After a year I played again, however I notice that for all my production lines helmod is trying to increase the "count" of the subassemblies.. This is not what I want, I want a count of "1", even if it means I have some extra input/output that I handle myself (using transport met...

this is a ~12k spm base, I did want to play in a somewhat difficult setting so I started as a deathworld, but with artillery 14 I pushed them now quite far back, so they're just idling for now.

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They only show what is the biggest number "entities" - which is true since, but I wish to know "hey is this old part of the base actually taking most cpu cycles, or am I going to optimize soething eless important, and are the heavy entity counts somewhere else".

Hey I have quite a large factory..

However I notice that the game is slowing down to 40-50 ups. I do not claim to have a good base whatsoever, however I before starting I would like to know *what* makes it slow.

Is there a heatmap-like function to show me what regions are most cpu intensive?

Well the problem for me is that I also need to read the content of the chests - so I can't just automate set the request for each chest from a single input point as I cannot do both things.

Currently I have to retype the value each time, I'm using constant combinators with LTN to provide ltn the information "what" it should request. What happens is that I have as output (say) "-200k coal". Then I want to change (having copied the area) the output to wood When I clic...

Well it doesn't, when I add back in the combinators - which have a "requesting xyz" value of 51k and a value threashold of -200k the trains still go there as if it's a provider - when there are only a few k items.

They are intended to make the train go to the exact station in the case of duplicate stations. You say this is an "ugly workaround", but what harm does it do? It doesn't affect the delivery in the slightest, it will still go the same route it did if it didn't have the temporary stop. The ...

Well I just notice that trains go to stations that are not providers - and thus don't insert items. I notice this happens when said station has a surplus of items (due to reasons) and then suddenly the stations automatically acts as provider, severely disrupting the whole network. Why does this happ...

I grew a bit tired of the constant attacks and having to repair walls constantly - so I disabled all special ais apart from "peaceful" just to see what was causing the constant attacks that never ended (without any nest in my pollution cloud). However the attacks keep coming, similarly I e...