Actually, you can do that without combinators. Simply put a single Accumulator down near the Offshore Pumps providing water to your coal/wood/solid fuel power plant, and wire it to those Offshore Pumps. Set them to operate when A is less than some desired amount. If you have enough power generation...

It's not a matter of realism, it's a matter of consistency. Everything in the game adheres to the laws of the conservation of matter and energy, except in this one occasion. Nuclear reactors don't. The neighbourhood bonus is pure magic. For that matter, solar panels are basically infinite free powe...

BTW when I say "vanilla is too easy", I mean "vanilla is too easy for me, a seasoned player." I think it's about right for new players. I think this is, basically, the realm of modding, then. The New Player Experience is pretty critical to a game like this, and Factorio's NPE is...

That's not true. As you've read accumulators have the lowest priority. You do need to switch steam power if you want to use it only when the accumulators are empty. Once you get a significant amount of solar coal power is supposed to be a backup. If you don't use combinators they will both be used ...

Ironically enough, nuclear fuel isn't all that valuable, once you run the math. In 10,000 ore, you'll get around 7 U-235 (and effectively unlimited amounts of -238, as long as you're not shooting it at biters), even before Kovarex processing. That's 70 fuel cells, which is 14,000 reactor-seconds (IO...

How much water consumption per minute? If it's 480MW, approximately 296,640 fluid units/min. Each train can bring in 100k, so it'd be about a train every twenty seconds for the reactor overall. I don't know how the internal balancing might impact that, though. Or, for that matter, if there's any in...

The trick with reverse logiic, e.g. load when no signal is smart. Some tip: You could use filter inserter set to "set filter" for loader. That way, filter inserter without filter is in deep sleep, therefore UPS friendly. Althou you would need to add another decider to invert the signal ag...

It'd be nice to have, basically, a roboport version of an active provider chest. Why do you want to overstuff your network with bots? If they don't want to fly away, there are no job for them. And if all of them are accidentally parked into this port, you definitely have a serious problem with char...

It'd be nice to have, basically, a roboport version of an active provider chest. As it is my usual answer is to have two roboports, one for logistics and one for construction, with filter inserters pulling the unwanted ones and reinjecting them into the correct port, and then supplemental stuff adde...

@Kroub: As long as the game lets me carry a tank and thirty trains in my hip pocket, arguments founded on a 'realism' basis aren't going to go far

You can, but not with RHD. Take mmmPI's layout, switch it to LHD, and you get full signalling. Is there an analysis of how this compares with an ordinary LHD roundabout without the extra cross-tracks throught the middle of the circle? Not analytically, no. Observational practice from emplacing the ...

I use 'em regularly, but for fairly limited purposes: 1. Trash train recycling, as others have mentioned; excess gunk from builds or deconstructions get hauled back, dumped into active providers, and cycled into the lognet storage as required. 2. Mall materials that I want to store in quantities wel...

blazespinnaker wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:26 am

I think currently, he is saying that snap to grid is unchecked.

I can't think of a scenario that I've been happy that was true. I'm curious how folks use default none.

My usual no-snap stuff is various belt-painting configurations.

Or so: The ugliest situation for me as player is when I hit undo and nothing happens. Was it just outside of my screen, did I overlook it, because the change was so small, did I hit the key correctly or did it undo nothing? See, that's just the scenario a redo button would help: You hit it and see ...

That's a different topic on the same subject and you didn't quote it; how the heck was anyone supposed to know that's what you were replying to? Not sure what you mean. It is not the same subject, otherwise it had been joined together. But they are quite similar. I clearly quoted SoShootMe. SoShoot...

My own refinery preference is to pick somewhere well out of the way (refineries are big, right up there with chip farms and smelting arrays) but with direct access to water. If there's a large enough lake I'll probably build it out with landfill, even. Bring in oil, by pipe at first but by train as ...

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. See https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=529435#p529435 the las...

If my landfill needs grow beyond the abilities of an unbeaconed assembler, I'll just put down another. It's a helluva lot cheaper than trying to push one as far as possible, although I guess that's a neat engineering challenge. You can even just have a train unload directly into 'em; three stack ins...

I tend to compromise; I like the production efficiency of speed + prod mod synergizing (beaconed or otherwise), but I will usually slap triple eff-1s in my miners. Since mining patches are the ones that wind up having to move and be placed closer to biter nests, it reduces their local pollution (and...

GotLag wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 26, 2020 1:27 pm

This is a good idea. The current design is a bad one - map and blueprint icons are not signals, they are icons, and as such should be allowed to select the full range of icons.

Yeah, it'd be nice. You can do some hacky workarounds, but they're *hacky*.