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Dunno-Lars posted:I like The formula for mining speed is (mining power - hardness) * mining speed. Coal, iron, and copper have hardness .9, stone has hardness .4 (and all the vanilla resources have a mining time of 2). Burner drills have mining power 2.5 and speed 0.35, electric drills have power 3 and speed .5 So electric stone = 2/((3-0.4)*(.5)) = 4/2.6 = 1.53846... And electric copper = 2/((3-0.9)*(.5)) = 4/2.1 = 1.90476... At the kind of scales the exact numbers matter, though, you're likely going to have bigger issues with belt and inserter latency than anything else, which is why it's super spergy to care.
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All that grinding to get a grey square with "rocket defense" written on it. 
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The journey is it's own reward.
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Yeah, I'm at that point, where I'm wiring up long lines towards alien nests so that I can laser tower them for a miniscule number of artifacts. I'm disappointed that the tank turns out to be for multiplayer only. On the plus side, I've started seeing up logistics robots at my base, which is pretty spiffy.
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I had the tank in single player. Mk2 power armor filled with generators and shields and a good supply of shotgun shells and you are the tank. Switch to the backup armor with all generators and legs and you're almost as fast as the car.
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Holy poo poo the clarity difference on the current resolution versus the detailed skins.
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This game has a goal? I thought you were supposed to cram the world with so much belt hell that your CPU burns up and dies with the heat of a Red Dwarf.
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Overwined posted:This game has a goal? I thought you were supposed to cram the world with so much belt hell that your CPU burns up and dies with the heat of a Red Dwarf. Thats's pretty much how my "Ten Rocket Defenses Or Bust" games end up
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Overwined posted:This game has a goal? I thought you were supposed to cram the world with so much belt hell that your CPU burns up and dies with the heat of a Red Dwarf. You need to do this to make the rocket defence anyway, as well as killing about a billion alien bases.
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Evilreaver posted:Thats's pretty much how my "Ten Rocket Defenses Or Bust" games end up My last game the goal was to fill a steel chest with Rocket Defenses, but the game just crawled by the time I had 30 or 40 of them in the chest.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:15
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The goal is to make your factory self-replicating so it automatically expands, crushing aliens and slurping up resources until eventually the entire map is covered in machinery.
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Neruz posted:The goal is to make your factory self-replicating so it automatically expands, crushing aliens and slurping up resources until eventually the entire map is covered in machinery. The true goal of Factorio, to reveal yourself as the enemy
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Neruz posted:The goal is to make your factory self-replicating so it automatically expands, crushing aliens and slurping up resources until eventually the entire map is covered in machinery. Factorio: Logistics chain and Grey Goo Simulator.
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Has anyone tried using efficiency modules on bottling/unbottling to generate free oil?
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Assuming you mean productivity modules, productivity is disabled for certain recipes. Barrelling/unbarrelling is not considered an "intermediate product" (despite being in the intermediate tab).
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Anyone wanna try modded multiplayer? I'm using the pack at http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6910 youll need to download the file in the op and overwrite with a fix at the last page. Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/optiquest
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Sure, add me on steam @dipwood or join the Goontorio group. I'm usually around EST 6pm+ but it's better if we plan ahead.
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I'd love to get some multiplayer in, it's an itch that's hard to scratch. same name as here, dipwood you're already my friend so drop me a message. which version 11.8? Elendil004 fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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I haven't tried the "experimental" version, but the stable version has been insanely functional, I've had it going for a week with no issue. Are the experimental ones just as good at running steadily?
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Slickdrac posted:I haven't tried the "experimental" version, but the stable version has been insanely functional, I've had it going for a week with no issue. Are the experimental ones just as good at running steadily? It's a cycle: Point release (0.X) pushed to experimental: new features, potentially buggy but usually stable enough to play. Minor releases (0.X.Y): Bug fixes, refinement, maybe some new minor features. Once that major version is considered stable, it's pushed to alpha and the cycle begins again. I haven't ran into any issues running experimental builds. The only point where I would hesitate is the first experimental release of a major change (like multiplayer).
