TL;DR
In the 0.16.20 update, the Factorio developers fixed some of the problems with priority splitter throughput, but some problems still remain.(I suspect that the "input priority" feature is working as intended, which is why I posted this as a Suggestion instead of a Bug Report.)
What ?
I want to be able to build this 5-to-6-belt splitter:- Desired 5 to 6 belt splitter
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To see the problem, let's look at a small example. In the example below, the top belt should not have iron plates leaking onto it:
- Picture of undesired behavior
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However, sometimes the iron fails to pass through the splitter, causing the iron plates to "back up", i.e. they don't have full throughput. To make this more obvious, I have included the splitter on the left (this splitter is working properly
). If the iron plates were not backing up, then there would be no leakage onto the top-most belt.
