Hmm ... I unlocked electric mining drills and I want to create a proper smelting setup. Let's see. They spit out an iron ore every 2 seconds? So that's 0.5/s. And my smelters they take 3.2 seconds to smelt an ore? Hmm, how does this fit together? Well, I need to transport ore, so let's work with the yellow belts. They transport 15 items per second, was that it? So if a miner takes 2 seconds to create an item, that means I need double the amount of miners! 30 miners to fill a yellow belt. I just put them all in a line and make sure it's roughly above 30 miners!And I can do the same calculations with my smelters. 3.2 times 15 = 48.This is not that hard. If I always calculate backwards - what I need to produce to fill a belt and then forwards, what I need to feed into a factory to produce a fully filled belt, I can calculate the perfect ratios! And Factorio always tells me what a machine produces every second, so I don't need to calculate crafting time times crafting speed to get the final result! When I started I confused these two terms!
Did the eggheads stop responding to your shitposting or something?
>>733747171It's not shitposting. It's what a smart person thinks, when he first tries Factorio and tries to figure out ratios.
