I think the "Cost" should be in the charging... I was researching batteries (Again) recently, this time nothing to do with factorio. Did you know it costs 150% of the energy to charge a NiMH battery than it actually stores? For example, if it can store 3000Ahs, it takes 4500Ahs to charge ...

I would love to see some kind of lossy early game energy storage like flywheels take the current accumulators place, and then have the current accumulator moved up the tech tree and made significantly more expensive to make.

I'm updated to version 12.8 (Instaled as version 12 and updated with the patcher) and I just had this happen.

MisterSpock wrote:

LordFedora wrote:Isn't blue ~30? i thought it was 3x yellow

yes, but in real its ~ 25 or less cause, the lack of compression

To get full cocmpression on a single blue belt you need to use a splitter to combine 2 into 1 if you are loading it with inserters

There is no way to make it configurable???

I mean I'm sure I will get used to it, but I dont want to get used to it

Xterminator wrote:Remember when a box of items would explode all over the ground if you tried to pick it up and your inventory was full.
That was one of my favorites.

And remember when that could competely lock up you game?

I believe that is a vanilla feature, you should also be able to burn small electric poles

I'm trying to figure out why the unload stations use requester chests. Does the fact that a bunch of coal is requested to a chest keep a fast inserter from bringing other things into that chest? I'm pretty sure its just to pull out any ores that somehow end up in the logistics system get brought to...

Gus_Smedstad wrote:...issues of unpredictable car order ...

This was the major deal breaker when I tried switching to double headed trains

I could be very wrong, but I was always under the impression that for trains to use mutiple stations with the same name, they have to be aligned like this


==============X=====

==============X=====

Where X is the station

Are you and your server on the same network and your friends connecting over the internet?

NoPantsMcDance wrote:I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I get a much different error. The server starts up fine but the instant I connect the server crashes and gives this error.
http://pastebin.com/4VUS9aWq

I just want to bump this, since its the exact same error I'm getting (I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.2LTS as well)

Ha, no at this point I dont think they will ever make it. Which, honestly, would be the best if I had to decide it. Because how is Valve supposed to meet all the expectations the players may or may not have accumulated about a sequel that has been rumored for more than 10 years. Right... they can't...

I'm getting ready to start a new play throught and would love to give this a shot!

Phe0n1x wrote:

MeduSalem wrote:

Rockstar04 wrote:Half Life 3 Soon

Has it been confirmed yet?

Well, your post ID starts with a 9 and nine is divisible by 3 and also gives a result of 3. Thus HL3 CONFIRMED.

In the real world though, it has not been confirmed.

Ha, no at this point I dont think they will ever make it.

Pouf wrote:Agreed. Nowadays people take too many things for granted.
Even Blizzard is giving reasonable estimates now... We live in a dark time...
At least there is still Valve....

Half Life 3 Soon

Pretty good for a first factory but there are a lot of inefficient things here. 1)If you put your iron ore on one side of the belt you could put your coal on the other side of the belt and then just add regular inserters and they would grab which ever they needed(you could do this with your copper ...

There are so many ways to make any factory, but for just getting the game today, you are already picking up on stuff just fine, You should checkout the Clever builds thread if you want some good guidance on some of the coolor, more complex things you can do

How do they say: Everything worth doing is worth overdoing? If a player choose to massproduce an expensive, limited in cargo, method of transport, then thats on him. But sooner or later the UPS will enevetably went down to a point where it's not funny anymore, because of the mass of entitys and pat...

On the topic of belts, here's something I came up with that I suppose there's a chance someone else might be interested in. While it is somewhat large and unwieldy due to the extra bits of track needed to cause side-loading, it is smaller than the first two versions I tried. The purpose is to accep...