Add an infinite technology to increase Cargo Landing Pad limit

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Re: Add an infinite technology to increase Cargo Landing Pad limit

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nzer wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:39 pm
crimsonarmy wrote: Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:01 pm You still ignore that chests can give maximum throughput.
Um... no they can't. Unloading the landing pad into chests only allows you to have two inserters on each chest, which means the throughput is ultimately still constrained by the inserter unloading from the chest onto the belt. It is literally no different than unloading directly onto a belt from the landing pad.

The reason hacks like silos and tanks are an improvement is because they increase the surface area and allow you to have more inserters unloading onto belts than you have coming out of the pad. You can't do that with chests.
They can: see the below image and blueprint (this design doesn't do maximum throughput but the concept could be expanded to)
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Re: Add an infinite technology to increase Cargo Landing Pad limit

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nzer wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:39 pm
crimsonarmy wrote: Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:01 pm You still ignore that chests can give maximum throughput.
Um... no they can't. Unloading the landing pad into chests only allows you to have two inserters on each chest, which means the throughput is ultimately still constrained by the inserter unloading from the chest onto the belt. It is literally no different than unloading directly onto a belt from the landing pad.

The reason hacks like silos and tanks are an improvement is because they increase the surface area and allow you to have more inserters unloading onto belts than you have coming out of the pad. You can't do that with chests.
Yes and no , chest are faster than belts, but slower than tanks imo, this is because when transfering from "chest to chest" the transfer speed is faster than "chest to belt", but if you are using tanks or cars, you can use "more" inserters around the landing pad.

crimsonarmy wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 9:17 pm They can: see the below image and blueprint (this design doesn't do maximum throughput but the concept could be expanded to)
That's a good design for chest only, but i believe nzer was refering to more cursed techniques like :
the 2 inserters unload the pad in their respective car.png
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Instead of having only 1 row of inserter around the landing, you can use 2 !
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