Bay 12 Games’ co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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    4 days ago

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

    • greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
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      4 days 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.