If every byte was set to the true 64-bit integer (1 decellion), this game would need ~200 TB of memory. So that is why these practical values exist. No, 64 bits can index 2⁶⁴ or about 16 * 10¹⁸ tiles. In words this is sixteen trillion or sixteen pentillion, depending on whether you subscribe to the...

up to 65'000~ tiles. Holy tile space, Batman! The limit of 255 tiles means that they're stored in one byte currently. The next larger reasonable size is two bytes, which gets us 2^16-1 or 65535 tiles. A middle ground between expanded tile limit and memory use could have been using 12 bit per tile, ...

This has the disadvantage that the vehicle will always escape if the nearest enemy isn't far enough away -- even if there was another enemy that it could shoot at.) But it will be running away from an enemy it currently cannot attack, which could otherwise be meleeing it. Might actually be desirable.

The existing interface is that a LuaTile is always returned and you need to check .valid. So most likely all existing mods assume the returned value is non-nil and check .valid, which would trigger an error if they suddenly got nil.

I think option 1 would not require per-tile storage, simply using a per-surface lookup table rather than a global one. The same applies to 2a if noise functions are calculated on the fly, however I believe they're currently only executed on map generation so it wouldn't help. 2b definitely requires ...

I think it's not so much that they're keeping the tiles in memory, but they're keeping absolutely everything in memory (as well as synced across all clients in multiplayer) and that includes tiles. Keeping it on disk is probably not a useful approach; while the visual appearance of the tile isn't ne...

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Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:57 am

coderpatsy wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:16 am

your calculations are wrong

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36288000 / ( 60 ^ 3 ) = 216000

The meaning of the ^ operator varies from platform to platform. Yours applies xor; you just calculated 36288000/63.

Sounds like something more suited for a lawyer, we can really only speculate here. Although I'm pretty sure that that is not a thing. You can't ask people not to modify your things, you can only ask them to not redistribute said modifications. In your example: Well, the mod would not be modified, o...

Flying?

Or under water?

Hydrodynamic legs for the shallows and a watertight (floating) pod for the deep?

Would it make sense to perform such consistency checks in the background, rather than as a blocking part of the save process? No. Consistency check is a read operation and while it is happening data must not change for any reasons, including game update. But if you can run the consistency check dir...

Would it make sense to perform such consistency checks in the background, rather than as a blocking part of the save process?

Okay maybe more than two occupants is unnecessary, but being able to say "driver only" would be nice. It is a possibility to split into 2 bools, 'allow_drivers' and 'allow_passengers'. It wouldn't be so simple, but possible If this does happen, I would suggest allowing for a passenger onl...

The idea is you store that you haven't processed the wooden chest yet, so you recursively determine the fuel value of a wooden chest before returning to whatever you were doing.

However, it seems to be quite complicated to get a list of all items that may contain wood (and the total amount of wood) -- especially as the game builds such a list by itself anyway. Is there any shortcut I could use? No, the only way is to build the list yourself. I'm trying to do that now! Not ...

Further research: What happens with 2 modded roboports with different visualisation?

Could the belt line tool be combined with setting cursor size to lay multiple parallel belts at the same time?

And if you lower the pipes themselves as well?

Round robin seems like a very bad idea if you have both producers and consumers of the good spread across the map, as it would cause trains to visit far-away stations because it is 'their turn' rather than preferring close ones, causing more material to be in transit and more network congestion. If ...

How about pass-through steam connections on all sides, like on the uranium miner? Of course this simplifies the player's routing puzzle as well since they would no longer need to route a separate pipe through each lab.