DaveMcW wrote:I spent the past week porting gzip to lua.

We now have automatic compression for blueprints!

One buffer to rule them all http://i.imgur.com/iq1boW3.png Input : up to 4 100% compressed blue lines via overflowing splitter cascade (13%..100%) Output : 2 blue lines, 3550/m Saturation threshold : 0..85% -> 100% Leakage : none Capacity : 154k Expected time from full to empty under full load with...

The tanks are optional, the main difference is that steam engines are switched on/off not by powering fuel inserters, but by powering electric pump (which cut off water supply if unpowered).

Pros:
-the boilers of the big engine are already fueled
-the water in boilers already at 100˚
-instant on/off

I guess it's time to introduce universal metric to rate factory power, measured in RDH (Rocket Defenses per Hour)

Here we can see 1 RDH factory.

Cdr.MaS wrote: Then I came across this. http://i.imgur.com/hVCAwD5.jpg

This pic is from the very first design.
Use the variation with the pump
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=8&t=6665
Much more responsive, saves a lot of fuel too.

You need 2 pumps per 10 engines.

-use decompression before T-joint. It turned out to be great idea, by the looks of it. Design: http://i.imgur.com/Jk6Sfv5.png Input: 100% compressed Output : 100% compressed, 0 leakage Input : ~83% compressed (1 turn) Output : 100% compressed Input : 64% compressed (2 turns, screenshot above) Outpu...

But it's also potentially complicated for the developers. Handling potentially thousands of damaged trees slowly regenerating could get complicated (especially in multiplayer with desyncs - there are already enough problems with damage causing desyncs). It's the ideal solution, of course, but healt...

If you are really want to get rid of heavy or light oil, dump it into steam engine.
Problem solved.

Yep, people on bay12 were so much nicer. Probably has something to do with the fact that, despite similarity between the two games, in DF player tasked with the goal of making large community live happily, while in Factorio your avatar is a sociopath who left his planet to live alone with machines f...

Someone with modding knowledge should fix this mod properly.

I ended up with a similar solution as the poster above, but decided not to post it here, because I don't understand what that code did, and what implications could arise from commenting it out.

Best way to fend off spam is to have custom question in the registration form.
Current ("Please select the highest number") is off the shelf, thus solvable by any decent spam software.

It will probably be done at some point (because there is no good reason not to - factorio already has all the necessary building bricks in place), it's just not a high priority feature.

had consistent little game hiccups every few minutes on the Mac 11.x build That's your auto-save. You can increase the time between them. But developers probably can make the whole process seamless. Still, somewhat unsatisfying ending. It is placeholder ending. Proper ending is scheduled to v.0.12

Well, this is probably the most compact design possible, but the benefit is questionable. There is enough space to put conventional inserter-belt-inserter thing in place of a red inserter http://i.imgur.com/uMERP4M.png I get "no fuel" icon occasionally here and there, but I don't think it ...

Also, with max inserter stack bonus, inserter grabs ALL fuel out of middle boiler when next boiler in chain needs a piece.
Not sure how it will work with big power plants.

It needs 1 more offset


It looks like in the end it uses more space than conventional setup, unless you use pipes to compensate for misalignment.

fixed in 0.11.5, which was released today

Nova wrote:Yeah, that's nice, but the question is: Why should I care that my factory starves on iron?

You shouldn't. You shouldn't fix belt turns too. Reduced performance means nothing, it is just a game.

I don't know why buffers should be important for anything beside trains. If there's a shortage in your production, where's the problem? Only fuel for boilers and things for ammunition could be a problem, but anything else could just not produce as much and be uninteresting. (rough approximation) ht...

Having spaces in file names causes enough problems that can be avoided entirely by just using what everybody else does, replace them with underscores... I don't know who you mean by "everybody", but Apple and Microsoft use names like "c:\Program Files" and "/Library/Applica...