[Resolved 0.2.8] Gears falling off the transport belt

[UnrealDiego]

When you build a curvy transport belt with an inserter right in front of it, gears can fall off the transport belt and congest it (May happen with other items too). Example:




Actually, even without the curvy belt the gears act odd:



I just managed to make a three lane belt out of a two lane belt.

[MatLaPatate]

That's an intended feature, of course, for realism ^^.
Seriously, what about keeping bug like that for this easy to get Conveyor belts, but not for higher Tier of conveyor belt. Maybe some kind of safe/accurate conveyor belts, about the same Tier as the Fast one, just to avoid these issues. That would make earlier factories upgradable, and would avoid too much automation at early game ... The game need to be harder, don't you think ? ^^
(But the 01 mission of the campaign is hard enough, just because there is no ores enough, so you can't get ammunitions enough to kill the alien base safely, without being very skilled for fight with your keyboard ^^).

[UnrealDiego]

While I see your point MatlaPatate, I still want the game to be predictable. Things randomly falling of the belts make the game unpredictable. There are better ways to make the game harder

[kovarex]

Not intended for sure, I will take a look at that.

[MatLaPatate]

Should I also mention that my own one sometimes bugged ? Not because some items fall down, but because where one side of a conveyor belt is "full", then it sometimes block (very often in fact ^^) the other side.

[slpwnd]

Should I also mention that my own one sometimes bugged ? Not because some items fall down, but because where one side of a conveyor belt is "full", then it sometimes block (very often in fact ^^) the other side.

Also should not happen Actually when we were recording the Factorio Tutorial 3 video (coming tomorrow) we got an instance of this (?) as well in the transport belt turn.

[Xinvoker]

Should I also mention that my own one sometimes bugged ? Not because some items fall down, but because where one side of a conveyor belt is "full", then it sometimes block (very often in fact ^^) the other side.

Are you 100% sure that every item is on a different lane?

I had this problem in a demo mission, BUT it turns out items A went on the left, but items B went on the center. The items coming from the left pushed the center items to the right, and it worked like a double lane 90% of time. Every now and then it would get stuck though.

Since I learned to make sure everything is left/right and nothing in the center I've never had this problem again.

[MatLaPatate]

Should I also mention that my own one sometimes bugged ? Not because some items fall down, but because where one side of a conveyor belt is "full", then it sometimes block (very often in fact ^^) the other side.

Are you 100% sure that every item is on a different lane?

Almost, but ... these bugs seemed me to be random, so I couldn't say ^^

[kovarex]

We definitely want the transport belt to be predictable.
I also wanted to say, that all items have the same size, even though they look different.

[kovarex]

This should be resolved in the upcoming 0.2.8 release.