Factorio: Captain Planet doesn't stand a chance.

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manero: Jan 30, 2006

FISHMANPET posted:

All my trains are loco

I�m on my phone and I couldn�t post a screenshot for some reason, but this is exactly where awful.app wrapped your post

Content: I�m on my final push to finally launch a rocket. I�m just finally getting into carting ore in via rail. I should also probably start nuclear power as well.

Once I launch a rocket, I�ll start filling in the fish-shaped lake where I stupidly built my base nearby... and play with artillery :black101:

# ¿ Dec 9, 2018 06:01

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 10:56

manero: Jan 30, 2006

And the rocket is Santa on his sleigh, with reindeer

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 00:39

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Now I'm really interested in OpenTTD

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 23:17

manero: Jan 30, 2006

TheFluff posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831934

Heck yeah, thank you!

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 02:37

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Check out "Warehousing" for big warehouses for storage, and Factorissimo 2 for buildings you can walk into

# ¿ Jan 29, 2019 21:39

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Mithaldu posted:

After some more futzing around i've come up with what feels like a much more easy way to treat the train system.

Going from the data above, with a single track line, i used the chain in, normal signal out strategy on most of the intersections i had on one part of it, and watched things a little. What ended up happening is that trains would basically immediately get stuck near intersections with two trans trying to move into it and each blocking the other. The only way to solve it was to add side-ways whereever this happened.

What that system does is effectively *force* the player to plan and build capacity beforehand or have the entire system just loving jam itself.

What works a lot better for me is to have all intersections be chain signals only, with occasional specifically built buffers. This allows the trains to only *start* moving to where they wanna be if either the path is entirely clear, or they have a clear path to one of the buffers on the way.

The main advantage for me there is that yes, trains may be sitting at train stations for a long time before they get a path they can use, but it will *never* jam, allowing me to keep doing stuff without everything falling apart, until i get around to adding buffers to speed things up again.

And the buffer design i was wondering about fell into place with GotLag's mention of pathfinding weighting. The following structure has the chains-only path on the longest track, so it'll be the last to be considered, and all other tracks are enclosed with normal signals allowing trains to move into them whenever. Having the chains-only path on the longest track is important because otherwise it will be chosen first, the train will reserve its entire path, and thus block the opportunity for other trains to move into a buffer track.

This explanation is a little bit lengthy, but in practice this solution is safe against breaking itself and requires the smallest amount of thinking to implement while allowing smooth incremental optimizing.

I didn't see the helicopters at first and I thought the speed/fuel indicators were for the trains, and I got excited :negative:

# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 21:58

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 10:56

manero: Jan 30, 2006

lol if you don�t have a jira backlog for your base

Also lol if you don�t have your base hooked into grafana and pagerduty

Right, right?!?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 14:32

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