Yeah, in just going to wait for the real thing.
Um. What's the Quality feature? Lol, I don't really follow along the devlogs
Um. What's the Quality feature? Lol, I don't really follow along the devlogs
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Friday Facts #375 - Quality | Factorio
Hello, Today we are going to talk a little bit about a big feature in the expansion, Quality!
short story, you can now craft purple items.
Ah, thank you for that. Interesting. That's going to make some things interesting mid-game and onward.Friday Facts #375 - Quality | Factorio
Hello, Today we are going to talk a little bit about a big feature in the expansion, Quality!factorio.com
short story, you can now craft purple items.
until you research it, quality doesn't exist, so there is an easy way to avoid it if you are afraid your ratios will be thrown off if you have a random higher quality assembler out there. It can jam belts/splitters/etc if you dont plan for it.
Yeah, read the whole thing, that's what the recyclers are for, from what I read. Doesn't mean design is easy, and it looks like you can filter for quality, which would be important to pull off the quality that you want to move on to the next line.
I foresee some giant Factorissimo usage to pull off and get rid of the lower/no quality parts eventually. Just way over-supply recycling and such.
I foresee some giant Factorissimo usage to pull off and get rid of the lower/no quality parts eventually. Just way over-supply recycling and such.
yeah, you can filter based on quality on a splitter or inserter. Normal goes on, everything else goes to Somwhere Else.
I would throw away every single improvement for the "bots always go towards the destination when out of energy"
Concave roboport networks huzzah!
Concave roboport networks huzzah!
2.0 release date announcement coming next week! Guess I won’t finish SE in time.
They announced a release date for the release date announcement....
Lot of interesting stuff coming in the new version. The Wiki has a summary.
Lot of interesting stuff coming in the new version. The Wiki has a summary.
The new train stuff, circuits and fluids, new bot pathing, super force build have me 11/10 excited, let alone everything else.
The new fluid dynamics are going to make so many things easier.
The new fluid dynamics are going to make so many things easier.
I briefly dipped into the official forum, and apparently the new fluid system has a lot of people annoyed. "Takes away the challenge" and stuff like that. I'm with you; the old system was janky and sometimes unpredictable as soon as you started building big enough to come even close to the nominal flow limits. All sorts of arcane formulae, plus some stuff like "for junctions, the order in which the pipes were built matters" which is great fun when you're using bots to build large blueprints...
This is why I used this mod. Allowed much larger fluid networks over great distances but has a greater material cost along with needing to step up for distribution and step back down for delivery.
Yeah, the new fluid dynamics is going to be a real good thing. Plenty of challenges still, and plenty of modding can make it even more so!
One thing which was mentioned in passing in yesterday's FFF is that between the new buildings, the "quality" upgrades, and the new belts + stacking, bandwidth and production rates have gotten much bigger. The casual mention was that one of the test playthroughs was almost, but not quite, at 1 million science per minute. Which would put it squarely in the range of some of the biggest hundred+ server cluster events. But just running on one dev's computer.
The devs agree that fluids don't need to be "easy" but that things like junction thoughput is dependant on what pipe got placed in what order was never intended and isn't fun.