I use faster belts on all turns as a habit. Besides this design is simple, but larger designs would kill me trying to identify which belts i need to use. The difference in resources is negligible too: main reason why I dont make only express belts is due to labeling - That way I know which belts are...

I believe current stance is to take things slowly. Heck devs are waiting with steam until they polish the current game.

Another very useful aspect of splitters:



allowing shifting belt 1 tile to the side without loosing speed. Again only useful for blue belts.

I didn't use blue belts but the concepts are the same. I would actually recommend using higher tier splitters: 1) to show that they tend to split 1 high speed belt into 2 lowers tier belts (i.e 1 red belt in = 2 yellow belts out) 2) This technique is used only for blue belts: you can turn red and y...

This is how I usually solve this problem:



works better with larger factories because you need to do it only once per line

If these are needed they could be added in form of modules anyhow thats what we are saying.

I really need to re-do my rail network...it works but i was stupid enough to make it british way...

But what for? I mean you can always expand your base...or build it differently.

Whats the point?

Agreed

Isnt everything is already an addon to everything?

because if you consider your factory that makes science pack - it is made of multiple addons each working together at once. And even on small scale you have beacons and modules.

Thing is, I would've given you the benefit of the doubt, if your suggestion provided painless replacement to the current system (as in it is capable of doing everything current system can). Simply because yes new people have trouble understanding splitters. (perhaps not because they are complex but ...

It still doesnt change the fact, that proposed change not only doesnt add anything to the game (you can already achieve now anything this combination does) but at the same time it actually cannot replicate *all* splitter capabilities as mentioned before. Thus making is a poor suggestion for replacem...

Imagine belt in giant circle around your entire base. Now imagine it has smart inserters that input items only when specific item is lacking. For example absence of yellow belts will trigger increased output of iron into the system. With your proposals it will indeed cause multiple jams, but current...

While i would agree, that individually they are simpler, (I believe current splitter is easier to understand then proposed balancer - since currently you know that everything will get split evenly) They are much more complicated as two. How would proposed system split random sequence \ fixed ratio i...

Star traveler extraordinaire, that suffered unlucky streak and crash landed on unknown planet.

Maybe there's a story element here that's been overlooked. You're a future civilisation, come to colonise an alien world. You're not simming the Industrial Revolution. Therefore, you'd create the efficient technology as soon as you could. Another note, most of the early game is still coal, as the c...

Heh I usually build ========= =F==F==F= ========= I L I L I >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I L I L I ========= =F==F==F= ========= Where I and L are inserters and long ones accordingly. 1 unit is 3x6, double unit is 3x10 making it essentially 3x5 per factory, It is possible to go even smaller, but i hate havin...

Well outposts need protection as well. I usually cover entire ore deposit with miners in order to facilitate extraction and it does paint the map red for many squares around. Some deposits are also located deep inside the landmass with out any decent water sources (or oil for that matter). Piping be...

does it save space? looks to me like you are shaving 3 tiles off the side by making it 3 tiles longer.

in fact i think it takes more space since you can share belts between lines of smelters.


Cool concept nevertheless.

I believe this is the most compact design: http://i.imgur.com/wjDWppE.jpg Since it uses only 2 pipelines for oil and water in the middle (2 tiles wide) as well as only 3 tiles on each side for products. Total width is 18 tiles, I believe if you want even more (insanity!) it would be possible to plac...