Fot the moment, it has worked everytime (including K2, let’s see how it goes with current run of B&A) and the main plus (IMHO) is that I don’t end up with a base that looks the same every run.
After making my starter base, I was working on a train system using train limits, circuits, and bidirectional 3-8-3 trains. I realized the scale was too large for me, and I wanted something smaller and simpler. I had also messed up the fueling system, and wanted to redesign it....
Have a dedicated refueling line. This one is a bit special and probably with a 1-1 train it’ll be enough. This line should go from “fuel pickup -> fuel drop off”. Maybe, down the line, more than one refueling train will be needed. Your fuel drop off should refuel this line first. This way, as you progress you just need to change what’s in “fuel pickup” and all your trains will (eventually) use your new fuel.
Have a* refueling area where all your trains are refueled. Think of having 5-10 (as many as you need) stations in parallel, all canned exactly the same (i.e “Refuel”) *These stations might become a traffic bottleneck so you might want to have a few returning areas scattered around. For automatic schedule you can use a few seconds of inactivity as a condition.
Have a parking area. Think of 10 stations all named exactly the same (i.e. “Parking”). These might also become a traffic bottleneck so you might want to have a few of these areas scattered around. Use no condition in the schedule, so trains won’t stop unless they have nowhere to go. It’s important to consider these areas, as you don’t want a train which can’t pickup anything blocking a refueling station.
Name every pickup station type exactly the same (i.e. 1-4 Iron Ore Pickup) Use amount of material in the station as a condition to set train limit (and not enable/disable station). You can use circuits to set exactly the number of trains you can serve but I usually don’t bother. If you can request 3 trains, you need to make sure that there’s space to park 2 trains by the station where they won’t interrupt traffic. I did it simpler to just have multiple pickup stations in parallel and depending on waiting material request 1 or 0 trains. As multiple trains would be waiting anyway, I prefer them being loaded. This might not be the most efficient way but I think it’s simpler. For the scheduler you’d use full cargo OR Time passed. If a couple of minutes have gone by, have the train depart and not wait anymore.
Name every drop of station exactly the same (following the iron ore example, 1-4 Iron Ore Drop Off) As schedule conditions you’d use Empty Cargo OR Time passed. If a couple minutes go by, have the train depart and not wait anymore. You’d use circuits to keep requesting trains until the station has stopped as many material as you want. Keep in mind that if you request more than one train, you’ll need space for the remaining trains to wait without interrupting traffic.
Your train schedule should look like (adjust times add needed):
Refuel: Inactivity > 5 sec
Parking: No conditions
1-4 Resource Pickup: Full Cargo OR Time Passed > 60
1-4 Resource Drop Off: Empty Cargo OR Time passed > 60
You can repeat parking, pickup, drop off a few times to minimize refueling (be careful not to do this too many times so your trains spend all their fuel before refueling) If you do, remember that after drop off you should always go to parking.
Once you have the schedule set up for a train, you can copy it with shift+right click and paste with shift+left click.
Finally, it’s important to use train limit instead of enable / disable.
Using the former, over a train has departed, if the station changes and requests 0 trains, the train will keep going.
If you use disable, if a train departs and the station becomes disabled, the train will stop in the middle of nowhere, potentially causing a gridlock.
PS: I usually name my stations with the type of train, so if later I decide to bring ore from an outpost far away, I can make a few exchanging hubs with 3-8, 4-16, … bringing materials and 1-4 distributing then around the base
This is not complete by any means but this is what I did (recently):
Explore around: Currently there's an influx of new user and communities (subreddits) being created. Total users has doubled (give it take) in 10 days. Active monthly users has increased 6x in the same 10 days
Try to engage: For many (most?) of us this is a brand new place. Not so long ago it felt rather quiet (I remember taking a look a few months back and thinking "It's a cool idea but there's not enough content") As a forever lurker, this has been easier said than done. The vibe I get (YMMV) is from early Slashdot / Slashdot clones, only much more vibrant. I haven't seen something similar in a really long time
Missing content? Either you wait (keep exploring) or become proactive. Even if you intend to hand it over down the line, create/start building any community you are missing. For those that are joining after you, it's reassuring having a moment of "Hey, here there's also interest in $RANDOM_THING"
Be aware of size: Recently I was taking about this. Some "not so large subreddits " have 10x users subscribed as users in the whole "lemmyverse"? "lemmy ecosystem"? (I'm still not sure how it's named)
The system is quite new and has had a sudden explosion in popularity. Be prepared to see some rough edges here and there.
A couple of things that might be odd to get your head around:
Instances: Although you can think of instances as a "whole reddit" they all work together. Both of us are on different instances and I'm commenting on your post. I'm not even sure without scrolling on which server resides the post
Fediverse: The collaboration is not constrained to instances alone. I was engaging (from Lemmy) with a post originating on a different platform (kbin) and checking how it looks on a third platform (Mastodon). The analogy might be bad, but think of commenting from Reddit on a post originated on digg and checking how you see/comment on it from Twitter.
Testing out kbin's microblog feature with this, hopefully the image is here. Just a screenshot of my seablock save. Since this point, added a basic metallurgy setup with temp green science. Now working on getting some bean fuel going before making a more serious slurry/science setup
I think you must have subscribed? followed? (I'm not sure of the correct word) from mastodon before the post was made. The post appears as a toot with the comments as replies.
