Re: Factorio
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:37 am
Oh. That could work. It didn't occur to me.
Indeed, an indefinite rail loop (ie. a train hamster wheel that will keep it going full pelt until out of gas) has already been developed and posted to the forums, and test comparisons could provide some solid data on the relationship between straight track and curved.
Yet my extreme ribbon is not without it's unique strengths:
- ample room for testing stupidly-long trains: my first planned test is 777 locomotives hauling 7,777 fluid wagons. ∞
- submitting the map has potential to help the devs optimize performance: something very fishy is happening with my framerate while laying track
- probing the limits of blueprints: gonna see whether or not a BP can handle describing 500 thousand rails in a line