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Well, the inserter factories didn't really work. It seems to work okay up until the track straightens out. In the screen shot it looks like the straight portion was working okay but it really wasn't. There may be some use with the diagonal ore line - not sure. But I think if it is useful at all it will be for diagonal transport only - if the belts ever straighten out then the 3 lanes collapse into two lanes and two of the lanes sort of get stuck on each other and travel very slowly. Will keep playing around and see if I find anything useful with it.MF- wrote:Oh, you can overload a belt like that?
No it doesn't. Stuff that's placed on a belt like that will effectively block the belt. The misplaced items move at a crawl, even blocking everything in one or both of the proper lanes behind it.MF- wrote: That sure improves belt throughput for longer-distance transport
That is only true if your straighten the belt out. On diagonal track the misplaced items travel just fine. You still have bendy track compression issues but this should help counteract that some. Not sure if there are many practical implications or not - just playing around at the moment.Boogieman14 wrote:No it doesn't. Stuff that's placed on a belt like that will effectively block the belt. The misplaced items move at a crawl, even blocking everything in one or both of the proper lanes behind it.