I realized that a simple sorting strategy (as in "closest first") even as an "add on" to my idea of limiting the range, is not optimal. What you really want (in addition to range limiting) is for the bots to take the average motion of the player character over time into account. ...

The alternate recipies are optimal depending on the resource availability. E.g. in a level with lots of iron you would go a different route than you would in a level that is lacking iron. I concede the point - when there is sufficient pressure on a resource (despite them technically being infinite ...

I see another way to come to a very similar result: We permanently introduce multiple alternative recipes to obtain the same item by different pathways. Except that doesn't achieve the desired result at all . This is the problem as originally stated: So it is a battle, who has the best blueprints l...

So it is a battle, who has the best blueprints loaded from Internet, instead of who is the best factorio player. Therfore I would like to see an option to restrict blueprint import, so that only blueprints are allowed which are created in current pvp session. The problem you describe is real but th...

Also this would make it even more important to have personal roboports handle ghosts in order of distance. Because with the inability to recharge by cheat the longer flight path would costs again in longer recharge time. I agree some supporting feature(s) would be nice, though the form I would pref...

It would be nice if one could recharge from the power grid so personal roboports can still be used pre fusion generator." After a long hiatus from the game, I've just been playing an 0.16.16 game, and I have to reiterate how eminently usable personal robots are with modular armor. Besides some...

However, this makes it even more important that the gameplay is well balanced and that there are no exploits in the game, which would give the exploiting side an unfair advantage. What, you mean broken mechanics like being able to command 40 robots at the early modular armor stage by stuffing 4 rob...

As many others have noticed, the cliffs look like walls rather than cliffs. (This is "messes with your brain" levels of bad, like a mild form of trying to play an RTS in an M. C. Escher drawing.) When terrain discontinuities and cliffs are present in the same place, the terrain discontinui...

math Your math is kind of irrelevant, part 1: His issue is that his batteries are dead. And you can see in the video @7:18 that he kills his batteries by deconstructing trees at the full distance of his roboports (and then some since he runs away from the bots). That's the exact kind of inefficienc...

TL;DR Don't recharge construction/logistics bots when they are mined. What When you mine a bot, it forgets how much charge it had. This effectively recharges them to full charge without actually spending any energy (and without any charge time). The suggestion is that bots should always remember ho...

I had to change the marathon-ness down to normal settings, as I don't have anything to work with that. I don't know what you mean by "I don't have anything to work with that". (This is a vanilla map - it requires absolutely no mods. And even with expensive recipes and tech it's a fairly e...

I have yet to do this. I thought seeing a train cut in half by another was funny, but this is even funnier for some reason. Good thing he safely stowed away all that landfill right before taking off.

Toawa wrote:That being said, there's no need to be snide about it.

I provide a sincere and informative response and in return you accuse me of having behaved badly somehow. I'm pretty sure that was not necessary.

Beeblebrox wrote:You must try this map!

...he says, while neither posting a map string nor indicating which version of Factorio was used to generate it.

A bit curious about one thing Even if you care about save-game performance, those things you bring up won't even budge the needle. My best guess is Factorio's save-game time (the serialization part which is when the game is paused) is something like 90% memory latency, and a good chunk (maybe half)...

With fork() on the other hand you just copy the page tables to mark memory copy-on-write. Clarification: At a hardware level, the pages are not marked copy-on-write -- they are marked read-only. The OS remembers internally (purely in software) that these pages are to be treated as copy-on-write. Th...

Autosave related: Shouldn't the default autosave interval be just increased, as dying doesn't mean end of the game now? I've been playing since 0.11.x and I thought your default auto-save setting was excessive even back then with death = death, and upping that interval is always one of the things I...

The game isn't laid out in a way to make saving efficient. It's laid out in a way to make runtime performance efficient. I really don't think you're going to convince me that's not a false dichotomy, especially when Factorio's memory bandwidth numbers show that it is not "laid out in a way to ...

Factorio's hunger for memory bandwidth would mean you've just created a new problem No, Factorio doesn't have a "hunger for memory bandwidth". On any reasonable modern box Factorio only uses a small fraction of the available memory bandwidth. Factorio is memory *latency* limited. That thi...

It already works this way. According to what you yourself have said, no, it doesn't work the way I described - Factorio doesn't do the most important part. That is, during the pause what Factorio does is a bazillion inefficient tiny (object-level) copies when what it should be doing is a small numb...