ssilk wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:19 am

the original title was “Having sex with biters (Read this OR be ignored!)”

I like that title! This is the classic: "sex" - now we have your attention.

AFAIK the bottleneck is RAM bandwidth, not a CPU power.

I think you wrote too much philosophy for such simple issue:

>>> The topic sounds rude, may it sound more friendly? <<<

I agree it is honest, may the honesty sound any better?
I agree those rules are important, may we express the importance with some other words?

This post has been there for 8 years. You are here for 2 months. Don't you think, that if that post was promoting "toxicity", this forum by now would have been dead, and all full with flamewars? The things are not "you either live, or die". If forum can live with some toxic post...

...somewhere in the MS Excel...
Damn, why selection does not move... (start clicking faster) Oh, I got sssssssss in the cell, watafff...
Duh...

Other people read this. Even vanilla ideas are interesting to ME.

imcute wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:25 am

not clear which "?" are u answering to,and the two "?"s have different meanings

That was a joke. In this case it means: both ways are very good, do whatever you want.

I'd say: if in doubt, try something new you haven't done before.

Very good topic. I also have "The Great Recycling Station" where all possible and impossible items are sorted, buffered, and then redirected to the production bus, or to the raw material bus. I don't like storage chests and don't have whole-factory-network area because of the chaos. I do b...

Alphys_Hedge wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:31 pm

[..] or even as an additional Yes/No prompt...

...with warning "your gamesave will be X times larger". Really, does anybody know how many MB/GB it takes to record all moves? What if I decide to continue to a megabase after the first rocket?

Nobody knows what the tag /s means

Better flame-tower only or flame + laser-turrets? Flamethrowers are slow to respond and misses very first biters, so you need laser/gun turrets for them. I think it is possible to build defense without turrets, using only flamethrowers (and repair bots of course), but such design would be more comp...

Should the relative throughput consider train size? Longer trains -> larger footprint -> less value, on the other hand, longer trains -> more cargo wagons -> more items moved -> larger value, do they compensate each other?

No, I missed that. I did not found yellow color on the graph and skipped the following text . You know, browsing nowadays is about skipping 95% unnecessary information, this works on a driver layer

Nevertheless... 1% is still unexpected.

First thought: wtf???
Second thought: lets make the graph correct.

Of course, small and large intersections are not comparable. I would like to compare small vs small, large vs large, buffered vs buffered and so on.

I just thought, we need new metric: throughput/chunk. Some crosses have outstanding throughput, but hell, they are HUGE

Tertius wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:08 pm

And moving one combinator 2 tiles with all wires still connected - not possible.

Picker Dollies mod.

I just came to say... yet_another_shut_up_and_take_my_money.gif

In a "real" game - including mining etc and transporting items, and less UPS-optimised production - the reduction would clearly be less. I took my real 430 SPM factory and replaced 3.8 GW nuclear power to electric energy interface. Nuclear: 320 UPS. Electric interface: 380 UPS. Looks good.

Players have different motivation, I'm not sure if it is worth arguing about that. Personally, I use nuclear, because solar is too simple, it's boring, it's for kids. Please don't say I'm wrong, this is how I play. But I still want UPS, so gGeorg asked right question. I'd like to hear an answer like...