It's the classic "2d sprites in a 3d perspective" problem. Other (quite old) examples: 48205 , 32552 Those are just two examples I found with a quick search (you could argue the one with the beacon got kind of fixed). I remember similar reports about trees and inserters. sounds like it's ...

well thanks for running that, the results weren't what i observed. it looks like steam is garbage in more than one way

@mods, which one does this duplicate...?

if you want more info, you can use perf top

on Debian derivatives, sudo apt-get -y install perf-tools

on RH derivatives, sudo dnf install perf-tools

then run:

perf top

and if you want a more visual output, use a flame graph: https://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraph ... raphs.html

You can cut steam's overhead on the library page *a lot* by switching to small mode in the view menu. Wow, nice tip. :) Also quite strange the Non Steam version is has a non zero time for "Wait for Update" when Factorio's VSync was disabled in both versions and I passed "__GL_SYNC_TO...

it's just a factor of the steam web browser getting crazy and consuming CPU, which is why i switched from steam a couple years ago.

The ideal way to do any "large" entity is to do multiple smaller entities. That way any logic which interacts with "things around it" doesn't have to try to account for searching potentially several chunks when in 99%+ of the cases it will never find an entity in that area inter...

this happens if you first detach the roboport from the main network, and then it's destroyed. any robots associated with that network will typically go off to find another network but sometimes i've had them wait forever and ignore all other charge stations until i replace that roboport and connect ...

I'm certainly not expecting suggestions from random people such as myself to be implemented without consideration. There are already existing rules of very similar nature in existence, as I quoted, so the devs clearly believe this sort of thing is appropriate in general, and it is not impossible. I...

it might seem trivial to you and that this will resolve the issue, but there's probably side effects of making the change when you can simply not design rail this way and avoid the issue from the beginning

Imperio wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 27, 2021 4:05 pm

Good mod! Some thoughts:
2. Any possibility to have the greenhouse suck up pollution when working?

the game supports pollution only modules. he could add slots that only accept those.

in addition to increased compile time when tests are included (in C++ templates are recompiled for each (distinct) instantiation i don't see how this is an actual problem so long as one uses ccache zapcc, subsequent compilation times are substantially lower. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173...

Because it points to a problem, that two systems are so tightly connected to each other, that they are one big system. As far as I can see from @kovarex article, they still have a nice separation and layering. They just don't want to go for "true" unit testing due to overhead, probably. I...

Mskvaer wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:34 pm

TLDR

"Restart" with same seed (or not)

NewGame Plus mod can do this and more!

In other words I refactor for clarity, not just because I can. Yep. That's the point. I understand why Robert attempts to find a formal, mechanical way to measure clarity. And it would be cool to make an IDE plugin which can take a pile of trash, apply some formal rules to it, and transform it into...

refactoring is generally where you change the behaviour of the interface without modifying the interface itself and redesign would be when you change interfaces in a way that must be accounted for with backwards compatibility shims / warnings.. or immediate deprecation, depending on the level of exp...

The dependencies aren't explicitly written down anywhere, they're just implicit in the order that tests are run. I've read that an advantage of randomized test order is it could reveal hidden inter-test dependencies (e.g. a later test doesn't set the test environment properly and "relies"...

i find higher tier buildings to be a pretty fun design challenge. if you're creative enough, you can find challenge anywhere. i make the simplest things in life more difficult all the time.

did you try Bash in WSL?

jodokus31 wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 7:18 pm

If the path finder can skip a whole rail contraption, because there is no simple way through it (excluding forwards and then backwards), it should save performance. Assuming the path finder does it, but i have no source or evidence for this...

the pathfinder is available on github