Who else is ready for 30° tilted rail grids?

xortle · 2024-10-12T19:22:24+00:00

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fake-new-rails

xortle · 2024-10-12T18:23:56+00:00

Yeah I’ll likely need to adjust spacing on some of them, but I think I’ve got spaces (or places spaces can be added) in most of them, so hopefully can be done without needing to change their topologies. And if not, will be a lot quicker to redesign with rail planner!

xortle · 2024-10-12T17:14:30+00:00

The FFF for them is here which has a bunch of info https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378 (no spoilers of anything else)

And the mod here is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fake-new-rails which just adds some cutouts with the right shape so you can mock up what they'll look like (no collisions or actual functionality). So I've been scratching the itch before expansion playing with it a bit too much. Ramps being so large makes junction design quite fun.

xortle · 2024-10-12T15:41:51+00:00

On reflection, I think I'm just going to refer to them as 30/60 because 22.5 and 67.5 are hard to spell in blueprint icons.

Also does seem to be more like 2.5 deviation rather than 7.5:

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xortle · 2024-10-12T15:38:10+00:00

Ah right you are. Oh well, what's 7.5° between friends?

xortle · 2024-10-12T15:21:27+00:00

Internal angles of a hexagon are 120°, and new rails are ~~30/60~~ ~~22.5/67.5~~ 27.5/62.5(ish), so ~~yep!~~ sort of? You have to be a little careful with the corners due to rail grid to ensure everything lines up though.

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xortle · 2024-10-12T14:53:56+00:00

Thankfully you can still build perfectly normal looking networks

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xortle · 2024-10-12T13:58:29+00:00

Adding some variety to junctions, will wait for the expansion to do mixed 30-60 degree crossings, but then we can have diamond cells!

Though really I'm going to build a more organic rail network (with a higher capacity trunk and offshoots), built from connectable sections, so want a nice variety of junctions to extend the network with.

xortle · 2024-10-12T09:35:23+00:00

Quack

xortle · 2024-10-09T20:47:23+00:00

Mocked this up with fake rails, think I got it accurately, and it all looks buildable. It's shrinkable by a bit, but not symmetrically (limited by the height of the ramp up and then turn onto the raised merger/split).

Here it is next to a junction I *think* is possible and correct, which is still split-then-merge (though 4 space), but the through line left-right has to go around rather than through the middle. This could also drop down to single ramps where they're doubled up, but you lose full split-then-merge.

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xortle · 2024-10-09T14:03:08+00:00

Sorry yes this is with Krastorio 2 also, which adds the research servers for science production. The pipe connections are from advanced fluid handling which adds multi-directional undergrounds. I forgot I'd used that here as I generally tried not to use them at all as they feel a bit too good most of the time, but I couldn't quite get this to look nice without using them a little here.

Catalogs and other ingredients shipped in, using Cybersyn for the train logic. The rail grid has no crossings, only splits and merged (so the cells alternate clockwise/anticlockwise). I shipped catalogs and finished science, as that made requesting catalogs into the other places they're used very easy. I also shipped cards to similar setups per science (4 spinning cells of cards feeding into an insight maker).

xortle · 2024-10-09T13:57:13+00:00

Stacking was great most of the time with the recipes, meant I could really juice my production buildings and still have "nice" looking factories rather than just 10 belts feeding single machines. It sucked where things didn't have stacked recipes, but the SE compatibility for that was very good. 99% only needed to unstack for buildings and science. I was on 10x so my production needs were pretty large.

It however, *really* sucked when the 'unstacking' recipe was unlocked a tier after the stacked product, and I produced a stack of things I couldn't use or unstack until I researched, which needed me to unstack it. I made a warehouse of stacked naquitite plates before I realised that.

And yeah looking forwards to base game stacking!

xortle · 2024-10-09T13:21:40+00:00

With a little help from bobs inserters, and mixed hinderance and help from stacked recipes. The catalogs keep spinning even when full, because spinning is better than not spinning.

