how to debug factory designs?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:30 pm
So I've planned a bit of factory and now I'd like to see if it works as expected.
With belt based production, you can easily see if a belt is full or not (that's not the whole story, of course, but bear with me for a moment) but I'm trying bots and it's pretty hard to spot if an assembly machine runs only intermittently. I guess the only way to be sure is to run it in a test bed and see if I get the desired output.
I'm still at a point of the game where I can quickly STOP all other production and use the production stats to check how well this one works.
Still, that's kind of a roundabout way of checking it. I've seen screenshots where people have used bottomless chests to supply arbitrary amounts on one end, and make the products disappear on the other -- and as this was on a checkerboard background, I presume it was put together in an editor of sorts? I had a look at the scenario editor and while I'm sure that I could make it work for testing factory layouts, I have an inkling that there is a better way.
Surely, there must be a writeup somewher, but I cannot find it -- probably because I'm using the wrong search terms. If you could give me some pointers, that would be most kind.
With belt based production, you can easily see if a belt is full or not (that's not the whole story, of course, but bear with me for a moment) but I'm trying bots and it's pretty hard to spot if an assembly machine runs only intermittently. I guess the only way to be sure is to run it in a test bed and see if I get the desired output.
I'm still at a point of the game where I can quickly STOP all other production and use the production stats to check how well this one works.
Still, that's kind of a roundabout way of checking it. I've seen screenshots where people have used bottomless chests to supply arbitrary amounts on one end, and make the products disappear on the other -- and as this was on a checkerboard background, I presume it was put together in an editor of sorts? I had a look at the scenario editor and while I'm sure that I could make it work for testing factory layouts, I have an inkling that there is a better way.
Surely, there must be a writeup somewher, but I cannot find it -- probably because I'm using the wrong search terms. If you could give me some pointers, that would be most kind.