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red underground are really expensive - is this a bug or feature?
and to get 40 GW into one assembler in 0.5 second is not so easy as well.

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This is intentional. Since red and blue under ground belts now reach farther than they did before, they had to have their costs increased to remain "more expensive" than their yellow counter parts. I also don't see the need to get 40 gears into the assembler "within 0.5 seconds".

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Have not had trouble keeping production up on these.

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I dont see any reason to produce 4 of these per second becauce I will never ever use them up near that fast.

Also if I could it would probably kill my factory instantly... maybe.

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Heh. I'm of the thought that a lot of recipes that take 0.5 seconds should really take a lot longer. That said, yes, while max speed is important for, say, red belts, you don't need anywhere near that many tunnels.
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Ranakastrasz wrote:Heh. I'm of the thought that a lot of recipes that take 0.5 seconds should really take a lot longer. That said, yes, while max speed is important for, say, red belts, you don't need anywhere near that many tunnels.
True. It's not actually important that it takes 0.5s to produce a Red UnderThingie, but it is one of many cases where it appears as if the devs couldn't be arsed to actually think about how long it should take, and therefore just left it at the default value, 0.5s.

3-4s would really make more sense. And as you say, it's not making any difference in the grand scheme of things, because they're not needed in very large quantities and can easily be produced in advance of need.

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They are called Underneathies, I believe
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Many items are 0.5s to benefit hand crafting. If you make it 3+ seconds each then that makes better sense for automation, but would be really annoying for hand crafting. While this game is about automation on the whole, you will still often need/want to craft items by hand on occasion and certain ones like these underground belts are a perfect fit for being a high speed craft time.

If you look at the initial 0.15 patch notes you'll notice that they intentionally reduced a lot of craft times for similar items to accommodate easier hand crafting (items that you never need insane amounts of).

The crafting time for underground belts is appropriate and now also the cost is appropriate for how much distance you can cover with them.

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Hmmmm.



We need a switch, like Hard vs Easy crafting, to set crafting times for machine vs Player crafting then.

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Rockstar04 wrote:This is intentional. Since red and blue under ground belts now reach farther than they did before, they had to have their costs increased to remain "more expensive" than their yellow counter parts. I also don't see the need to get 40 gears into the assembler "within 0.5 seconds".
Ever heard about stack inserter? And of course you need to combine it with requester chest ;)

I get yoour point tho' but others explained reasons quite good.

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mexmer wrote:
Rockstar04 wrote:This is intentional. Since red and blue under ground belts now reach farther than they did before, they had to have their costs increased to remain "more expensive" than their yellow counter parts. I also don't see the need to get 40 gears into the assembler "within 0.5 seconds".
Ever heard about stack inserter? And of course you need to combine it with requester chest ;)

I get yoour point tho' but others explained reasons quite good.
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Rockstar04 wrote:
mexmer wrote:
Rockstar04 wrote:This is intentional. Since red and blue under ground belts now reach farther than they did before, they had to have their costs increased to remain "more expensive" than their yellow counter parts. I also don't see the need to get 40 gears into the assembler "within 0.5 seconds".
Ever heard about stack inserter? And of course you need to combine it with requester chest ;)

I get yoour point tho' but others explained reasons quite good.
I'm sorry my answer didn't meet your expectations. I will PM you all my replys for approval before I actually post them on the forums from now on.
Nvm. I was just reacting to 40 gears .... there is nothing wrong with your answer, have fun :mrgreen:

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one of the things a friend and me do is make a custom mod to make our our costs for items like this. its fairly easy to make a simple mod like that. a couple hours to setup, then only a few minutes to add each new recipie.

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Kelderek wrote:Many items are 0.5s to benefit hand crafting. If you make it 3+ seconds each then that makes better sense for automation, but would be really annoying for hand crafting. While this game is about automation on the whole, you will still often need/want to craft items by hand on occasion and certain ones like these underground belts are a perfect fit for being a high speed craft time.

If you look at the initial 0.15 patch notes you'll notice that they intentionally reduced a lot of craft times for similar items to accommodate easier hand crafting (items that you never need insane amounts of).

The crafting time for underground belts is appropriate and now also the cost is appropriate for how much distance you can cover with them.

Yep. I suspect this is also (atleast part of) the reason that productivity isn't allowed to be used on end-products, since value of prod modules in a recipe is related to resource consumption rate.

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I thought it was just forbidden for anything that you place on the map, because of the whole "You can't build half an inserter" thing. Not that its hardcoded or anything, but that was the impression I got. I mean, otherwise why can we use it in the rocket?
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Ranakastrasz wrote:I thought it was just forbidden for anything that you place on the map, because of the whole "You can't build half an inserter" thing. Not that its hardcoded or anything, but that was the impression I got. I mean, otherwise why can we use it in the rocket?
Not sure what you mean. We can't build half a green circuit either. Productivity just gives an extra unit for free everytime the purple bar completes. I'm talking more about gameplay balance than anything else. (Also, I think technically the productivity happens on production of rocket parts?)

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By increasing production time you will force your assembler consume power for that long which will lead to increased energy per item. And this is not always intended.

Anyways most of end products do not need production time balancing cause... They are end products and will not be produced 100% of time anyways. Balancing makes sense in intermediates and science items which will be produced mostly indefinitely.

And for end products which you might need lots of by some chance (like belts, inserters etc) it makes sense to leave production time low despite of resources consumed. Its is actually your problem to feed end products with resources.

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iceman_1212 wrote:
Ranakastrasz wrote:I thought it was just forbidden for anything that you place on the map, because of the whole "You can't build half an inserter" thing. Not that its hardcoded or anything, but that was the impression I got. I mean, otherwise why can we use it in the rocket?
Not sure what you mean. We can't build half a green circuit either. Productivity just gives an extra unit for free everytime the purple bar completes. I'm talking more about gameplay balance than anything else. (Also, I think technically the productivity happens on production of rocket parts?)
I mean that the list of recipes you can use productivity on excludes items you can place in the world as a rule, and that there doesn't seem to be another factor except for the new nuclear recipes.
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