Let's go a step further. *Should* they be nearly 14 times more efficient?

Spitters have not outranged gun turrets for quite some time now. Uh, yeah, they have. I guess you haven't used gun turrets much since 0.11.6 came out. Balancing The range of all spitters have been set to 15, so they don't outrange the gun turrets. Do what now? I see the patch note. I'm totally with...

Either that, or give us a recycle function please, so we can regain some of the ingredients used to make the (still brand new) Gun Turrets. Thanks! Doc. Completely agree. This mod, AmmoBox 0.3.0 - Fun with Turrets & Logistics https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=15182, was sugge...

BlakeMW wrote:Spitters have not outranged gun turrets for quite some time now.

Uh, yeah, they have.

The coal setup is sustainable! Nice improvement.

It's really hard to hear you. Is anyone else having that problem?

Adil wrote:Maybe this one will fit you.
viewtopic.php?f=93&t=15182
I didn't experience the need for such ever, though.

Oh, that's nice! Thanks.

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This is out of date, but exactly what I'd like!

I experience no such slowdown when deconstructing/removing roboports on my game with 400+ roboports and 30,000 + robots. If I had to guess, some mod is the culprit in that slowdown but without the map and the mods to reproduce the issue there's not much we can do. He decons them later and has no sl...

Rimworld: If the Sims mashed up with Firefly, from someone who really likes Dwarf Fortress but doesn't hate themselves and everyone else.

Why'd it have to be squirrels? A RimWorld tale. <- this sold me on the game.

Mixing the coal and ore on the same belt meant that the belt ran down too fast: burner inserters have a hard time grabbing from red belts, spending a lot of their time trying to grab an item as it goes past, Alternatively, run a main bus line quickly and VERY short parallel lines that clog because ...

We talked about "real height map"? Maybe we understood different things about that, but for me Total Anihilation does not use real height, it uses also graphical tricks on a flat map. See top of this thread, which explains, that this kind of trick would work also for Factorio. But real he...

Dunno if this is a bug or just a natural consequence of deconstructing so many things. Arumba decon'd ~10 roboports and his FPS tanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIovDyLVR0&feature=youtu.be&t=23m57s Edit: Even roboports that aren't plugged in and have no bots will cause lag: https://ww...

Here's a 3-lane version!

http://filmot.org/a/sgAsj

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... balancers/

Does the miner mine coal faster than the inserter extracts it? If you draw all the coal out and it can't continue the cycle, it would shut down the miner square. It kinda looks like that's happening just as the video cuts out.

What about using a real height map? e.g. as seen in Railroad Tycoon 2, Sim City 3000 and many more similar games and RTS's (although most really recent ones use full 3D for units and buildings). Total Annihilation does height well and it has the same perspective as Factorio. It has a smaller tiled ...

Found it. UrYIN30 - Imgur.gif You can also replace each underground belt with normal belts and it's cheaper in yellow and red. In blue, this is cheaper. The drawbacks with this is that it's kinda large for what it does and it only handles one lane of throughput. (All those balancers make it look lik...

If you're specifically after the ore-greencircuit pattern, I'm not sure that'll hold once your input isn't compressed. If you want that specifically, I'd use the underground belt splitter trick.

BTW, this is very similar to the input balancer I've been using! I'll post that and we can compare notes!

Just wanted to throw my two cents in here. Early game ammo turrets are great. They fall off later not because of damage output but because of cost and logistic complexity. 5 copper and 5 iron for 10 bullets doesn't compare to nearly free energy. And this doesn't even talk about the logistic complex...

50% shorter range than lasers is what makes turrets obsolete. Nothing less, nothing more. No, not at all. A combination of both is nice. Gun Turrets front, Laser Turrets right behind, and no matter what big waves are coming -> short work, without lasers getting in trouble due to low firing speed. I...

And one that unlocks APFSDS ammo (Armor Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot) (that uses existing AP Magazines + 1 Iron Plating as production cost with a blue color coding) that doesn't add to the turret physical DPS (or even decreases it a bit) but it does increase its range to make it relevan...