What you did won't change designs. More beacons is still better... If you truly wished for cutting their number, you would code hard limits on assemblers and other devices. Just like it is with efficiency but for productivity, speed etc. I don't think that was their goal. Instead, I feel like they ...

Agamemnon wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2024 2:38 pm

Hottake: If a player is so far into Factory optimisation as to spam beacons and obsessing over exact production statistics, they can be expected to use a calculator.

argbla wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2024 2:45 pm

Calculators? What are those? Machine go fast, engineer happy.

I'm right there with ya!

In https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-402 the foundry crafts 260 times per second and I suspect that every craft needs 10 fluid (as max machine input fluid capacity is 20). That makes it require 2600 input fluid per second. For a single machine. Ludicrous indeed It's only using 2. https://forums.fa...

Gordfact47 wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2024 7:14 am

You mean cutting down all the trees ?

There's a console command for removing all decoratives (the stuff that often gets left behind and sticks up through your concrete). Should be in the wiki somewhere, I think (under console commands).

Please add a new localization section named "string-mod-setting-global" or similar that the game will check second after "string-mod-setting" that does not require the setting name as part of the locale ID. My concern with this approach is that the locale files are not specific ...

Is there any way to obtain this specific full-kit version of the game? In Steam, I can revert either as far back as v1.1.87, or back to v0.18.x. My modded savefiles are intact after a hiatus from last playing the game back in April 2023. During that hiatus, the SSD was re-imaged and Windows 11 was ...

Tertius wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 7:01 pm

Thank you for the in-depth explanation.

[...] many 3D games make me suffer from motion sickness. About 2/3 of all the modern 3D games make me sick and I have to abandon them. [...] Simple curiosity question: are these mainly 1st/3rd person perspective games that give you the motion sickness? How are top-down or other non-character bound ...

:D Sure I would try to refactor it at ever greater scale once I fully grasp the current organically evolved "architecture" and simplify it a little bit. Still, for mods that have dynamic (at runtime) event de/registration I think this is the same. That kind of use-case is convenient for c...

I would first maybe ask why Biter Battles is doing things the way it is and is there a better way.

Is there a way to modify the properties of an entity during runtime. No. The power produced by an entity is not modifiable at runtime. Best you could do is define separate entities for each tech research and then swap them out as you go. Take a look through the API docs some. Properties of entities...

Will the current version of Factorio support the next Switches 12gb of system ram or will it need a patch to work on that system since I heard it will be backwards compatible with the current switch software. It should be fine. Ram doesn't require anything special to support differing amounts. If i...

I have seen one megabase called osiris I got it from the PC version of steam I had and transfered it to switch and it's a 32mb save and it works fine which is amazing. But this is the only save I have that works that large. I don't think the save file size means a lot in regards to ram usage, as th...

Just an unimportant off topic question. Is (or will be) the multi-pointer functionality (2 or more active mouse cursors) supported in Factorio 2.0? Could be fun playing the game with two mice simultaneously. I am curious... are there any computer games that support this? I've never actually played ...

You can do strawmans all day, I don't care. You both are literal years on my ignore list. My post was targeted towards the general forum audience, so that there is no appearance of a consesus of "old forum members". If you bothered reading, you'd also have seen, that I agree on "simp...

I don't get why you continue repeating what you say infinitely. It's not that people are too dumb to understand what you say. Your argument could also be applied to splitters - why have them work by clear and logical rules, when you can simply always have a full belt and balance consumption? Becaus...

No, you are severely understating your understanding of the issue at hand. [...] Your counter-point about my example is invalid because I have already explained it several times. I want to prioritize the first row, and I built three rows to demonstrate that the vertical left side gets prioritized, ...

I'm not sure if that kind of information is available to modders, but I don't have as deep of knowledge into the API as others. I do know, though, in all of the various posts where I've seen folks attempting to troubleshoot exactly that, I've never seen something employed like what you're looking fo...

There's a couple of dev functions in the game that can put info as text on the side. I forget all of the different modes and keys to activate, but there's an F4 debug menu. It's been a while since I paid attention to all of the options in there and what exactly they show, though. There may be other ...

I have found a way to more than double the throughput from 1200 all the way up to 3000 fluid per second ! I think in no time it will become the new standard : Throughput optimisation.jpg 0eNqV1dtqhDAQBuBXkbl2l5w8Xvct2lJ0DduAxqCxVMR3b3a96EqlP3tpmPkYzE9mobqdtBuM9VQu1OjxMhjnTW+ppMk5PURtZXUkGWNvtu6977v...