But since factorio trains use solid rather than liquid fuels, they are clearly external heat engines Are they, though? I mean, as you pointed out, locomotives (and cars and tanks, etc) don't take water. Could be a simplification, could be advanced tech. But they do take what we conceivably would se...

That looks really great. Tho if I may, I'd suggest a name change to Factoripedia. Just easier on the tongue. I'd go with one of these: Encyclopedia Factoria If you're going that route, you gotta spell Encyclopædia . Encyclopædia Factœria Nah. I really like Encyclopedia Factoria tho. You have my sup...

Factorio does use something like this; they call it latency hiding.

Oh and lastly (and certainly most importantly), can we get horns?! If only just for manual use, I wanna beep at the biters! (Also could include an automatic horn that plays if a player is close to train tracks whilst a train is approaching... then again making deaths by your own trains more easily ...

Instead of just clicking each item individually from the recipes, could there be a button to show a tree of all the sub-components, sub-sub-components, etc? Like, if you click on green circuits, it should show iron plates and copper wire, which expand into a lower level of iron ore and copper plate...

Oh and lastly (and certainly most importantly), can we get horns?! If only just for manual use, I wanna beep at the biters! (Also could include an automatic horn that plays if a player is close to train tracks whilst a train is approaching... then again making deaths by your own trains more easily ...

It would make more sense to add an option to the lamp to make it treat a user-picked signal (or three) as RGB or HSV values.

Until you beacon it of course. Or would it be more efficient to beacon in the perpendicular direction? It's not more beaconable with 1 tile gaps. If you want room for beacons on both sides, then you can still alternate them with mirror to fit them closer together and use fewer beacons. You can stil...

Whoever wrote the FFF missed an important trick with mirroring. In the picture of refineries on the bottom, that's not even close to optimal. To make full use of mirroring, you mirror all the buildings next to one another, then you don't need to leave a 1 tile space between the adjacent buildings l...

I'd expect detecting (of biters) to be on the radar, not on the roboport. Probably only in the inner/permanent scan range?

Somehow I feel the solution to this should involve the circuit network.

Terrahertz wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:39 pm

One thing seems to be missing: Getting the amount of an ingredient.

And stack size. And number of items per rocket.

1.) On the "explore" tab, a category "mods that have a dependency on any of your active mods and mods your active mods have an optional dependency on". This would automagically list mods that are related to what one currently has, as well as mods that harmonise with them. Perhap...

And even 2^52 microseconds (that is, a million UPS) is well over a hundred years.

Having a research for circuit wires (possibly one of the new-style ones which doesn't cost science) gives you an opportunity to actually introduce new players to them. Perhaps trigger it when 4 assembly machines have been built.

Very cool! Something not mentioned that I think would really be an additional improvement on top of interrupts would be the ability to temporarily disable interrupts, or fully disable interrupts and only check them at specific points in a schedule. For example, if you know that the refueling statio...

Regarding the number parsing... I'm surprised nobody mentioned this before, but the most interesting activity about this for me would be trying to break the game via code injection . Who knows, naybe there's a CVE lurking around the corner ;) Why? Why break into a program on your own computer? You ...

PaszaVonPomiot wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:58 pm

my wish? multithreading

I wouldn't be surprised if they allow different surfaces (planets, platforms, etc) to be processed in parallel. Although I think cross-platform power is currently possible, and maybe other things, which would probably have to be cut then.

For smart numbers, it looks in the animation like it forgets the formula after closing the screen and just remembers the value. It would be valuable if it stored the formula for re-display later. After all, `12h` is clear but `43200` (seconds) is meaningless at first glance and `2592000` (ticks) is ...

Except there is one problem. You can make a loop. Connecting an output to an input quickly creates a situation where you can't evaluate the result as it never stabilizes to a fixed value. The tick delay is frequently a required feature as much as it is a bother. That's pretty easy to detect though,...