If you don't want the accus to flicker on and off you need some sort of hysteresis function.

I personally like this one better, because it needs no power: viewtopic.php?f=208&t=29598

So I couldn't find the blueprint string for this anywhere, so I built it myself and here it is, if anyone else is searching: H4sIAAAAAAAA/5Wb3W7bOBBGXyXItbvgjEhKRuFnKdREWBhwpMB2gC2MvPs6+sk2srs831UveqLwzA85Etvn4eEwPLWHhx+7S9ef9+d9d9pdLn370u0e26en t5e3Q3sejo+b1+F0/duh313+2X3z6q+0+TX9+f6+KfOm8bYV+Vrkk8...

GeniusIsme wrote:Don't build ordinary signals on exits from shared track. Trains will stop there and block. Place ordinary signals only in places where you believe trains can wait forever without blocking the system.

If you put chain signals at the entrances of the shared track this shouldn't hold true.

I would place signals like this. The chains signals make sure, that a train turning from the station and one passing the station don't block each other.

The common answer is to craft one oil refinery by hand, just like you needed to craft thinks in the beginning by hand.

They don't have a home base and will just "return" to the closest roboport with capacity after finishing their task(s).

Those islands sure look nice, but the resource settings (everything on very high) isn't for everyone...

LuckyStar wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just a question of game balancing?

Well it definitely has balancing implications, but he argues solely from the usability standpoint.

No, it's not a good question, cause you can answer it yourself. :) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Floating_Point/Fixed-Point_Numbers With the answer "it doesn't exist"? (The Page is called "Floating Point/Fixed-Point Numbers" but instead of explaining the difference only explains...

ssilk wrote:

[...] the fixed-point float numbers [...]

An even better question, what is a fixed-point float number?

Probably that he would prefer or at least find it less confusing if factorio.com (mods.factorio.com) and forums.factorio.com use the same user-database and maybe even session-cookie. So you can just follow the link in the forum to the mod page and still be logged in. Maybe the accounts can be linked...

Supercheese wrote:Using bots to transfer filled barrels is very nice...
Sure beats the alternative: Pipe Hell.

How about liquid bots? And provider/requester/storage tanks?

Edit: Those tanks should probably be only 1x1 to be practical....

I can just suggest reading through this post viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18621
It's kind of long but will probably answer all your problems.

taiiat wrote:i see... 'train' isn't a Verb so therefore the confusion.

It kinda is. With the meaning of forming a "train" of biters.

I dont know why but in every version of factorio i first need to connect to a friend and then leave so he can connect to me as long as i didn't connect to them they cant connect to me and turning my antivirus and firewall off doesn't help and i also cant connect to 1 of my other friends so he cant ...

One of the categories you can set debug info to it's always True, but it's still a debug option. And apparently it's only available to show segments, not blocks and even this visualization is terrible, show_rail_paths or show_rail_connections has a much better visualization. But wit this I was able...

It requires 5 Iron to produce one steel, so if you have 1-4 iron loaded it can't produce anything. The problem is, that the inserter isn't smart enough to keep loading iron but tries to load something else (which doesn't fit) so it get's stuck loading for example copper ore and stone for your top fu...

True, but the consensus in IRC was, that block marking should not be a debug feature, but more like some usability like the inserter arrows etc.

The title says it all, when the full debug screen F7 is active and I move next to train-tracks the game crashes with the error msg "Wrong test path next rail logic". We found this out on IRC because we were locking for a way to show train-track-blocks visually, which F7 does (along with a ...

I think when you upload record times like this, you should always include all your settings, especially peacefull and increased resources...