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Serious question: Does anyone know where to find a good "walkthrough" of making yt-videos? yt itself seems a bit shitty about explaining how to do it and that it's possible with a whole bunch of adobe programs is clear, but how does it the ordinary factorio ytber? I'm not going to open a new million-sub-channel, but sometimes a short video could explain more then multiple pictures. But how?

• You also waste capsules by overflowing the maximum follower count
• Instead of just adding miners at the border of the field, the earnings would improve much longer by moving the middle miners and adding one there. Then the existing (and rebuilded) miner has still 25 oretiles and new one too. In your solution the outer miners will run out unequaly to the rest of the miners. This is a stage for a ore field where it is good to place as much miners as possible into the center (multiple miners help to mine the same tiles which are most likely still fuller than the edgetiles) and to make shure to cover every tile of the field with a miner (or its overlaping border) to not have to move them again just to mine a few overseen tiles later.
• You see no gaps on this belt? Man, you are blind
  (For the transport from the station I would suggest a double belt (passing west between the lake and the refineries!) and a little buffer at the entrance to the smelters, so they can be fed without an influence of the waves coming from the unloiding.)

Trains

Yeah I see these problems too, but if they don't do it good, they have to suffer for it. It's like still not even having an existing roboport at the copper outpost (and the roboportconnection for the oil outpost was ... just working )

A possibility for the main station would be a one way circle, perhaps around this bullet turret cemetery (counterclockwise). For that every line has to have a loop, which are 4 curved rails and 10-20 straight rails. That would reduce the second locomotive, gives a flexibility with train lenghts and doesn't include a full doubling of all the rails. But the trains can be fueld at the same place and they can stack up in a line and move in (with proper signal settings) just as the other trains has left the station and they don't have to wait until the other train has done the half of it's ride.

I think the unloading has to rely on belts. They never invested in the higher robot-researches. They are slow and can not carry that much. By traveling long distances with that much stuff the logistic system will break down. And without rearanging the two smelting areas into one it is better to hold on the situation of different ore belts and not only different plate belts. The unloading distances for the robots have to be short. But yes, they can unload it to different belts, no need for a seperate unloading platform. With a buffer of oil barrels a oil train (that also could drive to both outposts) could be unloaded in 5 seconds.

• Who said that you need a line of roboports to protect an outpost? Alex did it, Infectum said it, ... Take one roboport, put 50 construction robots in it, set a storage chest in the area, put 2-3 stacks of walls and repair packs in it, done! (No automatic refilling, but better as this "oh, a damaged wall. Let's double it up"
  (What is zero times two? Still zero!)
• Use Ctrl + Click to move everything of an item type in or out of a chest...
• There is one coal miner and it has even nearly dried out. Instead of setting the coal-requests higher (what would be good because the travel distances leads to a empty requester-chest) you moved the coal in masses which will lead to a pause for the robots, a unrecognised drying out of the miner and after requester has putted everything out and requested the last stacks of the dryied out miner plastic-production will be not existing. Four miners into two providers set on the coal field would probably solve this problem for a long time.
• Your sushi-circle really gets boring. Don't you realize that really nobody takes notice of it? So if you want to stick to it, why don't you half-automate it? Put a requester for fish there. They will clumb up or spread according to the track. It doesn't matter where you let them fall. Then the next times you can put the fishs in every provider or storage chest and your sushi-circle will get filled up.
• Rockets are really not the problem. There are 50 in the system yet and the production of it is idle. When the productivity 3s are made, rocket defense is ready to go (research will then already be finished)
• Everytime I hear something like
  "we need more advanced circuits"
  I'm afraid of a continuation with
  "so let's just copy these assemblers with a blueprint to make more advanced circuits"
• Look at the requesters to notice shortages. If there have to be two items stacked up because of the requestings and there is only one item shown, then you can't say that they are waiting on nothing.
• If
  plastic
  -production was a problem (
  and will be again soon
  ), and the production now leads to a filled belt, why don't you just set up a second provider to empty the belt (or change it completely to logistic transport)? Maybe the grabing from the belt is also a shortage (
  what would be seen if advanced circuits would not have to wait for normal circuits
  )
• Your chest setup is ..(ok, formulate it nicer).. ehm has has really big craplike failure.
  Without a limit in the steel chests there would be an endless production of rockets (because they can never catch up with the outtaking to over 100 and rockets in the steel and requester chest are not counted. So the rocket production will be going until there are three stacks in the steel chest, the requested 10 in the requester (limit of stacks has no effect), 50 in the production-provider (or the system in a whole) and the output stack in the assembler).
• "I don't need any" (changing the request of the chest)
• The whole episode still has the same problems like so many episodes before: Speed is not the problem, the amount of stuff is. Rearanging shortage-items without solving the problem, putting speed modules everywhere (specially in assemblers that are already waiting on stuff), ... This is so frustrating

DerivePi wrote:... the players now know how to use empty barrels (properly - anyone know where the barrel went?)....
Great series. Thanks to all of you!

-root wrote:You know, coming here and watching Josh rage is nearly as fun as actually playing in the hydra dilemma

JoshLittle wrote:This is so frustrating

JoshLittle wrote:

-root wrote:You know, coming here and watching Josh rage is nearly as fun as actually playing in the hydra dilemma

JoshLittle wrote:This is so frustrating

Dude, that's not raging, that's sadness

keyboardhack wrote:I wish i could watch the hydra dilemma, but i can't as i can't take watching all the fail that's constantly happening.
Half of you don't even know how trains work...

PharAway wrote:

keyboardhack wrote: As someone who likes to watch LPs that is what I look for. When I want ideas on being efficient and "not fail" I'll look for tutorials or at a wiki. The surprise when you find something doesn't/does work is what makes live commentary. I've often thought about doing an "efficiency" study and doing post commentary with sped up gameplay to showcase the communities pooled ideas.