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Multiplayer has been pretty drat good on a LAN. It sounds like other folks are having a good time over internet too. Our game hit a couple of bad desync loops but an upload of the save and bugreport on the official forums got it fixed in the next release. 11.7 is running well for us and the new car is cool so play in experimental, just be sure to submit bugreports to get your crashes fixed. So far it hasn't been more than a week and a half for something that broke our game to be fixed. edit: looks like 11.8 dropped today http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7522
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Neruz posted:The goal is to make your factory self-replicating so it automatically expands, crushing aliens and slurping up resources until eventually the entire map is covered in machinery. You can make it self sustaining by having everything the base is made of being produced somewhere, with enough of a surplus that the robots can replace the broken bits, but it will eventually run out of resources, and there's no advanced robotics that would allow automatic expansion into resource fields. So the resource location and base building is a manual process.
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I created a custom scenario without aliens to try to make a base that uses trains as much as possible, and belts as little as possible. Is there a way to go back into the saved game I am already playing and insert aliens or purple science packs?
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https://www.factorioforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Console/Lua_commands Particularly code:Or to spawn enemies code:
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Awesome, thanks.
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Would it be possible, by mod, to have a technology modify every existing building of a particular type? Or ideally, just every building. I was thinking about writing a mod that improved the entire factory at once, like Speed Tech 1 improves all assemblers by +5%, with max 20 ranks like Follower Count. Ideally you'd also have Production Tech (+2%) and Effectivity Tech (+4%) all working naturally and in conjunction with inserted modules if present, without the downsides modules have (energy costs/etc). I think it would make an excellent 'future tech' mod as long as the costs scaled up insanely like Follower Count does-- maxing out all three trees would be a good goal for The Maximum Factorio Grognard(s).
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Evilreaver posted:Would it be possible, by mod, to have a technology modify every existing building of a particular type? Or ideally, just every building Not yet. But this will be a thing.
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I think I overused drones. I had a template that was just an electric miner mining into a provider chest thing , and then another template that was requester chests and electric furnaces. I have 3000 logistics drones fully maxed out on research and theyre' still not coping with the crap I want to do guess I have to use belts
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Fajita Fiesta posted:I think I overused drones. I had a template that was just an electric miner mining into a provider chest thing , and then another template that was requester chests and electric furnaces. I have 3000 logistics drones fully maxed out on research and theyre' still not coping with the crap I want to do No, you just need more factories making drones. Requester chest with inserter into roboport, and they are self replicating.
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Fajita Fiesta posted:I think I overused drones. I had a template that was just an electric miner mining into a provider chest thing , and then another template that was requester chests and electric furnaces. I have 3000 logistics drones fully maxed out on research and theyre' still not coping with the crap I want to do You should probably use belts as much as reasonable, while using logistics bots for things that would require absurd routing. Belts cost no power and can't get detoured.
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Been a while since i played this, gonna play a new game and check out some of the new features and also test my luck with some mods. What is the best/most extensive mod nowadays? Is it still DyTech? I saw it get some criticism for being needlessly complicated
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Ineptitude posted:Been a while since i played this, gonna play a new game and check out some of the new features and also test my luck with some mods. People complain, but when you've beaten the game, all mods can really do is add complexity to create new challenges.
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ikanreed posted:People complain, but when you've beaten the game, all mods can really do is add complexity to create new challenges. There's good complexity, and then there's tedium. DyTech adds tedium in too many ways for me to find it enjoyable.
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DyTech is Gregtech, and I've already started seeing modders getting upset about modpacks.
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Krataar posted:DyTech is Gregtech, and I've already started seeing modders getting upset about modpacks. Time is a flat circle.
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Thyrork posted:Time is a flat circle. Carousel buffers can be tricky beasts.
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"Kovarex" posted:Carousel buffers can be tricky beasts. Yessss, finally an easy way to switch power grids without stupid workarounds.
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Evilreaver posted:
Are you using those boilers as chests? 
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