"You don't want to know _______" is like "I have never said before what I am saying now" -- it may be true the first time only, after which it will always be false. So... thank you for not leaving us guessing... BTW, I like the idea of factorio embedding sexy prime tuplets everyw...

This is straightforward and mostly stolen from xyzt's attractive number display recently posted to reddit . Assuming I have all the bugs worked out, it's a full-range binary+decimal numeric display with tick granularity. It has the following potentially useful properties: Always shows you the value ...

Right now we have to click this search button to text search for mods: Actual.png But it's not like that search bar is taking up valuable screen real-estate. I am positively awful at GIMP, which I really wish worked like MS Paint (how does anyone learn that thing!? I should really just install wine ...

Perhaps more of a feature request than a bug... if one deconstructs a gate which has been wired up to the circuit network, and then undo's the deconstruction, those circuit connections ain't coming back. The reason is pretty obvious -- those circuits technically were not wired to the gate but the ad...

Certiain player actions may be applied symmetrically and simultaneously to both ends of a connected underground belt (pretty sure ATM there are only two: reversing the underground's direction of flow and upgrading it But! only so long as one end of the underground or the other is within reach of th...

It isn't so much "Trains are prioritized by ID number" as much "There is no natural prioritization of trains and all trains are evaluated in a deterministic order." That sounds pretty plausible... I'm inclined to believe something like this is the case, but can't resist asking: ...

dewiniaid wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:13 pm

That said, I've been effectively nerdsniped and will make a simple combinator-implemented FIFO in a bit.

Heh, see you in a couple of months

Never saw that xkcd before, holy crap, that guy really has me pegged -- undoubtedly a lot of us factorians are similarly prone.

Around here there's a convention that such things are not considered bugs. So even though in casual speech we might say "it's a bug," the only thing that properly belongs in the "Bug Reports" forum would be situations where the developers intended for things to work a certain way...

I have spent many hours -- probably many 24-hour days -- working on circuit logic to solve this problem in general. I still don't have anything I'm happy with. Admittedly, I've piled several additional design objectives on top of this so that I end up wanting an infinitely tile-able FIFO capable of ...

Subject says it all. In RL one of the few downsides to illuminating the crap out of everything is that it tends to attract bugs -- why not give factorio players the same problem?

For the record I'm not the first to suggest this but the last time it came up was 2016 (AFAICT in a quick search).

Just a thought: if the idea is to reduce distracting background noise in modal dialogs, one idea in lieu of dimming would be to blur it. That way the visible non-dialog area would retain approximately the same color and luminosity characteristics. Perhaps a little bit of blurring and a little bit of...

Google wants quite an elaborate authentication dance for sanctioned interfacing with Drive. I'd rank: self-hosting great, CDN meh, Googlification bad. But just my opinion.

nuhll wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:20 pm

Im not even sure if factorio uses ipv6 anyway!?

Yeah, that was why I made the joke that correlation obviously implies causation... it could be a red-herring. But I doubt it. Won't know for sure until my ISP/router problem occurs again, I suppose.

I'm in the US. I think I can refine the situation which (I suspect) led to this problem. My ISP gives me fixed IPV4 but my IPV6 addresses are dynamically allocated by prefix delegation. But for reasons I've never been able to figure out, my router sometimes doesn't get the message if my IPV6 address...

Aha! After fixing my ipv6 everything went smoothly. Since, as we all know, correlation=causation, clients with broken (technically, working, but not internet addressable) ipv6 might be where the problem lies. Which is almost everybody last time I checked.

When I run my 0.16.51 steamless linux factorio client, it offers to update, but the updates are taking an unplayably long time. After waiting about 30 minutes, I'd guesstimate that 2% or less of the progress bar is filled. My client is talking to li617-218.members.linode.com to do that update. When ...

Personally, struggling to resist compulsion to urgently finish all my half-baked 0.16 builds with mod dependencies. I really, seriously, have a lot of work to do this week... people are depending on my and shit. Sadly I was super over-committed in RL this week before FFF announcing release target wa...

Pretty bugs! But those worms look like uncircumcised penises. I figure you should make them less smooth, or finish the job and give them a couple of furry stomach sacs at ground-level

Not sure how big of a redesign of these internals you're already committed to, but I think when building GUI stuff it's important to think really carefully about mods and lua, since crappy mod GUIs are bad for immersion. The current practice of flattening everything into the single LuaGuiElement cla...

Damn. totally forgot the unload to splitter thingy. thanks :) Oh, God, somebody got a stack inserter plus a longhand feeding a car , and since you can put cars on belts . . . Man that is one entertaining video. Portrait of a full-on obsessive minmax vision quest. Imagine his disappointment when he ...