... Now that I'm actually forcing myself to use amphibious vehicles (and take extra steps to inhibit a certain truck-related glitch that makes them impractical...), I double support this. Amphibious trucks are great, but they look a bit silly driving on the ocean's surface as if it were bumpy but solid land.
And a proper dredging ship probably wouldn't have the "only 5 tiles deep" restriction t…
For reproduction... I think it was the "spread excavators out" function (which is very useful for several other mining scenarios, as it makes excavators far less prone to digging narrow, col…
... I also just noticed that the tools unlocked by the Tools research... can be accessed before the research, by hotkey- all except for Planning Mode.
I think it was ever since Update 3, the ship is completely undamaged when you start a new world, rather than before it was pretty damaged and actually required repair. Is it weird that I miss having to fix the ship?
The new game welcome message still says the ship took a lot of damage, t…
Something that's gotten my attention time and time again, is trains staging through stations they shouldn't be touching during backups- and on very large backups with very complex networks and lots of trains, the constant pathing (I think it's the pathing) of the trains trying to find alternate routes causes a huge amount of lag.
So can we get a feature on the waypoint stations that says "D…
Ahh! I see what the problem is. It's on the other side, over on the far left. See how the slider is in the "always allow trains" position?
Notch it out of that and it'll enable that button:
It's most pronounced when the straight is a steep upgrade and the train is fully-loaded (such that it requi…
My thought for an "ideal" fix would be to enable connectors to have supports (as I suggested up by the antigravity-belt-over-train-tracks above), which would tend to remove the ability to remove supports, then leave the current antigravity belt glitch as-is to avoid destroying existing builds, or causing any annoying glitch-collapses during previously-valid construction caused by the sometimes w…
To make terrain "ribbing" like this easier:
I would also appreciate drag-placement when copy-pasting surfaces; it doesn't work right now, I have to actually click on every position. That can be a pain when using one surface for the flats, and another for the slopes, on this kind of ribbi…
... but they're not. By which I mean, this is a perfectly reasonable error:
However, if I simply push F to flip the placement...
I have tested, it does not become part of the…
I'm highly lag-tolerant, so on my current world, I've gotten a pretty consistent 10-15 FPS with frequent dips to 5 or so lately. This chart seems to explain why:
I've read in Captain's Diaries that the pathing system lives on its own thread, and that's great- lag spikes are almost never cau…
For some reason, these mega-excavators making a single-tile-deep cut on dirt that's only a single tile deep over bedrock look like they're taking handfuls out of a brownie pan.
Possibly worth note? That concrete paving is flat, and the cut is coplanar with it. The bricks are sloped up t…
Yup, I've got virtual memory disabled as well, 32GB is the stable minimum for disabling it. Still recommended to have it, since then the system can send "cache" data to virtual memory, but...
That said, even with my 32GB, if I load too many Chrome tabs, I can still cause CoI (or other applications) to memory-choke, so I have to be careful. Usually surfaces as "failed to save game" rather than…
The sorting rules on this chart are not clear, but seem to be related to the total combined amount of the three bars. As a result, on a busy, many-product network like mine, they have a habit of moving around- which makes the chart near-impossible to use when the game isn't paused. Can we get …
Could not allocate memory: System out of memory!
That's pretty early in the crash log. Try closing other applications- especially Google Chrome, it's a real memory hog- while you are playing. You can also launch Task Manager (ctrl+shift+escape) and sort by memory usage to see what to consider closing, like so:
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15GB "free space" but write errors for lack of space? Might be reserved space for system stability. You could try defragmenting the drive, as that will tend to consolidate remaining space, but emptying the recycle bin and/or uninstalling large applications- CoI is one of those itself, but something tells me you don't want to remove that one- are your best bet.
Well, that and upgrading to a larger…
... Yeah, that's what I meant. It's been a few days since I last played, it's easy to forget the names. Pipe sorter doesn't exist in vanilla, balancer very much does and is what I was describing. I use it all the time to ensure that my diesel-fed petroleum refinery (via the diesel-gold-crude trade loop) prioritizes feeding itself over sending fuel to the train for the rest of the factory, …
If you open the game properties in the Steam client, then go under "Versions and Betas", you can play on 0.8.5 now by launching with the Experimental branch, rather than the default Stable branch. Alternately, you can wait for the next update, and receive 0.8.5 with the people like me that prefer the stability of the Stable branch.
If you put a pipe sorter along the input line and priority into the tank you want to fill first, it won't divert any flow- assuming input and output lines are the same size- until after the priority tank is full.
I like this. These ships also won't be subject to vehicle restriction violations...