Excitedly getting monologued to about niche things that are like magic to me is the best. Learning just enough about someone’s interest to use all the words wrong though is what really gets me going

The crusher kicking on is most of the power grid issues. I suppose replacing the collector and crusher with more storage and launching ice/iron/carbon up could work depending on how much is needed per trip

Fascinating, I like this idea

Without the accumulator then sometimes the dips in power can slow the system just enough to cause fuckery with fuel production. That said it would probably be better to just have two solar panels than a solar and an accumulator because as I found out just recently, one solar panel is not enough to go to/from Fulgora reliably. Also the front-facing solar panel sometimes gets hit so uh, repair packs and maybe a spare couple solar panels in storage is advised

Shortly after getting my steam deck and seriously learning Linux past tiny personal servers, I got divorced

All our internal R&D docs refer to it as aerodynamics. I will have to issue an internal review to determine if they’re aware we’re building a space ship not a plane, it could explain the pushback we got when requesting the removal of wings in an early design

Well the 12 parsec shortcut is common knowledge at this point. That’s about 3.7e+14km, say 40km/s average speed because acceleration doesn’t seem to be a thing in Factorio for 9.27e+12 seconds, or a little over 293,000 Earth years. As long as the flight path doesn’t include having to shoot at asteroids I suppose because this model can’t self sustain ammo, or maybe it needs a fleet of ammo ships sent to keep it supplied…

The idea of this design is to make a little fleet of them so we really want to nail the design before copy/pasting. I think we’re just about there

We’re planning to run a new year’s special! Buy 3 at full price get 2 more at 12% off the first one and 9% off the second one but if you get 6 at full price then the discounts on the first set of discounted ones goes up by fifty percent!

It doesn’t move very fast and is a bit inconsistent. So I guess that depends on if spending more time up front to build a faster ship outweighs being able to launch something like this earlier

You can actually differentiate a real Deliverator from a knock off by inspecting the Blinky Lights and their Blinky Logic

I wonder if I could tie the Blinky Logic to an existing combinator and remove the dedicated timer combinator

I consider $100k to be minimum wage in Seattle. It was just enough to not be constantly money stressed as long as I was living modestly. I could see doctors, invest in hobbies, have choices in food, build savings/retirement. Could not eat out every day, buy a house any time soon, or impulse buy particularly expensive stuff. Any time I made less than $100k here I felt like I was always two steps behind, at about that salary my life stopped focusing on scraping by. I make more now and I feel like I’m actually thriving here. Still quite a difference in what I’d consider to be middle class though like there’s no way I can get a house here and I’d for sure be much worse off if I had kids

Behold, The Deliverator Slim. Storage tanks are a thing of the past

You asked and we delivered: The Deliverator Slim

Speed is real inconsistent not going to lie. Anywhere from about 15-45 between Gleba and Nauvis, depending on where it is in the path and what part of the cycle the chem plant is in. I’d say maybe an average of 25 but I haven’t actually tried to measure it

Thank you <3

I’ve been having a lot of fun making small builds centered around set recipes logic. They’re not exactly time or throughput efficient but they’re an interesting puzzle

We got rid of our ozone layer ages ago

Thank you, should be all set up now in theory

So far speed has not been a concern for The Deliverator. I will let our R&D department know about the width situation though and see what they can think up