That sounds like general networking issues which might be a result of your routers you use to access your internet. You need to configure them to forward incoming traffic to your machine. That is usually disabled for security reasons and needs to be enabled for the specific ports and protocols used....

Buckle the belt - don't lay down a single belt blast to the past - use 10 nuclear bombs to kill biter nests mushroom season - have one nuclear reactor go critical due to biter attacks prime directive - don't kill a single biter nest (but biters are active and not peaceful) minimalist - build a rocke...

Factorio is a great game but right now it doesn't seem to have a clear purpose besides, "Build a Rocket" and "How fast can you build a rocket" Once you setup a build it pretty much repeats with that same pattern. Well, no, not at all. Building a rocket is for me usually only an ...

(...) Every time I think about getting bots and blueprints I am left wondering what game is there is left once you get automation. Its not like there is anything to figure out, every bit of production line is already figured out and the blueprint is already made and you can't improve upon it. (...)...

Pose yourself restrictions on what you can use and what your goal is: * allow only use of yellow belts * disallow use of (logistic) bots completely / for doing other tasks than supplying you with material * deliver raw materials directly and don't allow intermediate processing unless it is consumed ...

By default a circuit network controls station enable/disable. Did you leave that default additionally to reading train contents?

I see that, too. But distance to the wall does not seem to be the most important factor.
Mine are taking an extended nap a bit further away - until I need to move them due to extension of the base.

A bit off-topic but while we are at it... it bugs me more that the size of the night vision module should be 1x1 instead of 2x2. It would fit with the belt immunity. And joined with one battery there need not be empty spaces considering 2x2 for the "big" units.

Numbers are averaged over the selected time period. So possibly the silos didn't output science the whole time.

that is a shame, it is very difficult for a noob to figure out what the best direction to go is So who shall decide on "the best"? Who decides who shall judge? What circumstance are to be considered and what is actually your scale to measure "best"? Is best * exact ratios, irres...

Would be nice if they incorporated Angel's or Bob's into an "Advanced" option you can just turn on in the game itself. There will always be even more mods that would come along and make things more advanced, but I bet even more users would flip on the advanced mode after they got bored of...

That looks to me like you use some mods. I think a savegame to analyse will be most helpful.

I like the idea quite a lot.

I've one practical question which is mostly an UI one: how do we assign / visualize the colours to the colour channels?

In order to elaborate on the two answers a bit more: a refinery must be able to produce *all three* products or it will stop working. If one of the products is jammed as tanks are completely full, then the refinery will not produce anything, even when the other two products are completely empty (e.g...

Surely I'm missing something pretty obvious or a big part and the devil certainly is in the detail: Do the single pipe elements (including pumps, storage tanks, pipe-to-ground, straight pipe) have all a separate storage to indicate how much fluid they contain? If so, wouldn't a possible fix to the f...

Excuse my ignorance: what is the advantage of this mod over what I can do in vanilla? I read the description and this thread, but I'm somewhat puzzled: What I see, reading this thread and the feature list I see mostly one point: * order lists to which I can assign trains (as such: one set of orders ...

Well designed factories consume in perfect ratios and don't need balancers slapped everywhere. It's a question of how you measure "well-designed". While it's possible to raise "input must match output exactly" to the all-defining scale for a good factory design, it isis by a lon...

Then I would say: Try to understand why it is not. Hint: Any system - a railway, a telephone system, a webserver, whatever - can only be scaled up to a certain point. If you reach that point you need a new system. Thanks, that's exactly the point I tried to make. But I notice that I phrased my repl...

I disagree, utilising the circuit network isn't a woarkaround, but integral to a possible playstyle. In most cases even one active provider chest (or alternativly atrain wagon) will likley prevent any science destruction, considerung the huge stack size of space science. Should a player continue af...

My suggestion: create a blueprint for the SR latch and share it with those people (e.g. your family). Of course, switching on backup power, is the most obvious use, it is not common enough to warrant a special item for that in the vanilla game IMHO (maybe one can make a mod to create such item - th...