Don't know how or when this guy got himself into this predicament, but he obviously doesn't know how to get out of it: The save has replay enabled, so maybe you can find out how he got there.

Is that because they actually take a left turn/the inner circle when they do a U-turn? Yes. I'm currently trying to redesign it so the trains entering the junction in a left turn don't block the exit to their immediate right... OK I've fixed it so that the blocking no longer occurs. This had the si...

It's an unbuffered junction governed by chain signals, so it shouldn't ever deadlock, so long as the exit lanes remain unobstructed. I don't have a good way to measure throughput since there isn't a neat tool (like the 4-way throughput tester) that will work properly on this thing; there can technic...

As far as I'm aware, no-one's posted an 8-way junction. The lack of one's been weighing on my mind for a while now, so I sat down and made one. I'm not entirely convinced there's a practical necessity for such a thing, but here it is anyways: Sunflower.png 0eNqlndtuXEcORf+ln2WjWHf6N/I4CAa+aBIBsmzIcm...

[...]They are also using low orbits, where air resistance will naturally cause debris to fall[...] There's an interesting corollary on top of this. Because air resistance is dependent on the frontal cross-section of an object, (which is a square function of size,) and its momentum is dependent on t...

Sorry, I thought it was weird (and unintended) that the migration dialogue in 1.0.0 doesn't respond directly to the regular hotkeys (E and Enter), and instead seems to store the keypresses(?) until the dialogue is closed (i.e. after clicking Confirm, I pop out of my car and my inventory opens).

Try these changes from default: Reduce all resource densities to 33%. Reduce all resource frequencies to 50%. Double enemy expansion minimum group size (to 10). Halve enemy expansion maximum cooldown (to 30 min). Reducing density, especially, will force you out of the comfort of the starting area in...

This is technically undefined behavior as of 1.0.0, but it was recently brought to my attention that there is intent for 1.1.0 to make all dialogs close consistently upon pressing E. I'd just like to point out that the version migration window that pops up when loading an older game save does not cu...

[...] The numbers you choose within the slider options *don't* take effect until you accept them. 'E', following suite, should not then apply these changes as it would be affecting the options / windows without an explicit "a-ok" from the player[...] Except that's not what "not affec...

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↳2) You lose your car and are forced to retreat, but because you're a true Factorian, you whip another car, more ammo, and some fuel out of your pocket and get back to clearing before the nests/worms have a chance to regenerate their health.

[...] Your main power grid should be whatever is connected to your factory. The boilers are going to be backup power from now on, right? yess. so is this connection correct? (ill ask regarding the programming again once the connection already in place) Screenshot (1292)_LI.jpg [...] There are 2 par...

Optymistyk wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:12 am

Damn, that's actually better. I just don't like the chest cuz even if you limit it it's gonna store at least 200 ammo

Not if you tell the assembler inserter to fill it less.

On another note, irony: a Combinator Creation with 0 combinators.

TheRangerLOL wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:19 am

I like how the Nod belts go faster than the GDI belts.

The GDI didn't approve of the use of lube on their belt bearings because it has tiberium in it.

For the record, I've seen many more complaints about Steam than standalone due to their version control system, and you'd have to deal with the Factorio website backend anyways in order to get your accounts all linked up, so I'd advise getting whatever key weirdness hashed out with the devs directly...

TheRangerLOL wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:40 am

[...]Btw, my version of factorio doesn't allow you to connect wires to the boiler. What kinda stuff does it let you do when you do connect?
[...]

Boilers are still unwireable in vanilla 1.0. But jeez, what version are you using!? That boiler design is ancient!

[...]I think burner inserters should've taken coal from burner mining wheel even though they are not in front of drop point of them.. That's what long inserters do, don't they? They didn't move any coal because the furnaces on the other side already had enough coal in them (due to the scenario sett...

[...] so is this connection correct? sorry, your image is too crowded, so I'm not sure if you put electric pole between switcher or none at all (Blue: Accumulator, Orange: Boiler) Screenshot (1267)_LI.jpg [...] The connection from the accumulators is fine, but the combinator logic needs fixing. Loa...

There are several burner drills, some of which are working. All the ones on the left side aren't working because the burner inserters are blocking the output tile. I don't see a bug. Compare the spacing of the top drill to the left drills.

[...] For the sake of illustration, lets say a train takes 10 track tiles to slow down 10 KPH. If it is traveling at 200 KPH, it will take 200 tiles to hit 0. Thus, it has to reserve that many signals ahead, and start breaking that far out. On the other hand, if it takes 5 tiles to slow down 10 KPH...

Serenity wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:40 pm

[...]Just make sure the cone doesn't touch the wall

Walls have 100% fire resistance, so it's fine if the cone touches; you'll just get a few singe marks.