Hello all. Its been a long time. I've been working on this for a while, and thought id share the spaghetti madness. I was attempting to create a compact factory capable of producing 1 of every science continuously. If fully upgraded with blue belts and lvl 3 assemblers it SHOULD produce 5 of each sc...

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[...]The issue at hand is : Turret creep renders all the shotguns, machine guns, tanks, and cars pointless. It is better in every way to just turret creep, [...] yeah no. - while you turret creep one nest, i'm annihilating ten or more with nukes and/or combat bots. - I find joy in rolling through n...

So. I couldn't stop thinking about it, forgive the ramblings. The issue at hand is : Turret creep renders all the shotguns, machine guns, tanks, and cars pointless. It is better in every way to just turret creep, and this strat is viable, almost from the start. Having a delay on turrets is nearly po...

At this point. I only see 2 "solutions" to turret creep. 1. Make early weapons a better option. Which would make biters not an issue sooner. 2. Disallow building in range of a biter base. Which people will complain about arbitrary restrictions. Or just leave it be, as the moment one has ar...

The main issue I see,is this would completely overhaul the game. Its kinda like in spore where you spend the first half of the game building creatures, messing with parts and stats, then suddenly "psyche! Its an rts now :)" Its building a new game, before the first game is finished, and ju...

I do like the idea of a train manufacturing building. Mostly for the fact that if you can tell it to make a certain train config (i e. <Engine< wagon wagon wagon >Engine>) as well as pre-made stop setups, then you could hook it up to the logistics network, and, say, tell it to auto-build more trains...

I was suprisingly unaware that trains could push XD

Mostly because its never occurred to me to make a train like

[Wagon] <engine] [engine>


And at that point, is there any way to ensure the wagon always docks toward the correct side? (Aside from having it go between only 2 points. )

I don't exactly see how this can be used.

Since trains cant "push" wagons, how would you get a fluid wagon to the edge of a dead end?

I mean, you can build the wagon at the end, then send it off, but that limits it to a manual use.

If I may, I was recently working on a similar idea. You dont really need to read the contents of an entire belt. Its messy as all get out, but I've gotten away with just reading the 3 belts before a given assembler. Attatch that to the output arm. Enable if given product is 0. If given material loop...

Its an awesome and interesting idea, but I see one or two major issues. What happens when you have 2 or more dependencies available at once? Does it choose randomly, or the cheapest? Also, lets say you go straight to the rocket. Many researchs are stepping stones that teach you to automate certain p...

So. Skimming through, I noticed some concerns as to implimentation. 1. If it runs out of fuel in a tunnel.... Just make it continue forward until the powering engine is out. Or Allow fuel access to a train, from the entrance/exit of a tunnel. 2. If an entrance is destroyed with a train still in it.....

- Warehousing mods (there are several). They definitely have reports of UPS problems, but they have nice sizes and capacities. Does it prevent UPS problems if you limit the chest to small number of slots? It I think ways to program that kind of functionality, there should not be need for check forb...

I'd also like to add, just having a storage container that has a footprint bigger than 1X1 would open up a world of creative uses. For example, when loading up trains, its an absolute nightmare to load it up equally. In example, lets say I have 6 inserters ready to load a train from 6 chests. How ca...

I was going off the wiki. But yea, if the game allows for different stack sizes in different containers, why not have a specialized container with less slots but bigger stack size? The only issue I see (by which I mean, I as a player who has never delved into actual code) , they would have to modify...

I've seen the warehousing mod and heard horror stories of UPS drops. I like having larger stores, so I can completely mine out an area as quickly as possible, without waiting for a chance to consume that material. I.e. I like to mine more ore than I can smelt, so when I upgrade my smelting, its imme...

What? A 2x2 or 3x3 storage chest to hold more stuff (not more inventory slots) Why? So you can have more than 4 inserters filling and unloading it, ability to store more per tile, more interesting ways to split supplies. How? I now know that having more inventory slots on something kills UPS . Howev...

I admit, I dont like using cars as storage containers, it feels like im using an exploit more than a feature...


But even so, couldn't you just use blue belts? If you are really obsessive about transfer speed, you can even unload and load from both sides with belt spaghetti magic.

Bait seems interesting. I have seen biters attack the same spots over and over, increasing in attack each time, forcing players to layer defences in an arbitrary spot. It would be cool to mitigate that with bait to guide them more equally around the base, or to killing outposts. Though it could be o...

This isn't likely to ever happen due to the performance implications of making robots do those kinds of checks. Well, how do they do these checks normally? Couldnt you just put down a roboport, and say " dont connect to nearby networks" ? Or is it a system where bots look for any port in ...