I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around why this feature is eliciting such a divided response. It's bringing a very commonly accepted feature from countless other modern games and causing factorio players to think about how to deal with automating it. Having to do the math around if it...

I really like this idea. To the people saying that it's not how real factories work... I wonder if you've ever worked on/in a real factory? I mean, neither have I, but I've watched How It's Made, and I have common sense: Every automated system ever works within a certain tolerance . Any large manufa...