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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Isn't a pure square grid inefficient, because trains get stuck? That happened to my square grid megabases, so I stopped doing them.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Occasionally I'd get jams. The jams would manifest with a train sat occupying the corner, so i put a circuit in each one that sets off an alarm after 60 seconds of being continuously blocked. Then I'd investigate.

    Generally, given that my stations only became available if they had > 1.0wagonscapacity*stacksize the trains mostly sat in "parking" waiting or at "parking" nearer the raw resource in the far outposts.

    It required a little tuning, some modules have a lead-in perimeter loop where 5-6 trains can be stacked waiting to unload.

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