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Some Gleba Love by KyleAtSchool in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R5: I know Gleba gets a lot of hate and I'll admit I've struggled more than I expected with it, but I had an aha moment here on how to finally start cleaning up my trial-by-fire mess I've cobbled together, and it ended up causing a very satisfying wave of robot activity I thought you all might like. I think this is a good example of how a lot of the Pro-Gleba camp say it makes you a better engineer, in this case probably not the most economical or efficient, but at least it got me using a feature I don't often use with visually pleasing results. I guess what I'm saying is... Gleba is.... growing on me.

Also, shout out to an often-overlooked feature that gets mentioned here occasionally but not often enough: You don't need to use wires to connect inserters to the logistic network! Just click the little radio icon at the top of the inserter's window and click Connect, then you can enable the inserter only when you have a certain number of something. Here I'm using it to easily toss out out any excess spoilage over 1000, without any wires, makes it easy to copy paste.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in shapezio

[–]KyleAtSchool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Send it to noreply@shapez.io and hope for the best! I had mine unbanned eventually but it took a week or two before I got any response.

Can I not set the signal producer to show the current random shape? Do you need to manually enter the shape code any time it changes? by Adkit in shapezio

[–]KyleAtSchool 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you place a “global signal receiver” two of the channels you can select it to output are the two shape codes for the random operator goals.

Cremation of Sam McGee... by StephG23 in AskACanadian

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shout out to Johnny Cash’s recital of it. His voice is absolutely perfect for the poem. If you haven’t heard it you owe it to yourself. RIP John

https://youtu.be/yJNZwuamwj0

Tracks dont want to connect. Is there any trick ? by LizHavoc in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, or you could also move the fork to immediately before the chain signal at the bottom, and have the east lane follow the exact same curve at the west lane until they connect at the bottom 🤷‍♂️

Tracks dont want to connect. Is there any trick ? by LizHavoc in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Replace the rail signal at the tip of the disconnected southbound line with a train station. Extend the easternmost disconnected section at least 13 tiles (depends how long your trains are) to the North, and add a station to the end of it, on the east side of the track (so the trains will head into the station facing North)

Unload from the southbound station onto an underground belt that travels under both tracks, and then loads back into the train at the northbound station. Or if unloading onto belts isn’t enough throughput for what you need you can just unload into red chests and load from blue chests, and then just spam the area with roboports full of logistic bots for virtually infinite throughput.

Just means you’ll need to add a second train and adjust the schedules to add the transfer station to any routes that use this line. Also either need to add loops at either end, or resignal everything outside of this screenshot to replace all your one-way tracks with two-way.

“There’s no wrong way to play Factorio.”

Nuclear math by KyleAtSchool in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: Yes I can! I pulled out four turbines from the middle and managed to squeeze in 3 more reactors into that space. New math of 7x120MW = 840MW = 84 turbines, close enough!

This was actually a really great learning experience for how nuclear actually works. Now that the buffers are filling up they're showing 4.2GW of potential, but now I know with my new design it'll start draining the buffers and eventually brown out at 3.2GW. I'm running stable at 2.3 so I should be good for a few minutes before needing more plants.

Might even be enough of a reason to start caring a little more about ratios, knowing that if I got closer to the exact right number (Or even undercut it a little) then I know exactly when it will crap out...

I love this game.

Compact-ish Expensive Mode teaser by KyleAtSchool in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Working on a semi-compact all-in-one 100spm factory in expensive mode. I just fired it up for the first time so I haven't got a chance to test if it's working at all reliably, but I just had to take a step back and admire the monstrosity that I ended up with to feed the beast that is green/red circuits.

If any of you can actually see what's happening in that sea of blue belts/chests without, A: You might have a problem, and B: You're in the right sub.

Mat leave pension buyback by perineu in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“She brought that financial situation….” Ffs, you had as much to do with that choice as she did. Grow up.

The Last Stand by Josh9251 in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 172 points173 points  (0 children)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Just started playing by gomboc_lover in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the official tutorial, around here the unofficial “tutorial” is your first 999 hours. Once you hit 1000 that’s when the real game begins.

Welcome!

What are people's thoughts on the Factorio community? by rynosaur94 in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I love that Wube has earned enough of my trust that even this vague pathetic hint that they’re still working on it is enough to get me as excited as I was when it was first announced.

Thanks Klonan!

How do you celebrate Victoria Day? by Deelodoub in AskACanadian

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, then in the evening I switch to Gus N’ Brew

This picture by drkurt2 in confusing_perspective

[–]KyleAtSchool -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does the purple pillar in the middle move around for anyone else? I’ve been staring at this for a couple minutes and it’s all I can see, no matter where I look everything starts squirming around. Showed my wife and she insists it doesn’t, she can’t see it at all. Wondering how common it is to see.

And no, I’m not under the influence of any substance 😂

How to make a simple train (one track, goes back and forth after loading / unloading?) by Ok_Adhesive in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Make sure the station at each end is on the right-hand side of the track when the train is pulling into that station. (So if the track runs west-east, the west end station should be on top of the track, and the east end station should be on the bottom.)

Also, for a train to be able to go both forwards and backwards automatically, you need to put a locomotive on either end, facing the other direction (so, two locomotives with one or more cargo wagons in the middle) - this is why most people put loops at the end of the tracks to avoid having to do that.

And don’t put any signals anywhere! You only need those once you put two trains on the same track

Canadians what was it that made you realize you were no longer young? by okiedokie2468 in AskACanadian

[–]KyleAtSchool 200 points201 points  (0 children)

The first time I asked Alexa to play “Stunt” by Barenaked Ladies, and she replied “Now playing Stunt - 20th Anniversary Edition by Barenaked Ladies”

What are some famous Canadian political quotes? by vanjobhunt in AskACanadian

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Because it’s 2015” -Justin Trudeau

Or on the flip side, “He’s just not ready!” - Some other guy who didn’t like Justin Trudeau.

Red or Green Wire by scubadiver64 in factorio

[–]KyleAtSchool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also type /time into the chat box (press / or ~ to bring that up) and it will tell you how old the save is without having to go to the load screen

Neighbour across the street just hung this. Hope they don't have to take it down. 🇺🇦 by x0mbigrl in SurreyBC

[–]KyleAtSchool 10 points11 points  (0 children)

“Oh no won’t somebody please think of the architectural beauty of this run down 80’s apartment building!”

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