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.

Note there are tricks you can do to perform some of these: Addition is done by connecting multiple wires (possibly isolating signals via +0 or *1) Subtraction via multiply by -1 and addition. Squaring is straightforward via (each * each). Multiplication can be done as ((A + B)² - A² - B²) / 2; make ...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:43 pm

Since water has no fuel value the water locomotive wouldn't consume any

Though historically there were locomotives which ran on only (superheated) water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireless_locomotive#Steam

Currently solar panel yield is calculated surface-wide. Accounting for smog would necessitate moving it to per-chunk, or recalculating the baseline yield for the surface whenever the pollution in a chunk with solar panels changes.

If you feed the turret from a chest, you could then use the circuit network to read the amount of ammo in the chest. Does mean there's an amount of ammo you're not seeing, and there's more ammo in the system.

valneq wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:47 pm

I really like the vegetation crawling out of the gaps in the tiles – makes it feel more aged and alive.

In that case, shouldn't the vegetation be initially removed and come back up through the cracks over time? Of course to a lesser degree the more often the path is used.

You can make it slightly faster by eliminating the math.sqrt() (sorting on the square of the distance instead) since that's equivalent.

"The nodes are related to segments with extra information about travel direction. Edges are related to segment connections (transitions)" I see. So, if I understand correctly, most of these cases arise from fact that train can be "in the middle" of some edge of graph on which pa...

Trains can take equipment though.

Could you detect the fact the vehicle has been standing still for more than, say, a second?

alexk wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:25 pm

Bumping.
Can't wait to try it out.
ETA please?

Not before January, so that the devs can relax during the Christmas holidays just like everone else.

I think the ideal solution would be allowing for LUA to run in the UI layer (where all current LUA runs in the game layer). All function calls or structure writes from the UI to the game layer would have to be synced, but the UI layer itself could stay local. In turn, the game layer would no longer ...

I think this mainly applies to low-volume high-value recipes. And then particularly cases where a high-value catalyst has a chance to decay - 90% outcome A and 10% outcome B becomes 9% both and 9% neither, and that's particularly punitive if it happens on the first craft. The question is though, wha...

Average distance any item is transported in its lifetime. This is a great one. It might be difficult to implement since the "life" of an item is difficult to define when it enters a stack. Maybe a way to implement this would be to measure the paths between the assemblers in a supply chain...

Average distance any item is transported in its lifetime.

How about, for every default event that a mod might also send, you add a second mod-only event. Then a receiving mod can pick if they want to support (and validate) mod-generated events, or ignore them and just handle (guaranteed valid) default events.

Could you post a tooltip example of a complicated recipe with multiple items, such as the uranium processing one?

First game startup with the mod isn't distribution. I'd rather expect accepting the license when downloading from the mods page, or when installing ingame through the mod manager.

Are game developers not allowed to be humans any more?

Problems like this make me think of a different potential solution: Having a distinct UI stage which can read from and send commands to the control stage. Those commands would need to be synchronized across all players, but the UI itself could remain local to each player. Probably isn't feasible in ...