I am sorry for the loss of your hardware and I can understand that you are frustrated by what happened.

That said, you have a very flawed understanding of how computer hardware and software works.

The bus is a building style for convenience and expandability, not efficiency or cost effectiveness. Items on a saturated belt are never used. For every item consumed on one end, one is directly produced on the other end (otherwise the belt would not be saturated). It is a huge buffer to instantly t...

people tend to forget what DLC is... DLC is not money. DLC is DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT. Strictly speaking you are right, but language is a living thing. As you stated, companies like EA have warped the meaning of the word and unfortunately it is utilised in the EA way more often than in the original me...

Aidan647 wrote:Changed the maximum number of electric poles that can be connected to one entity from 255 to 65535.

8bits (1 byte) changed to 16bits (2 bytes) by the look of it.

Adding the ability to throw a full stack of an item (IE 200 electrical circuits, 100 Metal Plates or 50 Ore) as a single unit on a belt would cause belts to FAR exceed the max capacity of bots It would also make belts compete on throughput with trains, thus creating an imbalance between trains and ...

Perhaps down the road a factorio 2, but no DLC please. As far as I am concerned, the whole idea of DLC should die in a fire.

Congrats on the new job @Bilka.

A very good idea, I would like to see this added.

Tapestry

Blackboxing a simulated factorissimo factory only works when it has no side-effects. For example, a factory does not need to output anything, it can store end-products internally. If the internal state of the factory matters in any way (buffer chests, circuit network state, non-constant belt saturat...

This has been proposed many, many, many times before (read the monster threads about those FFFs about it). There is even one or more mods that do this, but I forgot which ones. I am sure someone else can point you to them.

I'm really at a loss to understand how anyone can think the original brightness is better, other than simply being in shock at seeing something different than what they're used to. I didn't start out with it that bright, but after I got used to my first smaller increase in brightness, it clearly ne...

Upgrading a belt or assembler completely destroys the finely tuned throughput calculations of a sub-factory module. So if implemented in any form, this should not be fully automatic.

Currently the only way to remove a signal out of a set is be setting its value to zero, explicit zeros would break that. Edit: I guess you could add a Each != 0 decider after the arith+diode, but it doubles the latency and adds a third combi to the single signal filter case. Edit2: actually it coul...

I still think your modifications look unpleasantly bright. I hope this idea does not happen.

You're assuming that a signal of 0 has a value of 0, that is not technically the case. Sure, you can add a condition for [signal] = 0, but actually the value is null. Basically those options only work for signals with a value, and nobody wants this to work any other way. Well, I am not so sure abou...

You can detect that an inserter is putting science into a lab. If you time the interval between insertions then you can detect when it exceeds some upper-bound to determine when research has stopped.

mp0011 wrote:Seriously...?

We are the baddies...

You kill entires alien cities, hunderds of little guys, living peacefully for ages, and you are complaining about some poles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

the belt is not fully compressed ;) Full compression by itself is not even a desirable property. You just want to prevent machines from stalling down the line which may or may not require full compression. Ideally your belts are as empty as possible without anything stalling, otherwise you are payi...