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Beacons are one of those things with a mechanic that clearly makes sense at the low end and becomes weird at the limits. Sure, something which can spread the effects of an expensive Speed 3 module over multiple assembly machines makes sense in terms of resource conservation, but for megabases the re...

TLDR; The real problem with bots isn't that they are too powerful, it's that they aren't as fun as they should be. I think this is a good take on it. I had a similar conception of the problem, and landed on a couple of very similar solutions, in this post in the original FFF thread. Idea #1: Robopo...

I use (modded) loaders, but mainly for "inline" buffer storage. That makes for some better setups and layouts than inserters. I can also think of some interesting things you could do if you let inserter filters be circuit-programmable. I don't think that they either clutter up the menu or ...

For me the problem with belts versus bots is trying to build something like an 8x8 beaconed green circuit layout that scales to a reasonable length (So most of the beacons are affecting 8 assemblers). Blue belts just don't have enough throughput, and there just isn't enough room for enough extra be...

Already been suggested a bunch of times, but +1 anyway.

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In general, I am in favour of anything which exposes more info to the circuit network and gives more granular control over managing your factory.

Lots of people have explained why this kind of change a) opens up new ways of working, b) makes certain common tasks doable without having to resort to multi-combinator setups. "I can do what I want already" doesn't really answer this.

Could you do this with circuit entities and signals? EG, a combinator type thing which reads the properties of the train in a given signal block - train name/id, composition, contents, fuel level etc. Link that to signals and/or stations ahead in order to set them to on/off. That might even be modda...

Also, being able to read chain signals (including which ones are on blue) could open up some really interesting programming possibilities. Probably. Can't think of any right now but this is factorio and I'm sure someone will do something fascinating with that functionality

mrvn wrote:Seems like a trivial mod.

Simply add a bunch of recipes "1 Plastic -> 0 Token", "1 Plastic -> 1 Token".

Personally I like using fish as tookens.

Yeah, this. Maybe take it as a chance to put a toe into mod development for the first time?

One of the worst tendencies of game players is to cry "dumbing down!!!" at a change to make things more easily readable and undertandable. If the information is already there, and there's no in-game reason to make getting it challenging, surfacing that information and enabling the player t...

Yeah, an "else" doesn't really add much to a GUI.

Something else that would be handy with separable outputs - being able to connect to an assembling machine (or chemical plant or oil refinery) and have it output "products" on one wire and "ingredients" on another. At the moment I use a mod that adds combinators to do this. To me...

I appreciate that, but a) shrinking things down and making them faster is already accepted as part of the tech progression - fast inserters, steel furnaces, red and blue belts etc can't do anything that the predecessor's can't do, they just do more of it in a given space. b) several aspects of this ...

Making things smaller is a valid tech tree level of progression in my view. After all, you can make any number of iron plates with stone furnaces and yellow belts, so why do you need blue belts and electric furnaces with speed modules? You can "already do it" with existing technology. Fact...

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TL;DR Higher levels of circuit wiring and multi-function combinators, based on and expanding on ideas here and here . What? As technology in "the real world" improves, you get both increased capacity and miniaturisation. Electronics get faster, denser, and smaller. I propose a similar kin...

You're talking about a "disk" of some description, it sounds like. Something that stores a state and can be read out? Like a portable constant combinator? So, if I'm understanding right, this disk would have "wood=100" or "red=1" stored on it, and this would be added to...

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