What would be a more efficient way to do it while still having specialized towns and trains?

Yeah Mangled Pork. I don't think he's doing it quite like I described though. But I'm not sure lol.

How would you do it better?

My friend and I are starting over and this time we'd like to utilize trains and specialized towns sort of. We're thinking that we'd have one main smelting area and transport the copper and iron and coal via train to the other towns. But I'm thinking about it and how practical is that? Would it work?

In your games do you make use of both or just one usually? I can't think of the difference between the two other than that one can travel a great distance fairly quickly and the other can still travel great distances but may need to recharge in between and has fewer slots for transport. Can anyone h...

We upgraded to red belts and pretty much solved the problem. I added a buffer storage which keeps things running for a little bit but most times, we end up with a backlog of iron now, which is what we were aiming for. But yes, we will be upgrading to electric soon.

In a game with a friend we are using one belt down the middle of the furnaces for iron ore and coal. We're noticing that we're having iron problems despite having a lot of miners. Is there anything we can do to combat this?

I started a game recently with a friend who lives in Belgium. I set up the multiplayer game and he can join just fine and it doesn't seem to be like there's any lag but we both keep getting a flickering of the screen every so often. Sometimes it's every few seconds and sometimes it stops for a few m...

I don't get to play often. So for one day only (cuz that's all I have), I'll be opening up a multiplayer game to NORTH AMERICA players only (sorry, rest of the world). Let's see how far we can get and have some fun together. I'm going to limit this to 2 other players not including myself. I plan on ...

Depends really just on how you want to play, what you get enjoyment from and well, how bad you messed up. :p If you can fix most the issues with either adding on better setups alongside them, or redoing your belt layout in some places, or just upgrading your smelting, then I say stick with it. But ...

When you find that you've poorly planned for future operations, do you start over or pick up whatever you need to fix and replace it? I feel that depending on how messed up it is, starting over would look like a good option, but should I just stick it out and pick everything up and place it back dow...

Your bases make ours look so puny, ja.

I have no words...

That's incredible, really.

Yeah that's another good option. I may do it that way as well.

That helps some! I think I know how I'm going to redo the layout though. One belt down with furnaces on both sides. I think that will be easiest. It will clean up a lot too.

Yup just have your output belt go down the middle of two lines of furnaces, works much better. :) For future reference though, one easy to get items going from one side of the belt to both sides is using a splitter. Stick a splitter on the belt in question, and place it so the other output of the s...

We're going to have to completely redesign the entire layout because of the amount of space the electric furnaces take up. So instead of two columns of furnaces placing on two different belts on one side, we'll take those two columns and use one belt and place on both sides. Because we won't need co...

Umm... if you have enough mining and processing, but one side of the belt can carry all of that, why not put the plates on both sides? Simply move half the furnaces to the other side of the belt, to use both sides. I think that's what we'll do lol. Idk why I didn't think of that. We're going to be ...

A friend and I started a multiplayer game over the weekend and we're looking to continue it. I'll try to explain this as best as I can without a picture (at work). Right now we have about....10-12 (maybe more) steel furnaces all producing iron plates (and sometimes stone due to an electric drill bei...

I'm getting that same error but not from Factorio, from Windows.