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Some idiot once told me I shouldn't use conveyors because conveyors don't scale (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/satisfactory@lemmy.world
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They scale just fine. Plus, they have no ongoing fuel or electricity costs.

A screenshot with lots of stacked conveyor belts, up to 32 stacks high.
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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's really old code that I think the devs are scared to touch in case they break something. It uses floating point numbers, so you can never fully utilise a pipe, it'll be 599.999pm instead of 600pm. You can't keep the fluid flowing because it takes it in chunks.

I had multiple factories working fine, but after many many hours of it slowly being 0.00001 off somewhere due to a rounding error, it stopped working and brought many lines to a halt.

It needs updating really badly. But I just think the devs are content with how it is now and don't want to risk breaking things more than they already are. Which is unfortunate. I mean if they release a DLC, I really hope they tackle all the issues first.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I had multiple factories working fine, but after many many hours of it slowly being 0.00001 off somewhere due to a rounding error, it stopped working and brought many lines to a halt.

    Why not just give your fluid pipelines some margin for error?

    For example, if a set of machines needs 200 units per minute, make sure the production and pipeline supplying them can supply at least 210 units per minute. Your fluid production won't be quite 100% utilized all the time, but it means your fluid-dependent machines will never have this 'rounding error' issue and it will never slow down the rest of the factory.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I do, but its still not good enough sometimes, especially if height changes are involved. In my most recent factory i had a surplus of 5pm in a pipe and the fluid still slowly went missing. It's too buggy. The point is, I shouldnt have to. If I put 600pm into a pipe, 600pm should come out.

    You can work around things as much as you want to "finish" the game. If you want to actually sandbox and build a factory, you end up fighting the game more than actually building.

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