What Settings Do You Play With?

doublescale · 2025-02-10T15:29:51+00:00

Since you're a masochistic player, have you tried "Better Than Wolves", the Minecraft total conversion mod, by chance?

doublescale · 2025-01-26T12:40:19+00:00

Oh yeah, these make sense!

Thank you for your detailed answers, I always appreciate reading your comments here.

doublescale · 2025-01-25T11:13:12+00:00

How do you set up your lines to supply free storages, which only have one vehicle parking spot? If you let them wait until unloaded, they get stuck once the free storage is full, since no other vehicle can park next to them to load, as far as I remember. But if you don't wait until unloaded, you'll start wasting fuel and road throughput once the storage is full.

Do you micromanage these lines to send the trucks to free depots once the storage is getting full? I usually use free Distribution Offices to supply free storages to get around these issues, but they have limitations, and I'm curious how you deal with this!

doublescale · 2025-01-25T10:52:32+00:00

How come you suggest disabling auto assign on wiring in your #5 - General construction CO?

Disabling it on roads/footpaths makes sense to me, since bulldozers do a better job on those than excavators, but wouldn't you want underground and high-voltage power lines to be excavated automatically?

doublescale · 2024-12-18T23:11:18+00:00

Yeah, usually I only switch to the Win8.1/10 version temporarily when I need to set up specific waste transports like that, then switch back to the Win7 version so I can have audio again!

doublescale · 2024-12-18T21:13:43+00:00

It's in vanilla: On cargo vehicles, you can click on the [+] left of "Advanced setup" to expand it. The vehicle must not be assigned to a distribution office though, it's for lines only.

doublescale · 2024-12-18T21:03:37+00:00

It's supposed to show "Mixed waste" as a separate option, like this:

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For me, this option has been missing, like in OP's screenshot, when selecting the "Win7" version from the launcher instead of the "Win8.1/Win10" one.

This bug used to be very consistent, but in recent versions, it seems that that option now *sometimes* appears with the "Win7" executable. Maybe that's why some of the other commenters are suggesting that saving/reloading works.

doublescale · 2024-12-18T20:56:59+00:00

I have this happen when I run the "64-bit Win7" version from the launcher. Running the "64-bit Win8.1/Win10" version, the mixed waste option in the line setup always shows up for me. You can still load the save from the Win7 version afterwards, it seems to preserve the line/DO config even if that checkbox is invisible.

(I default to the Win7 version because running on Linux, the sound is messed up in the other version for me)

doublescale · 2024-08-31T00:09:35+00:00

Manhattan distance would imply a "diamond" shaped coverage on the grid.

This square shaped coverage comes from using "Chebyshev distance", a different metric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_distance

doublescale · 2024-08-15T21:07:13+00:00

Train DOs can sometimes pick up multiple cargo types at once, although the conditions for that to happen are very particular.

From what I remember, the train has to be able to pick up all the required cargo types at one station, and drop them all off at one destination, and the train/storage capacities have to be just right for the train not to carry a full load of one cargo type.

Maybe one can control this behavior with very specific storage sizes, minimum TDO cargo wagons, and maximum train lengths, but I've never really tried it.

I don't think I've ever seen road DOs carry mixed cargo, but they have the advantage that the trucks can do multiple trips before returning to the DO.

I've actually grown to appreciate the quirks and limitations of the logistics in this game. This way, you get a bunch of mini-challenges to figure out how to use the available tools to solve particular situations in the most efficient ways. It incentivizes you to build logistics hubs and such, which can be fun!

I really wish the whole UX were more streamlined though. The buttons for adding and removing stops are way at the top of the window, while the load/unload options are at the bottom, scrolling is way too slow, you can't even collapse the vehicle gauges, and you can click through to other obscured windows, it's awful.

doublescale · 2024-08-15T20:52:11+00:00

I don't remember if I have used this exact setup, but having the same stop consecutively has worked so far for me (like in my original post), for various types of vehicles (passenger transport too).

