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For those who dislike the new version's stack sizes, I'd like to present my small contribution.

The name is a little misleading. All stack sizes have been set to a number equal to a power of two. Yeah, I know 2^(2n+1) isn't a square number.

If I did it all correctly, all stack sizes have been returned to 0.9.8 stack sizes, with the following exceptions.

All guns except submachine gun had a stack size of 4. Submachine gun had a stack size of 1. I made that group consistent.

Ammo which had a stack size of 100 before has been changed to 128.

Ammo which had a magazine size of 10 (normal, piercing, and shotgun ammo) has been upped to 16, and a magazine size of 100 (flame thrower) has been upped to 128.

Please note, I have not changed ammo DPS, merely improved how long the ammo lasts.

Beside that, I made two other relatively minor modifications which I believe fit the spirit of the mod:

Inserter stack size boost has been buffed, in that each level is twice as powerful as the last. Inserter bonus 1 makes the inserter move 2 at once. Inserter bonus 2 makes the inserter move 4 at once. Inserter bonus 3 makes the inserter move 8 at once. Inserter bonus 4 makes the inserter move 16 at once.

Cargo Wagons now have 80 inventory slots, the same as a car.
when they only have 15 slots, less than a wooden chest by one, they cause endless debate on if they're actually worth using. With 2-4 inserter stack size boosts, the cargo wagons are now king.

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Please share if you find a stack I missed. I considered going after the tech tree requirements, but don't really feel the need for the powers of two there.
If you'd prefer a "purist" mod without the edits to the ammo, inserter stack sizes, and cargo wagons, give me a shout.

As for the requester chest UI using powers of ten, I'm a noob and stuck on how to fix that.

Cool mod, much appreciated. As a programmer, I just prefer powers of 2.

I tried improving it so that it is easier to update in the future, but I'm having no luck (first try modding). I gleaned this method from another mod and though it would do the trick, but the stack sizes stay the same. I am sure I'm getting the right property (stacksize) and I can print it out ingame, but the modification silently fails or gets overwritten.

I guess I'll have to stick with your mod before I figure it out.

Disregard the numbers, It's just proof of concept on 0.9.8 to see if it would work before updating.
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Fair enough. I just hope that you will make a reverse mod, If you convince the devs to change back to the original stacks... I really like the new stacks.

I have been living in the world of powers of two since way back when we had races at the whiteboard to complete math problems using base-2 numbers instead of base-10. It just makes so much more sense to me.

I havent downloaded 0.10 yet, but got the mod for when I do. I dont suppose it works with 0.9.8 for the inserter bonus mod?

Thanks for this mod!!!

I have a few suggestions.
1. You should make inserter stack bonus researches cost more. I think having a stack of 4 with your mod shouldn't be too much cheaper than having a stack of 4 in vanilla. Higher stack sizes should be even more costly to research.
2. The main issue with powers of 2 stack sizes was the logistics system. Is there a way to change it too with a mod so you can request for 2^A for any A from 0 to e.g. 10?
3. As already mentioned. Would be great to make it "just work" with future updates and other mods by modifying stack sizes to the nearest power of two.

Minor nitpick - The new stack sizes aren't powers of 10. Not really. 50 is a multiple of 10, not a power of (10, 100 and 1000 are powers of 10)

I mostly dislike the multiples of 10 change EXCEPT where it comes to barrels. I find 10s of barrels much easier to work with than 8s for some reason.

While you are at it - can you change the logistics drone slider to be powers of 2? it's messy requesting '300' iron when I really want 3 stacks (384). I suspect this slider was the reason it was changed to multiples of 10 - so that the slider made sense with the stack sizes.