I know a lot of people have said they are having issues with this, but I personally have stopped really noticing it. It I want to place many belts in a row, I just copy-paste. It can be annoying. I already had saved blueprints for 4-wide belts & 4-wide turns, though, so I've dodged a lot of it.

I wonder -- maybe it's because the beacons are trying to make up their entire power pool at once, and so are trying to draw more than their rated fixed power? I dynamically turn off beaconed sections of my plant via switch, and one of the things I've noticed in the power graphs is that, when a secti...

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Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:52 am

Redo doesn’t help you with that problem. Helpful for this is something, which shows you what you have undone (and what might be next).

Yeah it does, because you can just hit *redo* until you get back to where you were expecting.


A redo stack would be superb and I've wanted it plenty of times.

I'd like a. Either replacing 'Follower robot count' with something that makes those follower robots more useful, or removing follow robots from the game entirely. The Spidertron does everything they do, better, and they're a massive UI pain to do en-masse. Swap the infinite research to strengthening...

Foamy, that’s actually a great idea, I’ve never thought about that. Feed boiler area with high speed belts to increase quantity of boilers but break off to small yellow belt sections to feed burner or regular inserters so they can grab it. It seems so obvious now that I type it out... ;) I just alw...

Yeah. The slow effect coupled with the DoT is absolutely brutal . The player can (sort of) deal with it because a player with MkII armour and the correct mods is a hepped up jackrabbit with a pocket nuke launcher, but with things like the car, tank, and spidertron they're all much more ponderous and...

Very cool. I'll try this out sometime soon. I was building something like this, but this is much better. Have you measured it for "in use %". Ie, how often are the the assemblers waiting on input / output? Are there ever any gaps in the compressed belts? Also, are the medium electric pole...

The advantage of regular inserters is only given as long as they do not need to pick up from red oder blue belts -which only fast inserters can do relieably? Or is this deprecated? Nah, it's still true. You can even manage to mess up fast inserters if they're pulling from undergrounds and the belt ...

It's done by the internal signal index order, which corresponds, I believe, to the order in which items are listed in your crafting screen. For example, a U-235 signal will always override a U-238 one.

On the other hand, both reprocessing and nuclear fuel production are very slow processes, so the payback time for high-level productivity modules is long – long enough to wonder whether it is really worth doing. Honestly, it isn't. Uranium is dirt cheap, especially if you start grinding out the inf...

The only thing I can think that would fix that would be to filter every train wagon that could get that fuel, to not allow that fuel to be put in it. Honestly, if they're single-cargo wagons (which is pretty common) you should be filtering them anyway, just as a firebreak against contamination. @to...

I honestly thought it did. And if it doesn't, it should.

Allowed to use productivity module on nuclear fuel production + nuclear fuel reprocessing. On a related note, I'd like to see further additional usages for efficiency modules, particularly say in roboports and radars. Currently these modules don't really have many valid reasons to be used other tha...

I've seen a lot of these sorts of suggestions, but...

Blueprints aren't locked. One of my most used blueprints even before the switch was just four belts in a line, and it's been very handy afterwards for when I need to paint en-mass and/or don't want to deal with the locking.

... I am a dummy and thought it was talking about the *production stats*

Never mind!

Why is the satellite under Production and not Intermediate? Because then someone would argue you could use productivity modules to make them. Honestly, why not? EDIT: [*]Moved rocket silo + satellite into the production tab. Not seeing any changes to the production tab. Satellite's still there like...

Ah, I see the issue: An unexamined and unstated assumption on my part, which is, specifically, that there is enough buffer capacity to last an entire cycle. If not, then use of it as a controller will be off because while the measurements will accurately track how much energy is removed from the sys...

I'd love to have a "low power" icon in vanilla, and not only for beginners. It would be helpful to see that at some times, laser turrets tax poxer production too high while firing, or to detect incoming brownout earlier. Low power is far more useful than no power (like in your car, the in...

Besides which, your base gets big enough, sometimes you forget things. :v

We have these great tutorials now that trigger on things. I see no reason there can't be one that triggers on a network having > 0% but < 100% power, that explains that when power is low you will see slowdowns in machines. I know it feels good to know this already, and have people who don't know it...