput (~unlimited) of personal batteries need some attention.

Hello, factorians. I came up with another metric to formally compare belts and roboports. 1 tile of blue belt moves 45 items per second by 1 meter. Blue belt : 45 item*meter / second*tile. Roboport : 1 MW * 4 / 16 tile Robot : 5 KJ / 1 meter / 4 item Divide one by another (MW = MJ/s) : Roboport : 20...

With Prod modules you are free to balance production the way you want : More output with same input Same output with fewer input When I had shortage of red circuits, I made [1] for red circuits and [2] for everything that consumes them. Sure, [1] has priority as it applies all red circuits produced.

Here are my smelter array, main bus with science factory, and oil refinery. Power is 80 steam engines. I don't like speedrunning, just wanted to test my skills. If I ever want to repeat this, I definitely will reserve place for second red circuits setup. Productivity modules 1 pay back quickly enoug...

I' made it with a margin of 23 minutes the other day. No bots - you need only one setup, nothing to copy-paste. I widely applied Prod 1 : in labs ASAP, yellow and purple science, red and blue circuits, expensive intermediates. Red circuits were the most dangerous bottleneck. They need at least doubl...

Also never used combat robots.

Currently railroad techs have no intermediate dependencies and can be researched in a row. Why not to unite them into one? The problem of their separation is that the railway without signals is hardly suitable for use. It is all or nothing. Railroad must have more internal progression or be merged i...

Higher tiers of fuel give speed bonus to burner transports. How about also give speed bonus to burner devices? Furnaces, boiler, drill, inserter. Increase power consumption respectively, to keep same efficiency. For example: Wood, Coal - 100% Solid - 150% Rocket - 200% Nuclear - 300% It will make bu...

I never use burner inserters. First few minutes I move materials manually, then with yellow inserters.

Question about future fluid system. pump.png Will water leak into right tank, or will pump drain entire flow into bottom tank? Currently it works unpredictable, depending on orientation and/or building order. But how it should work with new physics? I understand that fluids are better to be controll...