Simple Questions and Short Answers

[Mr. Tact]

Okay.. what am I being stupid about?

I am trying to use the Even Distribution mod to put ammo in my turrets when I press shift c -- which it seems to say it will do and I saw Nilaus do it in his SE play through. But it is not working for me. Do I have to have logistic slots researched? That's about the only I can see it might be.

[NineNine]

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23042

What this thread is for:

Simple questions relating to vanilla Factorio game play.

What this thread is not for:

Questions relating to MODS. Please use the relevant sub forum here.

[Mr. Tact]

Apologies for all the chaos caused by my question. Thank goodness we all survived.

For the record, I needed to set a logistics limit on my ammo so the mod could tell the ammo was "extra" and to be removed, including to turrers.

[FuryoftheStars]

Apologies for all the chaos caused by my question. Thank goodness we all survived.

For the record, I needed to set a logistics limit on my ammo so the mod could tell the ammo was "extra" and to be removed, including to turrers.

I don't know the answer to your question, and with indifference to the vanilla vs mod usage of this thread, in truth you would have a lot better luck getting answers to mod related questions either in the Mods subforum, or from that specific mod's discussion page (some have a thread here in the Mods subforum, but all have one in the mod portal).

[British_Petroleum]

when can i play with the new elevated rails?

[disentius]

nowhere:) the expansion is not out yet.

[vvildfire]

Hi all. I'm building my first big base, and now that I have a large main bus, I keep running into the issue of how to evenly split a single lane's worth of material off of it. For example, I want to make an accumulator assembly line, so I need to split one lane of batteries and one lane of iron plates off of the respective lines from the bus, and then merge these two lanes onto one belt and run that to the assembly line. Up until now, I have been using a splitter side-loading into an underground belt, but this runs into the issue of unbalancing the lanes of the belt it siphons from. Is there a compact way to siphon evenly from both lanes, so that it doesn't back up one half of the belt?

Example of the issue I'm having:

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[SoShootMe]

Is there a compact way to siphon evenly from both lanes, so that it doesn't back up one half of the belt?

Note your example can be made more compact by placing the underground directly after the splitter.

An input-balanced lane balancer like viewtopic.php?p=215565#p215565 ensures input lanes are taken from evenly.

You can alternatively use an output-balanced lane balancer (https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancer_mech ... _balancers) either to re-balance lanes of the bus belt after you split from it, or where you load the bus to ensure supply can go to either lane.

[mmmPI]

Are single-lane belts UPS-optimized?

Can't seem to find an answer to this. If one lane on a belt is compacted and the other is empty, is this optimized the way full belts are, or a UPS nightmare? I don't want to add a balancer "just in case".

In short, i don't think it would be a UPS nightmare to use only one lane. I don't think it make any significant difference for UPS, as if using 2 halves from different belts is roughly the same as using the 2 halves of the same belts. You can see some designs using 2 halves from different belts scoring well in this thread :
viewtopic.php?f=193&t=100763

[spinba11]

I’ve had a few looks but can’t see anything, is there a setting that changes an item to a ghost if you run out when placing?

[picklock]

Yes, there is a setting. in Settings -> Interface -> Interaction there you can find the checkbox Pick ghost item if no items are available. Ich activated then ghost will be placed if the entity is not in your inventory.

[spinba11]

That setting is already on, wha I mean is if I’m dragging a line of 10 belts and only have 5, place the last 5 as ghosts.

[FritzHugo3]

I have this all automatism of. if i want ghosts there is a shift key .
Also i hate that underground belts build automaticle or the "smart" build mode.

But it's VERRY cool that the developer let us people the option to make it so how every player want - this is great.
(Sometimes i wish me a shortkey to activate the automatic unterground belt option without goung in the option)

[Kyralessa]

Also i hate that underground belts build automaticle or the "smart" build mode.

There's an option called Smart belt dragging that enables that. So if you don't like it, you can uncheck that option to disable it.

[FritzHugo3]

Also i hate that underground belts build automaticle or the "smart" build mode.

There's an option called Smart belt dragging that enables that. So if you don't like it, you can uncheck that option to disable it.

It is unchecked, i tolted i never want this autoatation stuff default. It is a miss understanding. i dosent need the help i want answered the other post

(Sometime so 10%-20% it would be coul there where a short cut to change the modes - i have written it in the suggestion forum)

[Pi-C]

Quick question about multiplayer games, since I currently have no way to test this myself: Suppose a player is leaving the game (no mods), will the player-character remain in the world, or will it be removed and recreated next time the player joins the game? Are you aware of any mods that change the default behaviour? I need this for a mod I'm working on …

[Bilka]

Quick question about multiplayer games, since I currently have no way to test this myself: Suppose a player is leaving the game (no mods), will the player-character remain in the world, or will it be removed and recreated next time the player joins the game? Are you aware of any mods that change the default behaviour? I need this for a mod I'm working on …

The character gets stashed and is no longer present in the world. The entire state of it will be recreated when the player rejoins. Since you mention modding - that's what associated characters are for, they get logged out together with the main character when the player leaves the game.

(You should be able to locally test multiplayer by using two instance of the game (from the zip install), not logging in and hosting a LAN game.)

[Pi-C]

Quick question about multiplayer games, since I currently have no way to test this myself: Suppose a player is leaving the game (no mods), will the player-character remain in the world, or will it be removed and recreated next time the player joins the game?

The character gets stashed and is no longer present in the world. The entire state of it will be recreated when the player rejoins. Since you mention modding - that's what associated characters are for, they get logged out together with the main character when the player leaves the game.

Thanks for the answer! So if I empty the inventories of player.character when defines.events.on_pre_player_left_game and the player rejoins, player.character would still have empty inventories, right?

(You should be able to locally test multiplayer by using two instance of the game (from the zip install), not logging in and hosting a LAN game.)

I'm on my laptop now, running two instances of the game there would be quite a burden on the poor thing (especially as it's currently running on battery power). I'll try hosting the game on my main computer and connecting from the laptop when I'm back home.

[Bilka]

Thanks for the answer! So if I empty the inventories of player.character when defines.events.on_pre_player_left_game and the player rejoins, player.character would still have empty inventories, right?

Yes, that should work.

[Pi-C]

So if I empty the inventories of player.character when defines.events.on_pre_player_left_game and the player rejoins, player.character would still have empty inventories, right?

Yes, that should work.

Great!

The character gets stashed and is no longer present in the world. The entire state of it will be recreated when the player rejoins. Since you mention modding - that's what associated characters are for, they get logged out together with the main character when the player leaves the game.

Also, thanks for the reminder that I must consider the associated characters as well! Almost forgot about these …