Yeah - some advantages and disadvantages to each. Beacons have a negligible impact on performance, so with less assemblers and inserters the first might work better. The second only has one roboport and a smaller area, however, which might help. I'm not certain of the relations between electric pole number and coverage area per and UPSAeternus wrote:You would need to test it. Gut instinct tells me 1 is more UPS friendly assuming you've got no power issues (low power causes beacons to need to recalculate). I think it heavily depends on the load of these too, how much time they are active. Also, with this many beacons around them, might wanna replace the yellow inserter with a blue.
1 has fewer inserters, assemblers, but is wider so bots have to travel further to deliver their stuff. Bot gridlock tanks UPS.
2 has more assemblers and inserters, more active objects thus, but a shorter travel path.
Personally I'd go for version 2 because it's easier to do a row of roboports above/below this setup. And it looks better visually... just my preference.
As I recall the devs have stated that it doesn't matter much how big the power grid is, as long as everything is connected. Separate power grids is UPS unfriendly. So I'll assume that, as long as all structures are powered and all poles are connected, UPS for the power grid is not a factor here.Jap2.0 wrote:Yeah - some advantages and disadvantages to each. Beacons have a negligible impact on performance, so with less assemblers and inserters the first might work better. The second only has one roboport and a smaller area, however, which might help. I'm not certain of the relations between electric pole number and coverage area per and UPS
Whilst I agree that you want to minimise the number of active bots, as well as the number of active inserters and assemblers, you need to consider this over the whole design, not just part of a design. Personally, for bot based red circuits I use one copper wire assembler outputting to wooden chests to both the left and the right. Then those chests can each feed one 2 red circuit assemblers to each side. (That way you have 1 copper wire assembler feeding 4 red circuit assemblers. Ratio purists might be turning in their graves, but it saves a lot of bot movement of copper wires).Aeternus wrote:The fewer logistic bots you can handle this with, the better the UPS will be, and in that respect design 2 has a definate leg up due to shorter distances.
Really good idea! I have 10k spm base and 6 ups/fps. i'm seriosly thinking about that.Zavian wrote: If you are really serious about which is better you need to build and then test the entire setup, including loading and unload stations. (If you are _really_ serious about max UPS efficiency, then you should use all stack inserters, and use circuit signals to control the output inserters (count game ticks), so they only swing when they can move a full 12 red circuits).
