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Solumin posted:One solution to brownouts is to put all the machinery for running the steam engines on a separate electrical network. This works great if you are using coal, since a couple miners and some inserters can be run off a steam engine or two. In one game I even did it solid fuel, thanks to a couple nearby oil wells. I just connect my steam engine network/coal supply to everything else with a single line of electric poles. If a brownout happens, pick up one pole and the engines will put all available power to getting coal working again.
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Nice. Bonus points for an equivalent cheat sheet for Bob's?
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Apr 11, 2017 19:24
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Goddamn Bob's is engrossing. Just spent half an hour mathing out production ratios in Notepad++ so I could make the perfect production chain in a Factorissimo building. Turns out I'm still hamstrung by limited resource inputs and insufficiently fast belts. 
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Apr 14, 2017 05:11
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Nth Doctor posted:Are you admitting that you play Factorio yet still do the math manually? Have you learned nothing from the game? I have a strict policy of not opening up Excel unless I'm being paid to do so.
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Apr 14, 2017 17:16
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GenericOverusedName posted:Friendly reminder that you can use the deconstruction planner on trees (also large rocks) and have construction bots harvest them for you! This is secretly the number one reason to rush construction bots. Then turn every vibrant forest into a blasted wasteland populated only by train tracks and solar farms.
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Apr 17, 2017 16:59
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Hey Bob's users, what's the deal with mass producing sulfuric acid? The bottleneck is sulfur dioxide. I can make 5x sulfur dioxide from 5x sulfur and oxygen, and 5x sulfur from 5x sulfur dioxide and hydrogen. So essentially it turns oxygen and hydrogen into nothing? What's even the point of that? Am I stuck just making sulfur dioxide as an oil processing byproduct?
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Apr 18, 2017 16:19
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Jabor posted:Many things in bob's mods have more than one recipe to create them. That's not an option with what I'm assuming is the latest version of Bob's(installed through in-game mod browser). M_Gargantua posted:You're looking at the reversible chemical reactions. The oxygen binds with the Sulfer to make SO2, or You can take SO2 and burn it in H2 to separate out S and H2O. Evaporating hot water vapor isn't modeled. Its not that the Oxygen and Hydrogen aren't going anywhere. I accept that it may be a realistic reaction, but it's pretty useless in game terms.
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Apr 18, 2017 18:31
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I finally got logistic/construction bot production going(skipping to tier 2 as someone here recommended). Try to guess the point at which I gave up on optimal space usage.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:25
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Did biters get made more dangerous by patches over the last year or so? I haven't played since before artillery was added, and on my latest game I had to load an autosave from 10 minutes previous after a massive horde of biters showed up and wrecked my entire base as my first contact. First time I've ever had to do that. Just a hunch but pollution feels like it spreads out a lot further than it used to.
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Jan 27, 2020 01:39
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K8.0 posted:Biters have repeatedly had massive changes and at various points become both easier and more difficult to deal with. Yeah I started in a desert so nothing but tree stumps for wood. I'm planning an expedition to go wipe out the three or so nests I can see with radar but what with relearning the game I only just started bullet/grenade/turret automatic production, and still need to get engines going for a car.
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Jan 27, 2020 01:59
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Welp, started up a new game with K2, didn't realize the crashed ship parts had any function besides mining for resources so spent several hours building poo poo by hand. Lesson learned I guess. Also trying out AAI programmable vehicles and I have no idea how to get this poo poo to work.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:04
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So what's the recommended strat for beacons? I'm trying to get a save to the point where I'll be repeatedly launching rockets, rather than quitting after the first one. Trying out beacons for the first time and the way it throws off production ratios is causing problems. I assume there's an upper limit to the usefulness of speed beacons of how fast inserters can actually work? My attempt at a blueprint to resolve my green chip shortfall: 
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Sep 4, 2020 15:10
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What's with mods extending the length of the worst phase of the game, when you have to use burner tech? Just started on space exploration and bypassing that stuff now takes hundreds of red science for some reason.
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I would frankly be less annoyed if the burner phase was extended to take like 10 hours and multiple tiers of science. When it still only matters for the first half of red science, all that infrastructure is just going to be torn down as soon as I can mass produce inserters and miners. It doesn't take all that long, but it still feels like the first few hours are wasted.
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