Wouldn't the straight solution be a steel chest? eg, Insert goods into the steel chest as you please, then have a smart inserter set to move those items into a provider chest if there is demand in the logistic network for it. You don't even need a smart chest, just a dumb one will do. Use the Limit...

Actually this is more of a not-yet-done feature. The furnace is now hardcoded to check that the recipe has 1 output product, otherwise it won't accept the recipe. I have put this on our todo list. thanks, i will wait for that. ^^ also i found that i was need more flexible input handling. example se...

thats all logicaly. player must not be a godlike even in armor. Sadly, the game eventually becomes a war of partially automated bots and defenses, and the player is just there to watch and run like a bitch 'cause the orbital drones do all the fighting. I wouldn't even bother with rocket launchers i...

So the pickup position / insert position is now implemented for the 0.9.2. This will allow (among others) the 90 degree inserters. Further proposed changes can be done in the future but I am reluctant to do them now so close to the bugfix release (the further changes are not trivial). cool! waiting...

What would be the benefits of using an active provider chest? same as currently using of provider chests, chests which will be taked out of items by bots. i'd like idea with passive provider chest, cuz it will allow me to build good layout of sorting items(and then limit them). while passive provid...

Well, taking the current experiences into account, I think the maximum size of logistic network should be about 300-1200 tiles in diameter. This depends from the current speed of the bots, without upgrade I think 300 is very ok, fully upgraded 1200, eventually 1500. And to be on the sure side I wou...

thats all logicaly.

player must not be a godlike even in armor.

from https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Script_interfaces The interface functions can take only primitive types and tables as variables. The same holds for return values. The reason for this is that the scripts are running in different lua states and there is no easy way of passing mor...

BTW:

We had some talks about the MP today and the result was that we will start working on the multiplayer after 0.9 is stable.

kovarex wrote:Well, this is the way it was designed, to avoid not moving train (waiting on signal or stopped for other reason) to not interact with stations.

may be allow loading to train if traing out of fuel?

kovarex wrote:so I'm moving this to not a bug.

you missed a bit:)

SilverWarior wrote: @Developers
For recording smoth video of your gameplay I recomend next approach:

video recording very much depends from PC, my laptop dont have any problems with video recording even in 3D games(last i wrote was Mech Warrior Online game).

i'm not developer of this game.

They working under adding multiplayer support as i know.
There is too much work with it, also they want stabilize version 0.9.

There is thread about multiplayer near.
Why create another one?

i found another thing which is difficult for me. when i place resource at tile, i try to use findnoncollidingposition, but resource dont block place as i see. so there is any functions with which i can easy(and fast) find position to place resource(line findnoncollidingposition do). or i must write ...

one difference, that in my algoritm this will be possible to requare iron-ore when we need iron-plate.

I now more think about condition:
if logisticItemValue < NeededValue then insert by SomeValue.

where SomeValue and NeededValue is setted by network. with correspond items.
and this inserts executed exactly SomeValue.

when i work on metalprocessing factory.
our supply algo was like next
when we have less then 0.5t of 1mm metal plates then we request another 10t.
and we recieve 10t, not more.

i more think about system of requests, against current based on pure comparing(if items count less then requeared then transport). but use this system for inserterrs and splitters, that it send request for needed items, and inserter/splitter do it. also the logistic network can work on it. it will b...

I think that it very usefull to make transport network smarter.
so you can command to inserters to insert needed number of needed items.
the same for splitters, ex spliiter mainly move all at left, but we requests it to move all to right.

BTW, the same usefull for trains