Cars on Belt 1kspm module/megafactory

[Tekillaa]

Hello Factorio lovers and traffic jam fan ("cough")?!?

Here's the video clip I made with a terrible accent of mine subtitles available if it's to hard to understand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbQUpLXbGmU

This is possible thanks to the help of Allaizn, KnightElite and the Technical Factorio Discord!
Special thanks to the dev for this awesome game!

Cheers!

[Impatient]

How do you control the spacing between the cars?

I see cars which are stationary being released, when a next car arrives behind it. How do you detect an arriving car?

[Koub]

How do you control the spacing between the cars?

I see cars which are stationary being released, when a next car arrives behind it. How do you detect an arriving car?

https://youtu.be/GbQUpLXbGmU?t=55

[Tekillaa]

Thank you Koub for pointing the perfect time tag when I talk about it!

If I can add : the word "detect" that you use, I can't truely detect a car (without using additional inserter with specific item to tag a car/mod as inventory sensor), i got to set each stop so they release the car at the right time. To make the task easier, some pattern/distancing are repeating themselves , but for some section i got to test it with editor, stop the time in order to identify the right time lapse to set for the stop. I'm editing something gathering all I know/my findings, allaizn's advices about it and more...

[Impatient]

OK. got it. thx!

I find cars on belts intriguing, as the calculus shifts from items/sec on a belt to in what interval a container arrives and how long does it need to be un/loaded.