When my lasers fire, the accus dispense their energy while all the Steam Engines kick in to 100%. While the lasers continue firing and the accus slowly deplete, without hitting 0% ever, I have brown out. Satisfaction fall under 100% From that I'm concluding that the accus are taking precedence over ...

That's not exactly what happens, although I confirm the lasers have highest priority. From what I see it goes this way: lasers fire accumulators provide (enough and are never depleted fully) Steam Engines kick in at 100% Accumulators ask for more than what SE can provide Industries served third and ...

I have a brown out problem. The lasers are using so much juice that the accumulators all kick-in, and then ask my steam engines much more than what they can output. Lasers batteries can still fire continuously, from the accumulators, but the industries and lamplights flickers. I don't know how to so...

Thanks. So a Train Signal insulate a section from another. So ... why not add a lot of signals to create mini sections with a lot of bypasses also? Is that a good move? I removed the extra rail tile north, thanks. Also I managed to make it works by removing the connection, installing the station the...

I'm still quite confused by Train Stops. I have removed all signals, and yet I still can't put a train stop where I want! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/925/En7lwi.jpg I want to add a train stop that will go from East to West in the leftmost zone/rectangle. I just can't. The game only allows...

Very interesting! But is steam not cooling down back to water? So a setting could be something like 4 Steam Engines, 1 steam Tank, then a boiler? This would add quite a large buffer for output? And why get rid of Steam Engines? Because of pollution? Because I have no coal issue. But I have a huge te...

ok. Well, the basic is that an accumulator has enough energy for 2 laser shots though, which is not that much. A laser does 20 damages per hit, so needs 4 to kill a tier II Biter. Meaning I'll need a lot and a lot of accumulators! What I'm missing is basically how fast my steam engines can gear up f...

What would be a good rule of thumb for the ratio of laser batteries and accumulators?

If for sporadic attacks
Medium sized attacks
Fending off a huge wave (like a need for almost continuous fire for a long time)

I have totally no idea...

Somehow related, there is a kind of human cry from biters from time to time, it looks weird and out of place (and badly done, but that's personal).

Thanks Kavanor. But for the trains, I'm speaking of a shortcut, hotkey, I know and I do use the button at the top. But I often use it, very often indeed, so as there is a shortcut for Techs (T) and Blueprints (B), I'm desperately searching for a shortcut for Trains ...

New questions, if you will.

I have not found the shortcut to open the train interface panel.

I find the techs horribly expensive, is that normal? I'm struggling to reach lasers turrets (on my way, nearly!) after 15 hours of play time.

@Earendel: compatibility error with reverse factory, on micro black hold data, recipient item count 0. Dunno if the culprit is your recipe or the other mod.

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Your outline/road map seems very interesting. I'll definitively follow your progress.

(1) ah ok. I think my problem is tied to my attempt to have a train with 2 loco facing different directions. It don't work in Factorio (I mean with automation), as the game don't understand it needs to reverse direction upon reaching the first station... If you have a tutorial or article on using do...

Do you have a roadmap somewhere? Namely, how will you make the experience different, from planet to another? I know the minerals differ, but still, do you think that's different enough? I was thinking of different aliens species with different behaviors or capabilities. Basically reskinned biters, b...

Ok... thanks. I don't know much about Rimworld modding, but I know it is much more sensitive to order than Factorio. Oh well... I have troubles with my train tracks, I often get 'no path' for portions that I can travel on manually, back and forth. Is the message also triggered if 2 trains are in the...

Thanks BlueTemplar! I'll probably install Fish & Wood Service then, hopefully it won't kill my UPS. At worst I'll deinstall it if necessary. Tangential question I'm wondering how Factorio manages to load all mods without having the player to re-order them? Even RimWorld, which is done by a quite...

Sooooo... Pollution! I'm at day 90 (25.000 UPS makes a day) meaning 10:25 hours in playing time, and my production is still quite low, humble even (top production is 300 iron per minute, don't laugh, that's a death world and my first game since 2016). And despite that one of my mod tells me that pol...

It seems nice, but the mod is deprecated...

A quick question, is it possible to choose which side you climb down from your locomotive?

Another one, with one loco in each direction, is the train slower than only one loco, i.e is the back-directed locomotive slowing the first?

Great, thanks!

Sorry to ask this question here, as this pertains to modding, but is there a mod that makes the big yellow 'out of power' more subdued? I searched and found nothing.