Productivity modules' effectiveness increases exponentially with the length of assembling machine chain involved. This is an optical illusion. It isn't what's really going on. If each machine in our chain gets 150% productivity (say, 2 lvl 2 and 2 lvl 3 modules), cost per item is 1/1.5 = 2/3. If al...

Productivity modules' effectiveness increases exponentially with the length of assembling machine chain involved. This is an optical illusion. It isn't what's really going on. What is going on is that the higher the ratio between cost of ingredients and assembling time for an item, the greater the ...

kovarex wrote:

Dysoch wrote:Any release time on 0.7.4? Cant play without filters of the smart inserters, the entire system will overflow with tens of thousands items.

We are working on the release right now.

What's the productivity module status in 0.7.3? Any chance you'll improve it for 0.7.4?

kovarex wrote: [*]Restricted usage of productivity modules in beacons.

Restricted in what way?

Are prisoners allowed to shuffle the papers between the drawers they open?

I tried experimenting with delaying setting up electricity and building a working mining line based on burner drills and inserters, so this is a problem. Now that I have experimented... I don't recommend it. Burner miners are just too weak (is it just me or did they become weaker in 0.7.x? It seems...

Trains are good: Using basic belts would limit the flow of items to small rates, so lets compare fast transport belts and rails. Rail costs approximatelly 6 iron per 2 tiles. Fast transport belt costs 26 iron per 2 tiles. What about having 2 lines of basic belts in parallel? It costs 6 iron per 2 t...

The continuous factorial in the end is also an interesting concept, I do fail to see how it relates to the factorial. Since, in my head, the factorial has always been based as "the amount of discrete configurations n objects can have"; as also seen in his given example with the coins. So ...

So for 0.7.3, I did the last way. No productivity modules in beacons. Please reconsider. I have the following suggestions to make modules more balanced: 1. Make beacon stacking sublinear. That means, if a machine is affected by 1 beacon it gets the normal bonus, but as more beacons affect it it get...

This is something with the robots. As you upgrade the robots, they begin to trnsport more goods at the same time. At max upgrade, they transport 4 items, but if there is only 1, the systems show you a negative number because it thinks it is picking up 4 items. A simple "fix" is to up prod...

I never just stand and wait for research when I play, as currently when I play, I try to beat the game in smallest amount of time possible, or playing with less resources, being forced to make railway very early etc. I agree. If you ever find yourself sitting idle waiting for research or crafting, ...

No need to loop around the labs Not sure if this was Math3vv's intention or not, but until you do have a solid science production the loop allows the science packs to continue moving on the belt instead of 10-20 being stuck at the end where only 1-4 of the labs have access (ranges are dependent upo...

ssilk wrote:Isn't it not forbidden to play during Sabbath????
SCNR

It is, but being only partially observant I make do with not installing games on Shabbat. So you see my problem...

You start week on Sunday ? Where do you live ? Who starts their week on sunday, that's ... idiot ? I mean, okay, i'll start my year on december, my week on sunday, oh and i'll start my day at 11 PM :) Israel. Much of the world has Sunday in its weekend, probably inspired by the Christian idea of Su...

Belt-based version:

Why do you use such a complex design for feeding the labs? It reminds me of the naive circular designs I used for assembly lines before I understood how to align lanes properly. The traditional method is something along these lines (this assumes a logistic system, with pure belts you need filters fo...

I've loved and enjoyed Factorio since 0.3. Not saying that it can't be improved but if it bores you and you quit playing after a week, maybe it's not the game for you. No need to turn it into something that it's not. Also, I've never encountered your situation. I'm always researching much faster tha...

Everything else uses squares and taxicab metric (total distance is sum of x and y distances). It's not Taxicab metric . It's the Chebyshev metric (Total distance is maximum of x and y distances). OT: I believe mathematicians call these Manhatten and Maximum metrics/norms (or alternatively L_1 and L...

In 0.7.x, the long inserter takes from 2 spaces away and puts 2 spaces away. The old method was good too but this is pretty convenient, as you're usually inserting out of or into a building which is at least 2x2, so it's not a problem and allows more flexibility. (And this post upgraded my forum ran...

kovarex wrote:This week ends in 3 hours, but next week it will bee almost for sure.

Sorry for the confusion, we start the week on Sunday here. If it's out by Friday noon it will be great.