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I just started another playthrough of Factorio and I'm impressed just how well it manages to incorporate so many fundamental concepts in CS/CE. It's an incredi

I just started another playthrough of Factorio and I'm impressed just how well it manages to incorporate so many fundamental concepts in CS/CE. It's an incredibly useful tool for refreshing your memory of all that stuff you learned in college, but never applied in the real-world. I built an S-R Latch for turning on steam power to my base iff battery capacity falls below 10% and remain on until capacity is above 50%. That, and figuring out how to distribute goods evenly across n belts when you can only divide in half is pretty fun to figure out.

menage 6y ago
In my experience it's better (in terms of using solar vs steam) to turn it off much sooner than that (maybe 15% or 20%) so that you're minimizing the amount of wasted solar energy later in the day when the accumulators are full and the base isn't consuming all the solar output. You might end up with the steam turning on and off a couple of times over the course of a night, but it'll still be a shorter total time than if you wait until 50% to turn off.