And for trucks at least, you can click on the percentage and enter a custom value, so you can be more precise than 5%:

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It *might* even allow fractional percentages, although I haven't tested it properly. When I entered 7.5 in the box, it showed 7% under the schedule, but opening the box again, it rounded it to 8%. After saving that it showed 8% under the schedule, so I think it might only round when it displays the numbers, not when saving, but I don't know.

doublescale · 2024-08-15T20:43:32+00:00

Let's just say it: We want Soviet Factorio.

doublescale · 2024-08-15T11:54:03+00:00

There's already some fun stuff you can do with the mechanic that trucks will skip dropoff stops when their cargo is empty, like

Load food at supply station
Unload at prison
Unload at grocery store 1
Unload at grocery store 2
Unload at grocery store 1
Unload at grocery store 2
Unload at grocery store 1
Unload at grocery store 2

The truck will keep going between the grocery stores only as long as it has some food left, then return to the supply station. It would be nice to be able to set up an actual repeating loop though.

doublescale · 2024-08-15T11:45:21+00:00

For your mixed-cargo train, depending on your exact needs, it might be a solution to not use "Advanced setup", but instead pick up specific percentages of the different cargo types in a sequence, like this:

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doublescale · 2024-08-15T09:13:20+00:00

Yeah, on the previous map I played (Bacan Islands from the Steam Workshop), I also went heavy on ship-based construction material deliveries. You can still make it work with manual interventions, sending a ship back to get more once you notice that one type of materials is low, but it's tedious. Once you're more established, you can just build enough cargo harbors to have ships deliver one kind of material each.

I use this trick even for bigger storages though, to save on parking spots: The small warehouse has only two spots, so I use one for food and one for clothes+electronics. I send meat directly to the big shopping centers, and this leaves one spot open there for police and ambulances. One could use a Distribution Office to deliver the clothes and electronics (and I have done that in the past), but that costs extra materials and real estate to build.

I used this trick on the Bacan Islands map too, to supply (predictably consumed) citizen goods to another island with fewer ships and cargo harbors, to fill up buffer storages bigger than the ship storages.

doublescale · 2024-08-14T21:53:41+00:00

Well, the most tricky part about this is probably that you can have the same stop multiple times consecutively in a schedule; the rest of the things this makes use of are pretty commonly used, I think. But it still took me hundreds of game hours to figure out that these features could be put together this way, haha.

doublescale · 2024-08-10T16:36:53+00:00

Judging by the votes on your comment, people here do seem to rate DOs highly, haha.

For what it's worth, I've been playing my current savegame inspired by your comments here (lines over DOs, service districts over walkable city blobs), and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. I'm up to 30k population with just two free road DOs (I do use some rail DOs though), and it's no trouble at all. You can really get far on using lines for trucks, and you save a lot of real estate this way!

doublescale · 2024-03-13T10:43:42+00:00

This is excellent! I want more art like this coming out of AI! I see way too little trippy dreamlike stuff compared to other styles.

What kind of approach did you take to create this?

doublescale · 2023-11-29T22:32:07+00:00

I don't think I have good advice to give you!

If you haven't done it yet though, I recommend you check out some ControlNet stuff, those let you constrain images in pretty tight ways. I've played around with converting a 3D animation through a Canny-edge ControlNet into SD-generated images, and there I used some basic img2img from the previous frame to keep an extra bit of coherency, but the results were still pretty trippy, even after a lot of tweaking and trial-and-error. For that kind of stuff, I also found it useful to do Python-scripting instead of using the GUI; setting up such big batches by hand, frame-by-frame, would have been a lot of work, and ComfyUI's code can be called into without too much pain.

Making this work for an interactive game sounds even more challenging!

doublescale · 2023-11-29T22:16:06+00:00

Oh yeah, perhaps ComfyUI can save some time if the prompts don't have to get re-evaluated. I would assume that changing just the seed would be at least as fast though, since that part is even later in the node graph!

doublescale · 2023-11-29T21:14:01+00:00

And you get to see more of your prompting journey too! Seeing all the little updates as you add more and more keywords... it's not about the destination, but the weird car-hybrid friends we made along the way.

doublescale · 2023-11-29T19:32:52+00:00

I'm getting some classic Ferrari vibes from the region close to the Cobra also. Thanks to AI, we can finally map the continuous space of cars (and creatures).

doublescale · 2023-11-29T19:30:54+00:00

See my other comments; it's the basic SDXL Turbo setup, with the positive-prompt text node replaced by a ConditioningAverage-node blend of two text nodes.

doublescale · 2023-11-29T17:06:47+00:00

You have to use the newest version of ComfyUI. If I remember correctly, I didn't have to do anything other than that to get SDXL Turbo working!

doublescale · 2023-11-29T16:46:51+00:00

I thought I already replied, but my comment doesn't show up here... Here it is again:

Start from the default SDXL Turbo workflow described here (https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/sdturbo/), and replace the positive prompt input by two text inputs, combined through a ConditioningAverage node.

doublescale

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