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ChatGPT> What is Factorio?
Factorio is a popular real-time strategy and simulation game developed and published by Wube Software. The game was first released in 2016 and is available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux platforms.

In Factorio, players are tasked with building and managing an industrial factory while defending against hostile alien creatures. The game starts with the player stranded on an alien planet with minimal resources and technology. The player must gather resources, build machines and factories, and automate production processes to create increasingly complex items.

As the game progresses, players must research and develop new technologies to improve their factory's efficiency, expand their production capabilities, and defend against increasingly challenging enemies. Factorio has a single-player campaign mode as well as a multiplayer mode where players can collaborate or compete with each other.

Factorio has received critical acclaim for its addictive gameplay, complex mechanics, and attention to detail. It has a large and dedicated community of players who create and share mods to expand and enhance the game.


ChatGPT> Describe best green circuit manufactuig design in Factorio
The best green circuit manufacturing design in Factorio can vary depending on the player's specific needs and preferences, but here is a general guide to creating an efficient green circuit production line:

Raw material input: The production line should start with a steady supply of copper plates and iron plates. These can be transported via conveyor belts or trains.

Smelting: The copper plates and iron plates need to be smelted into copper and iron ingots. This can be done with furnaces.

Wire production: The copper ingots can be turned into copper wire in an assembler.

Green circuit production: Green circuits are made by combining copper wire with iron plates in an assembler. The green circuits can then be transported to storage or used in other production processes.

Advanced production: To increase efficiency, you can add modules to the assemblers to speed up production and reduce resource usage. You can also use beacons to further increase productivity.

Expand the production: Once you have a steady supply of green circuits, you can expand the production by adding more assemblers, furnaces, and input lines.

Balance the production: To ensure all machines receive an equal amount of resources, use balancers to balance the flow of copper plates and iron plates into the smelters and assemblers.

Automate the production: Use logistics robots to transport items between machines, and use circuit networks to control the production process.

Overall, the key to an efficient green circuit manufacturing design in Factorio is to balance the production and automate the process as much as possible, while also utilizing advanced production techniques to increase productivity.
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Raw material input: The production line should start with a steady supply of copper plates and iron plates. These can be transported via conveyor belts or trains.

Smelting: The copper plates and iron plates need to be smelted into copper and iron ingots. This can be done with furnaces.
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vjbone wrote:
Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:12 am
Raw material input: The production line should start with a steady supply of copper plates and iron plates. These can be transported via conveyor belts or trains.

Smelting: The copper plates and iron plates need to be smelted into copper and iron ingots. This can be done with furnaces.
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Just like the errors you often see in news reports of some event you directly know about, I'm sure everything else is 100% correct... ("'Twas ever thus.")

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Oh, ChatGPT even knows about building things. It knows about how to play the game. If you ask it to build a circuit controlled balanced train loading or unloading station, it will explain in great detail how to place belts, wires and buildings. Unfortunately, it cannot output pictures and blueprints. It even apologizes that it cannot.

You can also ask it to explain how to build an (impossible) 3-to-5 lane-balanced belt balancer, and it will answer how to place every belt and splitter. The only letdown is that it actually doesn't work what it describes.

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[Koub] Moving this to off topic, because it's more a post on ChatGPT than a post on Factorio itself.

Bear in mind that ChatGPT (and all its current competitors) is basically a bullshit generator that's actually very good at generating text that seems to make perfect sense. It's so good that it gives the impression it's able to converse, when in reality, it's designed to generate the text the user is actually expecting.

Note : in this context, I use bullshit not as a criticism, but as its original meaning : these text generators are programmed to answer what their user is expecting, that sounds sensible if not true, but with in reality absolutely no by-design constraint on telling the truth. At most their respective dev teams tried to add a layer of answer the right things on some slippery slopes like climate change, and stuff. but the protection is not that good, and it's still doable to engage them in these directions if creative enough in the question.

TLDR : don't expect truth from ChatGPT and its siblings, just expect things that sound right. Thins includes subjects like Factorio.
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