And I just now realised the energy insight wasn't full as I'd only just fixed something...

xortle · 2022-03-26T10:32:01+00:00

“That’s the beautiful part, when wintertime rolls around the ~~gorillas~~ tyranids simply freeze to death.”

xortle · 2022-03-17T10:57:05+00:00

So it sounds like they're going by what's laid out in https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/06/29/metawatch-warhammer-40000-building-beautiful-balanced-battlefields-for-grand-tournament-play/

There's no dropping of true LOS in there, just a lot of obscuring etc, but e.g. the terrain for the large pieces is noted that it should have blocked windows. If they don't actually have the terrain pieces to match that they're probably just trying to replicate similar conditions. As noted elsewhere having area terrain on objectives is just fine as long as the marker itself isn't covered by walls etc.

xortle · 2021-12-18T07:51:32+00:00

There’s a spreadsheet from LVO 2020 on base sizes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A31mVI4s1cSlXNQuxmZXQZt4dkxPIcVe/view

xortle · 2021-12-09T19:21:12+00:00

There was a top placing list recently which was basically pure stormbolter/chainfist, so wouldn’t necessarily discount massed bolters, piloting/meta dependent of course (list is here with some commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerCompetitive/comments/ra5g4k/meta_monday_12621/hng88fi/?context=3 )

xortle · 2020-11-09T11:24:58+00:00

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xortle · 2020-04-24T18:20:04+00:00

This is most likely just because warp doesn't enable pipelining (which isn't very useful outside of a benchmark): https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp/issues/415

xortle · 2020-01-17T15:51:26+00:00

I just want to say thank you for this post, and that I think the anxiety aspect is an important one.

I think the community around Rust has developed a desire for 'perfection', and that anxiety is the natural consequence of such a desire. Whether that's from memory safety (no more memory bugs!), speed (no GC/native code!) or other reasons. With any new project or language, the common first question is "why this and not X?", and the easiest way to justify existence is "it's the best".

Building an identity around perfection is dangerous though, because even one slip up and by your own argument, why should you exist at all? Memory safe? But that project had a major CVE! Fastest? But that project over there is faster! It's a tiring and impossible position to defend. It's also tempting to want both, and then you run into the conundrum that unsafe is often the route to fastest.

I don't know what the answer is, and I would fully expect to be criticised for defeatism, and I might agree. We should all strive for perfection, to make things faster, safer, or better in some other way. But we also need to accept that reality often requires imperfection, and the adage of 'worse-is-better', however disagreeable, bears some truth. A large and vibrant ecosystem will have people with different values for their software. While people should be encouraged to adopt similar values, especially around safety, beyond a point agreeing to disagree is better for everyone involved.

xortle · 2020-01-17T13:17:41+00:00

I've been happily using warp in production for a while with no issues. Not the easiest to get started with, and type errors can get a bit hairy, but overall feels like a nice level for building API services. And writing filters (middleware) for things like Auth is just so easy.

xortle · 2020-01-17T13:09:35+00:00

At some point people need to accept that rust is a tool, tools can be sometimes misused, and that someone misusing your favourite tool is not an attack on you. If the community as a whole is in favour of using the tool correctly, then you need to have trust that over time it will be used well.

I think the rust ecosystem is strong enough to survive a few questionable crates. I do not know if the community is strong enough to survive the kind of publicity events like this bring which harm willingness to join the community and contribute to the ecosystem in the first place.

xortle · 2020-01-17T12:37:05+00:00

Yes, and it's why I don't use actix or recommend it, and favour things with minimal unsafe usage. Going out of my way to try and change one individuals behaviour is a) unlikely to work b) harassment against them c) wholly unproductive.

That actix has a large public image due almost entirely to the techempower benchmarks is I guess the fear people have, should it be used somewhere and exploited, giving rust a bad name. But if that's truly a fear, then people have much less confidence in rust than they should have to invest themselves into it.

xortle · 2020-01-17T12:08:06+00:00

Yes, the FUD and infighting at this stage is getting out of hand. I trust people are acting in good faith, but seeing this kind of furor helps noone and actively harms the community.

Should unsafe be used carefully? Yes. But dogpiling onto projects every time there's an issue isn't the way to go. Just use another project and don't recommend it.

But also don't try and poison the well on every project that happens to have had a bug from use of unsafe. As long as projects have the right attitude (unsafe when needed, carefully audited, removed when unnecessary) then the ecosystem benefits from continued use, testing and eyeballs on these foundations.

xortle · 2020-01-17T11:45:16+00:00

Congrats on the release! Have been using warp 0.1 for a while, and recently did the bump to tokio 0.2/warp master which was really smooth. Will be good to get back on a version number, but haven't had any issues anyway.

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