Another suggestion for the expansion.
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:54 am
I would like to suggest some kind of incinerator/vent/flare stack to be added to vanilla.
I have found that in Vanilla Factorio, it is rather difficult to get rid of unwanted byproducts, such as fluids, when you do not have storage capacity for them and will not be using them. This can lead to a logjam where you need more Heavy Oil (for an example) but you can't get it due to your Medium and Light Oil storages being full. While you can exchange fluids for other fluids, for example changing Medium Oil and Light Oil to Heavy, in many cases this is impractical, so the only solution is to build more storages for the oils you can't use, and these can add up VERY quickly. A more practical solution is needed - that's where the flare stack comes in, allowing you to burn off products you don't have storage for. Later, when you do have storage, you can remove the flare stack.
Similarly with ore patches, sometimes you have a mixed ore patch and you only want one type of ore from it. In this case, an incinerator would be useful to remove the ores you don't want from the conveyor line without having to process them into unneeded products.
An incinerator or flare stack would be a practical way to enable you to destroy any unwanted byproducts, liquid or solid, that you do not have storage for at the current time. This would alleviate logjams and other situations, and keep storage required to a minimum.
I have found that in Vanilla Factorio, it is rather difficult to get rid of unwanted byproducts, such as fluids, when you do not have storage capacity for them and will not be using them. This can lead to a logjam where you need more Heavy Oil (for an example) but you can't get it due to your Medium and Light Oil storages being full. While you can exchange fluids for other fluids, for example changing Medium Oil and Light Oil to Heavy, in many cases this is impractical, so the only solution is to build more storages for the oils you can't use, and these can add up VERY quickly. A more practical solution is needed - that's where the flare stack comes in, allowing you to burn off products you don't have storage for. Later, when you do have storage, you can remove the flare stack.
Similarly with ore patches, sometimes you have a mixed ore patch and you only want one type of ore from it. In this case, an incinerator would be useful to remove the ores you don't want from the conveyor line without having to process them into unneeded products.
An incinerator or flare stack would be a practical way to enable you to destroy any unwanted byproducts, liquid or solid, that you do not have storage for at the current time. This would alleviate logjams and other situations, and keep storage required to a minimum.