This is expected behavior. You seem to expect that splitters move items from the left lane to the right lane, if the left lane isn't full and the right lane is. However, splitters don't do this. Both lanes are strictly separate. The left lane behind the splitter has a gap, if there isn't enough inpu...

Well, uh, it cannot be stated often enough.

If you can select red/green wire as input source then you can divide a red input by green input. Unfortunately, the screenshots in fff-384 show you can select the input source (red/green wire) with the new decider combinator, but not with the arithmetic combinator. The enhancement of the arithmetic...

My question was how people view steam engines through mid-late game. I mean, for me, nuclear > boiler/steam > solar. Once I get a nice, good nuclear setup going, that is my primary with boiler/steam being a backup/overdraw source. I'll put solar in, but more as a supplemental/isolated power deliver...

I agree that the steam engine and boiler setup act like/emulate a coal fired power plant. Do you know how coal fired power plants in the real world work? Inside, the burning coal heats a boiler, the boiler heats water to steam, the steam drives a turbine, the turbine drives an electric generator. I...

First idea: you didn't observe the game thoroughly enough. Trains will definitely be reassigned on the fly. It doesn't happen immediately, but it happens. In a setup similar to your first idea with a train limit of 4, it happens for me that one empty station has 4/4 reserved but all 4 are somewhere ...

The problem with dynamically adjusting train limits according to free space in the stacker is that trains with one item (for example iron ore) can completely occupy the stacker while stations that require a different item (for example copper ore) will starve, because all lanes in the stacker are occ...

It's funny if they really do add a Lightning Rod as a power source because a single Lightning Strike on Earth has only enough total power to run a Lightbulb for a Day and that is it. That is what high Volts and low Amps gets you, after all Humans have proven to be able to survive a Lightning Strike...

The only thing I'd like to add to the "Steam / evil" part is that you need to actually use Steam and observe its behavior and explore its features to judge them. Give it a chance. From what I read between the lines, some people flatly refuse use it and never got even one game from them, so...

Steam doesn't do anything but take a cut of your money. That's simply not true. After you bought a game, steam provides the steam cloud for shared saves. It provides a one-click-install process and keeps the game up to date. It provides installers for decades - even long after the original game web...

Inserter item/s is no primary value. It isn't defined in the game engine. It results from the environment the inserter is used in. To obtain it, you need to establish some environment, then measure the value. Such a value cannot be shown in an encyclopedia whose values are based on the ingame define...

I did a cursory search of "rollback netcode" in the forums and am mildly surprised to see nothing at all about it. It seems quite usable in Factorio even, given that the game is completely deterministic and player inputs generally aren't as complex or frequent as fighting games. The game ...

Almost everything has been done before, this is a possible solution:

https://factorioprints.com/view/-NQHYf_XCsdl_ChkKKMW

Your log seems ok, no apparent issue for me, but I'm not used to how logs are supposed to look like with AMD GPUs. Common PC issues that lead to the whole PC crashing are bad/outdated drivers for GPU and audio, overclocking, overheating, insufficient power supply (includes bad power connectors withi...

Oh, you used a chest for buffering. I guess this will last longer until it congests than the lifetime of a map. You added a quite complex belt+inserter setup. I did that too in my designs, however I was never satisfied with the added spaghetti. Not simple enough any more. I resorted to wiring 2 belt...

Examples for manipulating lanes:
(I practiced this by creating no less than 5 different purely belt based malls)

I envision support questions like this: "I deleted my Steam saves of <favorite game> because I installed fresh, but now all saves on all my other devices are gone! Gaaah! My precious save on <that other computer> is destroyed! How can I restore that?" Don't give players too much freedom wi...

I guess too much grieving potential. Be happy this secret link is available at all - I have that direct link bookmarked but I'm unable to find it anywhere in my account settings.

I had such setups before (I get bald from pulling my hair off from debugging my deadlocked kovarex setups), and unfortunately they all clog at one splitter later when U-235 or U-238 output overflows. Your setup as well. Consider the u-235 chests are full and U-235 is accumulating at the outer ring. ...

You can disable Steam cloud for Factorio in the Steam properties of Factorio. Then remove everything locally (don't forget to delete "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\(your steam id)\427520"). Then reinstall Factorio and start at least one map to let Factorio create everything (It doe...