The benefit specifically is so that, should a stop open up, the train that goes to it comes from, e.g., it's stacker, and not from half-way across the base why are you setting yourself up for this to even happen at all? cheeeeeesus crust. you could use IRON DEPOT WEST, IRON DEPOT EAST. make sure th...

Also what would be a benefit of finding train that has least distance to a given train stop? what if that train would not want to repath to us since it already has a train stop goal that is closer from its point of view? The benefit specifically is so that, should a stop open up, the train that goe...

ptx0 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:56 pm

sounds like a waste of CPU cycles.

The additional load of doing a single pass through the results of the (already running) pathfinder algo to find the minimum one is so inconsequential that it isn't worth mentioning.

Oooh, neat. How far can that be extended before you exceed the inserter throughput? Doubled it up as quick test and it still worked at full capacity. For burner the max should be, (1.8item/second * 1.21 GJ fuel) = n * 0.0018 GW . So 1210 boilers not taking into account power consumption by the burn...

I like your tripling up on boiler idea. I made a late-game compact version. compactpowersteam.PNG With nuclear fuel and max stack upgrade, you can daisy-chain down the middle too. Removed unnecessary power poles and switched to turbine for compactness. Oooh, neat. How far can that be extended befor...

Its not a new design, but a rather neat one, very compact. I always like to see it as inspiration on the ancient boilers, where it was a common way of coal feeding over multiple boilers. The bottom inserters have to be electric to be able to keep up though. By using more electric ones you can fill ...

there one perfect idea that maybe should implement for entire machines in game - place module icons which will show what modules inserted in machine! This used to be a plan long time ago, but lately, especially after doing it for the beacon, I am glad we have not done that. It would fine to do if t...

for the application in the OP -- an ammo belt feeding turrets along a wall -- my solution was to build a looping belt. That's exactly what I did until I came up with the method in the OP. I think the inserter-controlled loop has several disadvantages compared with the circuit-controlled version: Yo...

boskid wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:36 am

Maybe some day

Please! It would be an enormous QoL improvement.

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Especially if it were smart enough to pull the trains with the least pathfinding distance first.

Yes please. I'd love a 'recipes and chest contents only' version of altmode. (The FF notwithstanding I'd also appreciate it if modules could be integrated into the standard graphics for every entity that supports them and keep them in alt mode for when you're extensively zoomed. The ideal would be t...

but why

Inasmuch as the only thing in your blueprint that provides signal to control entry into the crossing by trains is the exit signal, I don't know how you can say removing it changes nothing. The test save you have is not using the print you uploaded; the one in the save has the gates outputting to Gre...

I mean, build how you want, obviously, but a smelter area -- or other high-flow applications with minimal recipe complexity -- aren't the usual use-case for a sushi belt. They're best used for complex assembly. The labs are the prime example; another would be a mall, or yellow science assembly. A su...

It's actually a different suggestion @Koub. Original one was about copying conditions between trains, this is about copying conditions between stops in a single train's schedule . And I'd like it as well, TBH. I do some Skyrim modding and one of the features I like most about (in an otherwise godawf...

To be honest, I don't really see a need to allow more than 1 train to path to a single station. If this suggestion were implemented, I would most likely always have incoming trains limited to 1 per. Well, I see that. It makes sense to have a limit of 2, if you really have extreme throughput, so tha...

@Opetra: I tested it. Your design fails in the case of a player being on the tracks when a train comes. It, in fact, traps them by raising the gates; there is no lock on the trains entering if the gates detect a player. I presume you didn't intend that. Would be interesting how you tested. I assume...

I'd go the other way: Getting a hundred+ bots on the field at once and keeping them there is an incredibly tedious piece of finangling. Give me the option to death-blossom my entire follower count onto the field in one click, please.

actually you can produce lube without deadlocks: you use coal liquidification heavy oil -> lube light oil & petro -> solid fuel -> steam -> used for liquidification and to provide energy (steam engines) for the plant you can create a plant with this that doesn't require outside energy and conve...

Because manually swapping around thousands or tens of thousands of concrete/refined concrete/etc gets old really, really fast.

The fact that this same suggestion has come up for literally years would indicate to me , at any rate, that it's a good idea. Also, I think it's a good idea. It'd not be any more hassle in the worst case -- one train on each route -- and in any situation where you have more than one train on a route...