Bob mods for 0.12 General Topic.

[CorrettoSambuca]

What I've found out in 0.11 after 80hours of gameplay is that robots are better to produce bob's circuits than belts.

Yep, but you need circuits to make robots

[Ackos]

The sulfur fields need to be turned on in the bobsores configs.

[SHiRKiT]

What I've found out in 0.11 after 80hours of gameplay is that robots are better to produce bob's circuits than belts.

Yep, but you need circuits to make robots

That's why I do in the following order:
- Just get from 4 to 8 eletronic circuits assemblers
- Convert every one of them into blue science
- Get robots tech
- Tech robots and logistics
- Build robots and roboports
- Redo the circuit production with robots only

[kiba]

What I've found out in 0.11 after 80hours of gameplay is that robots are better to produce bob's circuits than belts.

Yep, but you need circuits to make robots

That's why I do in the following order:
- Just get from 4 to 8 eletronic circuits assemblers
- Convert every one of them into blue science
- Get robots tech
- Tech robots and logistics
- Build robots and roboports
- Redo the circuit production with robots only

Very expensive and energy inefficient.

[bobingabout]

Build sideways.

There are some good examples of what people have done to make an expandable bob's circuits with belts doable.

[DerivePi]

What I've found out in 0.11 after 80hours of gameplay is that robots are better to produce bob's circuits than belts.

Yep, but you need circuits to make robots

That's why I do in the following order:
- Just get from 4 to 8 eletronic circuits assemblers
- Convert every one of them into blue science
- Get robots tech
- Tech robots and logistics
- Build robots and roboports
- Redo the circuit production with robots only

Bah! You guys and your robots - here is a small startup schematic for the Electronics Department in Bobs Mods - very simple* and should be mostly balanced for producing in proportion, 10 ckts, 3 adv ckts, 2 proc units and 1 adv proc unit (or whatever alternate names Bob gave them).

BOBS ELEC 1.jpg (585.9 KiB) Viewed 6859 times

You just need ferric chloride, water, H2SO4 and Nitrogen for fluids and stone, quartz, lead plate, raw wood, copper plate, tin plate, gold plate, coal, plastic and, for the module department at the other end of the electronics department, you will need aluminum plate

Anxiously waiting for 0.12 update (couldn't finagle the .RAR file to work)
*simple - as compared to developing real circuits on real bread boards

[orzelek]

Build sideways.

There are some good examples of what people have done to make an expandable bob's circuits with belts doable.

I'd say it's not the problem of logistics for me.

It's usually the problem of being literally stuck in game - there is no way to progress further until you build all of this. And biters are not waiting for you - you also have no access to modules to try and optimize your factory a bit.

It would be good to spread those requirements a bit between advanced and next circuit stage. For example by making adv circuit only use basic electronic components.

[CorrettoSambuca]

I'd say it's not the problem of logistics for me.

It's usually the problem of being literally stuck in game - there is no way to progress further until you build all of this

I agree! It's not the difficulty that puts me off, it's the difficulty spike.
Everyhing before this point can be easily dealt with using standard vanilla factorio knowledge/techniques/complexity, but those damn circuits immediately shoot the brainpower requirements through the ceiling.
Maybe having a resource-inefficient way of producing them for the early game, and a more resource-efficient production chain with later-game recipes and machines would help.

[DerivePi]

I'd say it's not the problem of logistics for me.

It's usually the problem of being literally stuck in game - there is no way to progress further until you build all of this

I agree! It's not the difficulty that puts me off, it's the difficulty spike.
Everyhing before this point can be easily dealt with using standard vanilla factorio knowledge/techniques/complexity, but those damn circuits immediately shoot the brainpower requirements through the ceiling.
Maybe having a resource-inefficient way of producing them for the early game, and a more resource-efficient production chain with later-game recipes and machines would help.

Of course the other way to look at it would be for Bob to add basic electronic components onto the ingredients for the initial circuit formula. That would mean one less production line that needs to be developed for the advanced circuits.

[CorrettoSambuca]

That would work too, yes. However as they are now they still fit the 3-2 setup for the vanilla greens.
Maybe substituting copper coils for basic components? I'm just throwing the suggestion out there, I don't have the actual recipes handy.

[SHiRKiT]

What I've found out in 0.11 after 80hours of gameplay is that robots are better to produce bob's circuits than belts.

Yep, but you need circuits to make robots

That's why I do in the following order:
- Just get from 4 to 8 eletronic circuits assemblers
- Convert every one of them into blue science
- Get robots tech
- Tech robots and logistics
- Build robots and roboports
- Redo the circuit production with robots only

Very expensive and energy inefficient.

Works like a charm and requires the least amount of infrastructure.

So Bob, any predictions when you'll have it 0.12 working?

[orzelek]

Using bots doesnt really help with reduction of the high complexity spike - maybe having ability to make 1-2 tiers of modules before blue science would help in keeping a progression and reducing the spike a bit.

[DerivePi]

The highlighted recipe is the full circuit recipe that Bob chose not to use. Instead, the "Base Circuit Board" is the recipe that is being used to replace "Green Circuits."

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[SHiRKiT]

Using bots doesnt really help with reduction of the high complexity spike - maybe having ability to make 1-2 tiers of modules before blue science would help in keeping a progression and reducing the spike a bit.

No it doesn't, they can only be built after the spike. I mean that after the spike is gone, I normally build the bots so I can increase my production capacity, since I can't get those things to be built in belts properly.

Need bobs for 0.12!

[aklesey1]

Bob what new BobTech mod do? I see new 2 science packs in editor

[bobingabout]

I'm getting pretty close now, most of them are complete.

The highlighted recipe is the full circuit recipe that Bob chose not to use.

I do actually use it, just not as much as I should. That's one of the things I plan to change, but, not for the 0.12 intial release.

[CartesianBear]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9vy343wd78he ... s.zip?dl=0

A zip file this time, of the latest edits.

You missed a closing } at the end of sulfur.lua, before the last closing parenthesis.

[SHiRKiT]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9vy343wd78he ... s.zip?dl=0

A zip file this time, of the latest edits.

You missed a closing } at the end of sulfur.lua, before the last closing parenthesis.

Although it is missing, for some reason it doesn't crash when I launch the game on my end.

[bobingabout]

it doesn't look like it's missing to me...


I may not be completely objective, because I'm half asleep, but it looks there to me.

[aklesey1]

1.245 Error Util.cpp:45: __bobwarfare__/data.lua:34: __bobwarfare__/prototypes/entity/turrets.lua:46: attempt to call global 'gun_turret_extension' (a table value)

This launch error with bobwarfare and treefarm AC is still alive, I understand that you're still working on a solution bob? I had installed your beta mods today