It would be nice, but it's also incompatible with the goal of not allowing you to target unexplored chunks; if the reveal radius were larger, it would let you fire further and further into the black. That's already possible with normal artillery, though, so I'm not sure if that's a goal (or if it i...

the same would be when it would potentially come to any exclusivity deals, which is its own subject...

This alone makes the alleged "competitor" product not even worth considering.

Zinic wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2019 4:01 am

In this update, I noticed a weird bug that I couldn't reproduce. I accidentally saved over my save that had the bug present, but you can see it in the image attached.

This has always been the case. When the smelter isn't smelting anything it has no icon.

DaleStan wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:05 pm

3) Yes

Steam temperature is quite pointless though, since it depends on only one variable, what plant produced it. A boiler will produce 180°C steam and a nuclear plant will produce 500°C steam.

This is not a bug, it means that there is more demand for the item than supply within the logistics network.

The biggest reason IMO is that enforcing checks on the inserter every cycle will have to be done for all potential insert events, even those that are from a single item type source (as is normally the case) and therefore will decrease the performance of inserters for all players. I experienced the e...

OKay I ran the simultaneous stress tests and I had no issues with power or shut downs for about 20 minutes. I used Furmark and Prime95. So I disabled smoke. And for a few minutes, I thought it had done it. I managed to place down several more burners and powerplants. Then it crashed again. And then...

Unpowered combinators lead to undefined output (more specifically, it does not update its internal state until power returns). The right way to do this is to ensure that your combinators never lose power by putting them on a separate solar/accumulator power circuit. 1) The whole point of a constant ...

As mentioned above, if it works and you're having fun, you're doing it right :D One thing to go for next would IMO be megabasing, usually defined as getting at least 1k SPM (science per minute consumed by labs). It forces you to think of designs and optimise out your spaghetti, as well as use beacon...

Your save contains 3 boilers and 6 steam engines though, which means that the save succeeded before your computer crashed?

In either case, loading your save had no issues and I could build another 10 or so steam engines without any crashes. It's almost certainly a hardware problem.

Why not just turn up the settings? Decreasing pollution absorption from the defaults (1 in vanilla, 0.5 for deathworld) can make the biter attacks much more difficult to handlel.

You should definitely post your corrupted save here, otherwise the devs can't help you.

Another possibility is to have it similar to the "train path" arrows you get while hovering over an automatic train in motion, but with additional colouring for block. Unidirectional tracks get single arrows, and dual-directional tracks get a set of two arrows.

blackbat wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:57 pm

Also, @Klonan, I hope you tweak the icon for the Assemble Mk3, the gears on this one are... not functional.

Otherwise, great stuff, as usual.

Normally I'd say this is excessive nitpicking, but this is a game about process automation engineering after all.

The time has already come to release new fluid physics. Come on, make a final effort and do it already. You put it off for too long. I'm actually pretty surprised it's not already done. With all the fuss about nuclear eating your UPS, I'm running ~20GW nuclear with only 0.25ms on fluid manager upda...

The time has already come to release new fluid physics. Come on, make a final effort and do it already. You put it off for too long. I'm actually pretty surprised it's not already done. With all the fuss about nuclear eating your UPS, I'm running ~20GW nuclear with only 0.25ms on fluid manager upda...

Oh, that's one of the conditions I put on myself. No beacons, no modules except for some oil/solid fuel processing. This is to be one of MANY such factories. I'm just realizing that maybe...just maybe...I'm gonna need to find a lot more ore. No, you're gonna need to find a lot more computing power....

You're dealing with 8k gc/min, which is not really in the megabase range yet (should convert to roughly 250 or so SPM with 0.17 4 prod beaconed ratios). It's unlikely that your 400k chips are all being consumed if your production is only at 8k gc/min. Using megabase ratios (max prod modules with spe...

A fully powered and upgraded laser drains about 8MW (9.6 shots per second) ...what? Are you confusing peak electrical consumption with drain? Wiki says only 24kW drain, and IIRC drain doesn't increase with upgrades. You're confusing the colloquial use of the word "drain" in the sense of &...

Press P, click All Time. You get a view classified by item type.