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I can't find any confirmation that they got changed for 0.13? Someone mentioned that they had changed it, but I can't find hard evidence.

This FFF says the devs MIGHT change it, but I can't find anything confirming it. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

FFF wrote:we are considering changing the way splitter works.

did this really need a separate thread? you'll literally find out in like, 3days or whatever.

mooklepticon wrote:I can't find any confirmation that they got changed for 0.13? Someone mentioned that they had changed it, but I can't find hard evidence.

This FFF says the devs MIGHT change it, but I can't find anything confirming it. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

FFF wrote:we are considering changing the way splitter works.

No.

daniel34 wrote:

mooklepticon wrote:I can't find any confirmation that they got changed for 0.13? Someone mentioned that they had changed it, but I can't find hard evidence.

This FFF says the devs MIGHT change it, but I can't find anything confirming it. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

FFF wrote:we are considering changing the way splitter works.

No.

Seriously? So it's still complete crap to split compressed belts?

Zeblote wrote:

daniel34 wrote:

mooklepticon wrote:I can't find any confirmation that they got changed for 0.13? Someone mentioned that they had changed it, but I can't find hard evidence.

This FFF says the devs MIGHT change it, but I can't find anything confirming it. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

FFF wrote:we are considering changing the way splitter works.

No.

Seriously? So it's still complete crap to split compressed belts?

What do you expect from splitting compressed belts?

This is what it looks like in 0.12 and will look like in 0.13:

Use one type of items and you will se what people expect.

daniel34 wrote:

Zeblote wrote:

daniel34 wrote:

mooklepticon wrote:I can't find any confirmation that they got changed for 0.13? Someone mentioned that they had changed it, but I can't find hard evidence.

This FFF says the devs MIGHT change it, but I can't find anything confirming it. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122

FFF wrote:we are considering changing the way splitter works.

No.

Seriously? So it's still complete crap to split compressed belts?

What do you expect from splitting compressed belts?

This is what it looks like in 0.12 and will look like in 0.13:

Put iron plates on both sides and you will see what I mean.

Koub wrote:

This

Factorio - bad bad splitter.jpg

This happens to most splitters I place (or at the very least, much more often than chance would allow for). It eventually settles down and evens out but it can take a dozen or more on one side, followed by another dozen or so (though usually less than the first ones), and then just a few. Something like this would be common output on a single line, coming out of a splitter:

S_-_-_-__----________--------------------------- <-This one came out first)

Checkbox on a splitter would be very handy telling it not to differentiate between left and right lane - would solve a lot of issues like that and will also allow small multi-belt balancers.

I recommend reading https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-122
At the end:

In light of all this information, we are considering changing the way splitter works. Possibly by making have an internal state per transport belt lane instead of per item. It will split each lane of each belt equally to the output.

So, maybe... or maybe not, who knows