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by quyxkh
Wed May 24, 2023 11:31 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Where do the default train station names come from?
Replies: 8
Views: 1521

Re: Where do the default train station names come from?

The list is in the install directory under data/core/backers.json
by quyxkh
Tue May 23, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: Multiplayer
Topic: WinterNode - Affordable & Powerful Factorio Hosting
Replies: 9
Views: 2202

Re: WinterNode - Affordable & Powerful Factorio Hosting

Wall of marketer-speak leaves worse-than-meh aftertaste.
by quyxkh
Sun May 21, 2023 2:04 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Rebuild or Restart?
Replies: 11
Views: 3081

Re: Rebuild or Restart?

It's simple at heart: collect a (mental or written, that's a who-do-you-love question) list of "do better next time" things, and when you can't stand looking at the list any longer, start the next one. Just remember to include your fault-finding-and-fixing process in the fault-finding-and-...
by quyxkh
Sat May 20, 2023 9:47 pm
Forum: Multiplayer / Dedicated Server
Topic: script to keep latest+stable dedicated servers updated on linux
Replies: 0
Views: 659

script to keep latest+stable dedicated servers updated on linux

#!/bin/bash # put this in your /opt/factorio or wherever you want your two server installs kept, # it'll check releases, do any fetching and set the `latest` and `stable` symlinks while getopts vx-: opt; do case $opt in # just debugging options here x) set -x ;; v) set -v;; *) echo $opt $OPTIND $OP...
by quyxkh
Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:01 am
Forum: Mechanical Throughput Magic (circuit-free)
Topic: UPS Optimization - the full belt myth
Replies: 26
Views: 6192

Re: UPS Optimization - the full belt myth

I think it might be putting things on and taking things off belts is cheaper when the lane's kept full.
by quyxkh
Tue Mar 28, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Best CPU available: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D?
Replies: 48
Views: 11649

Re: Best CPU available: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D?

And just to put some scale on "huge", six years ago, in 2017, you could build past 4kspm on a i3 4170, with the 0.15 engine. at 50fps.
by quyxkh
Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:34 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Best CPU available: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D?
Replies: 48
Views: 11649

Re: Best CPU available: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D?

It's impossible for the OS to reliably figure out that the best thing to do is restrict a process/some thread(s) to the cores with extra cache available. I wouldn't go that far. Maybe nobody does it, but I'm not sure even about that - - AIX would notice when pairs of processes interfered with each ...
by quyxkh
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: Resolved Problems and Bugs
Topic: [1.1.74] LuaItemStack.transfer_stack only transfers 1 artillery shell from an artillery wagon to another
Replies: 8
Views: 2796

Re: [1.1.74] LuaItemStack.transfer_stack only transfers 1 artillery shell from an artillery wagon to another

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/c game.print(game.item_prototypes['artillery-shell'].stack_size)
prints 1, and all other inventories stack them 1 per slot. Artillery wagons have some magic going on.
by quyxkh
Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:44 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: vanilla death world too hard
Replies: 34
Views: 10194

Re: vanilla death world too hard

Trying to play Death World Vanilla. Is this mode balanced so that every game is practically winnable? As you get better the harder modes become less suicidal. There are people (I am not one of them, they must be Gods 'cause they're crazy) who like to play deathworld marathon, and I wouldn't be too ...
by quyxkh
Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:19 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 1.1.63
Replies: 9
Views: 12119

Re: Version 1.1.63

A google turned up Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached , including MP3, AAC, and HE-AAC. which seems like a pretty damn stella...
by quyxkh
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:21 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Factorio price increase - 2023/01/26
Replies: 39
Views: 23228

Re: Factorio price increase - 2023/01/26

Ambaire wrote:
Sun Jan 22, 2023 8:05 pm
And yet this is a direct quote from Kovarex […]
Gee, I dunno, possibly they've got a use for the extra money now?
by quyxkh
Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:00 am
Forum: News
Topic: Factorio price increase - 2023/01/26
Replies: 39
Views: 23228

Re: Factorio price increase - 2023/01/26

There are like three games whose Next Big Iteration are an auto-buy: Factorio, KSP, Dwarf Fortress. The prices for all of those are set right According To The Great And Wonderful Me: they're between "glad to pay that" and "willing to pay that". Getting too close to either of thos...
by quyxkh
Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:22 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: 20-25 biter nests right next to oil I need. Unsure how to deal with them.
Replies: 28
Views: 3221

Re: 20-25 biter nests right next to oil I need. Unsure how to deal with them.

