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KirkMcDonald / kirkmcdonald.github.io

Simple web-based calculator for the game Factorio.
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Blue circuits calculating quantity of green circuits per second incorrectly #206

Closed adamreiswig closed 4 years ago

adamreiswig commented 4 years ago

The website is saying I need 20 green circuits per blue circuit when I mouse over the icon but the calculation is coming out to 24 instead. 20 blue circuit factories (assembler 2) should need 2 full yellow belts of green circuits (30 per second) but the calculator is telling me it needs 36 green circuits per second. In game, I have a build of 20 assembler 2s for blue circuits and they perfectly consume 2 yellow belts of green circuits. I'm pretty sure the calculator is in error but if I'm misunderstanding something about it, I'd love to be educated.

DRY411S commented 4 years ago

You are misunderstanding something. :)

The calculator output includes the green circuit makers needed for the red circuits.

If you tell the calculator to ignore the red circuits, by clicking on the red circuit icon in the output, you will see the green circuit calculation that you expected. It will also reduce the number of copper wire assemblers, smelters, .miners, plastic, refineries and fluids.

Like so: https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#data=1-0-0&min=2&items=processing-unit:f:20&ignore=advanced-circuit

Clicking the orange icon on the right hand side of the screen, is a good way of seeing what's required for each intermediate product. For example, the red circuits that you just excluded! https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#data=1-0-0&min=2&items=advanced-circuit:r:180

adamreiswig commented 4 years ago

Well, you are correct and now I feel like an idiot for wasting your time. I've been using this tool for a while and I can't believe I missed that. Thanks for the reply!