a 1x2 reactor core takes 14 Storage Tanks to hold all the Steam. Every 1x2 you tack on to that adds 26 more Storage Tanks for the Steam. You don't need anything like that many tanks to hold all the energy from one nuclear fuel cell, since the heat pipes also store energy, and you will have at least...

Make prod use fewer components per craft, instead of giving you more outputs. And remove the speed penalty. That is only a quantitative change. For the same percentages, it makes productivity modules better. But it doesn't change the nature of the synergy between productivity and speed. Yes, it doe...

foamy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:02 am

Make prod use fewer components per craft, instead of giving you more outputs. And remove the speed penalty.

That is only a quantitative change. For the same percentages, it makes productivity modules better. But it doesn't change the nature of the synergy between productivity and speed.

Just be glad they do not separate out the Mining Productivity tech into its six (vanilla) components : Coal, Stone, Iron, Copper, Uranium, Crude Oil. That would be one nasty choice, would it not? The choice would be easy: lots of iron and copper and minimal amounts of the rest. But it would be rath...

reprocessing: now 5 used cells -> 3 uran 20% -- 4+1 -> 20 used cells -> 15 uran -> 70 used cells -> 52.5 uran nuclear with kovarex + new reprocessing: --> 107 - 52.5 -> 54.5 uran = 70 cells --> 0.778571428571429 uran = 1 cell You've calculated the productivity on the reprocessing as 25%, not 20%. W...

I know some of you may not care about this, but it's something that I've always been curious about and I'd like to get people's input on the following: What do you think Petroleum Gas is technically supposed to be? It's just a collective term for the lightest fractions of the crude petroleum oil. P...

I'd much rather a system that can extract all the heat from a reactor albiet with minor non-utilization in the exchangers/turbines than one balanced the other way around. In principle I agree. The reactors set the maximum sustained average power production, while the turbines set the maximum instan...

Koub wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:17 pm

we have a saying in French : Hell is paved with good intentions.

A subtle but interesting difference from the English version, which has ''The road to Hell" instead of just "Hell".

Yep, I'd also agree that upgrading from yellow to red and from red to blue should be done later rather than sooner. a yellow belt is 1.5 iron, 1 red belt is 11.5 iron, and a blue 31.5 iron and 20 lube. The service to cost ratio is heavily tilted towards the smaller tier, so higher tiers should only...

This is to make the stuff in the quickbar act like items. If you have something in your cursor and click over an item, it moves to the new slot. there was a lot of confusion about the shortcut vs item thing before. I like the new change: it seems more correct. But the whole point is that while the ...

Added logistic requests to spidertron. Added support to use blueprints, deconstruction planners, upgrade planners, and modded selection tools from the map view. Added vertical/horizontal blueprint flipping. Ghost build can be used to fast replace non-ghost entities, which results in an upgrade orde...

As the original reporter of what is currently the sole 'Assigned' bug, should I feel personally responsible for the fact that 1.1 has not yet been released?

Building belts in a line without spraying them all over the place is really nice. Could you maybe add this also while pressing a button so it can be used for anything? E.g. if I create a new station I have to drag a line of chests but usually spray them all over the place. Being able to go in a str...

Lua is generally the defacto language for most games these days. [...] If it were up to me, gaming folks would be using python3.6+ Python is powerful and flexible. But that power comes at a price in infrastructure overhead. To embed Lua in an application, including the usual built-in Lua libraries,...

I am using a simple roundabout for my base. I know it’s not the best It would be much better if it were properly signalled: with the loop divided into quadrants by chain signals, your two sample trains wouldn't even have to stop at all. This one is signalled for LHT, but you just have to flip the s...

Aru wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:39 pm

Yes, but you had to move the tracks to do it. The configuration you have here works equally well for RHT or LHT (and is in fact the one I usually use now).

I mostly assumed, and very non-extensively tested, that right hand drive had more options for signalling intersections. You'd think so, wouldn't you. But let me offer a counter-example. This simple T-junction is optimally signalled for LHT: LHTOnly.png I can see no way that the same configuration o...

FunMaker wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:23 pm

My question is:
Will all entities see a change of value in the same tick?

The same tick as each other, yes. The change of value is seen by all entities the tick after it is calculated.

astroshak wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:45 pm

your wonton destruction of their homes

A food fight to the death? ("The shrimp and egg wasn't very effective; load all barrels with pork and cabbage.")

I do NOT care about chunk alignment. Honestly, I do not see any point in it. I do for two main reasons. It avoids annoying mismatches when connecting stretches of track built separately or from opposite ends. With alignment, the minimum mismatch is the alignment spacing, which is enough to justify ...