Goose your military research as far as you can, red ammo, land mines, grenades, explosive/physical damage boosts. Your goal is to get close enough to lob grenades and take out a nest or three without actually dying, then get away and eat fish or just wait to heal. Lather, rinse, repeat.
by quyxkh
Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:26 am
Forum: Mechanical Throughput Magic (circuit-free)
Topic: New(?) Kovarex design, one wire no combinator, shared buffer, v.low recycle time initially.
Replies: 0
Views: 1300

New(?) Kovarex design, one wire no combinator, shared buffer, v.low recycle time initially.

This is more of a curiosity than anything but I like enough to want to share: 0eNrdW12P6jYQ/StRpKqtBKs4zudKfa/UvvWxWqEQDLg3OJHjcJeu+O+1kyVQsBePs0jdPuwisHNmfGbGHnucN39ZdaThlAn/+c1fkbbktBG0Zv6z/3tdrLy29sSWeBVZC69mxGtFcWi9ZdceZh5VP1UHjxGyavtW8ip44UWBV6lnvXXN+6e/b+tKYlDZQ9Q9hIeC4AevKAXdE+8nKQQlgWwTRfX+E...
by quyxkh
Fri Dec 09, 2022 5:04 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [1.1.72][Lua] corrupt defines.circuit_connector_id
Replies: 7
Views: 1424

Re: [1.1.72][Lua] corrupt defines.circuit_connector_id

Per my expectation each entry has to have different number, otherwise it is impossible to detect which network an entity has. Here's your problem. Connector id is a defined constant, there's no way it *ever* could have told you which network an entity has. So it can't be what you first thought it w...
by quyxkh
Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:39 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Event when singal of a constant combinator are changed
Replies: 7
Views: 2297

Re: Event when singal of a constant combinator are changed

Haven't tried it but wouldn't watching player_cursor_stack_changed for the player switching away from a blueprint at least make checking whether the bp has constant combinators and if so rechecking every constant combinator on the map once a tolerable expense?
by quyxkh
Sat Oct 22, 2022 6:33 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Non-blocking saves?
Replies: 8
Views: 1713

Re: Non-blocking saves?

It's Linux-only, Windows simply can't support it. To light it up put `non-blocking-saving=true` in your config or hunt down the checkbox in the "the rest" set that shows up if you hold down ctrl+alt when you pick "settings". It's a fan-made feature, someone with source access bas...
by quyxkh
Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:09 pm
Forum: This Forum
Topic: What is worth suggesting to the game
Replies: 6
Views: 1728

Re: What is worth suggesting to the game

if a mod already does the thing you're suggesting, would it be better to not have it suggested it in the first place? There's just wayyyyy too many mods for anyone to page through them all, if the "downloads" and "trending" sorts on the mod install page don't bring you joy, I'd ...
by quyxkh
Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Why are containers UPS problems?
Replies: 7
Views: 2430

Re: Why are containers UPS problems?

Talking out of turn here, but hey. Optimize for the common case. There are a *lot* of inventories in this game. A *lot*. Almost none of them ever use more than a handful of slots. Optimize for the bottleneck. When Factorio bogs down, it's basically always on memory access. Bulking up the memory it h...
by quyxkh
Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:01 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Alt-F4 #21 - The Ultimate Modding Honour
Replies: 8
Views: 3937

Re: Alt-F4 #21 - The Ultimate Modding Honour

Firefox prevents site embeds, and opening the poll in another window gets me this page.

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