Krastorio2 (technically, not finished. Only Intergalactic Transceiver missing)
Currently B&A, but I think it will take a long time to finish
Krastorio2 I recommend, even if I found the late game a bit tedious. B&A I see myself taking long rides in a train around the base while I decide where / how / what I will build next.
In both cases I jumped in as blind as possible discovering everything on the go
About going blind you're right it's quite not possible to go fully blind with many mods. What I meant was I try not to look beforehand what I will need or in some cases, what to build close to or reserve space for sometime later as the byproduct will be useful for xxx
just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10....
With some "back of the envelope" calculations (using Reddit provided revenue and user number) Reddit's revenue (not earnings) / user month is $0.12 , around $1.4 user/year
In the case of Apollo, the "intended" revenue per Apollo user would be $2.5 per user month, around $30 user /year
The $20 Million is what would cost to continue using the API with the intended price point.
Also, $500.000 year would be revenue, not earnings. As I understood, he's not a "solo" developer working in his basement. There's people and infraestructure to pay from that number (I don't know neither how many people nor how much costs "keeping the lights on", but anyway, I don't think those numbers are relevant)
My own opinion: Let's say Reddit's break even point is around the Apollo's intended cost / user. That would mean that with a revenue of $0.12 per month * user, Reddit would be losing around $800 million / month. That's close to $10.000 million / year. Even as a ballpark figure, I find it suspicious to say the least.
BTW: I've never used Apollo. RIF user from long long before they had to change the App name
I am currently looking into High Availability for my work setup. I am having some problems understanding how to achive that. I have two servers, one running libvirt and a couple VM, the other one nothing much yet....
It's been a few years since I used keepalived so my knowledge might be outdated.
You are correct that the VMs should be in different servers. To test around you can set up on the same, but this shouldn't be done in production environments, if you lose the host, you lose the service.
Keepalived will make sure your service is available in an IP. To say, you have two (it can be configured for more than two) servers with (A) 192.168.0.2 and (B) 192.168.0.3 which provide the service you want to provide. With Keepalived you'll configure a common IP for both of them, let's say 192.168.0.4
While working, server A will be available at 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.4 while server B will be available at 192.168.0.3. If server A fails keepalived will "move" 192.168.0.4 to server B, so 192.168.0.2 will not be available and server B will be available at 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.4.
No matter which server is up / primary, your service will always be available at 192.168.0.4
For the mirroring part, you need to solve it in another step outside from keepalived. For example, MariaDB provides multimaster replication "out of the box" with galera (the recommendation is at least 3 nodes)
For files, depending on your filesystem you should have to rsync, use some shared units, distribute filesystem (Ceph), ...
I've been using Namecheap for personal domains for around 10 years now. Since a few years back, privacy guard is included in the domain price (at least for .com domains) so your name, address, ... won't appear directly on whois queries.
As it's just one domain, (longterm) pricewise I don't think there'll be a big difference with any of them. 1 or 2 € per year, maybe. It'll be more important to check longterm price of the domain (.com / .io / ...), as you'll probably find some offer for the first year.
FWIW, namecheap publishes a recurrent offer around 10th October (apart from some random offers every once in a while) If you go with them, you can register for one year and renew the domain for a longer period when you find an offer.
What games would you guys recommend for a guy near 50, who doesn't have a gaming pc (my laptop is an i7, 16gb RAM and using onboard graphics) which tend to have an older community? I used to play RPG's and my least favorite games are those first person war games....
As an RPG game I think Neverwinter Nights is worth taking a look (you might have even played it when it was brand new) There is an enhanced edition that was first published a few years back that among other things, brought back online gaming without having to mess around. I think the community fits the bill nicely and in some groups you might not even be among the oldest.
Although you can play it solo, it's at multiplayer where it shines. Also, apart from official content, there's a ton of community content, some of it far better than official one.
Factorio has been also mentioned. Think of puzzle / problem solving / logistics / base building kind of game. There's a playable demo (probably >10 hours worth of content but I can't say for sure, I didn't need so long to decide it was my thing) so you can check it out before purchasing.
Additional info :
First game, try to go in as blind as possible (no tutorial/videos, walkthroughs, ...) You can only beat the game for the first time /without prior knowledge once
You can find the game referred as cracktorio. For many, the main cost of the game is not the purchase, but the electricity needed to run it for so long
You can play it without bitters (enemies) so there's no rush in completing it. You just build as you see fit
I would also add Minecraft, Terraria, Stardew Valley for the chill factor.
You shouldn't have problems with any of these games on your laptop.
Playerwise, the main servers (main as in where most players connect, not necessarily the best) are Arelith and Ravenloft, but you can check status and playercount here: https://nwn.beamdog.net/
Both of them are role-playing servers, you act/speak as your character at all times (it's far less daunting than what it might seem)
Arelith is based on Forgotten Realms, in/around an island far in the west. https://nwnarelith.com/
Both of them have a lot of custom mechanics, classes, ... not found on the base game. Also, both of them are big. They are probably over 1000 different areas (as a reference, the full base campaign, The Wailing Death has less than 100 areas (from the top of my head))
In case you want to try Arelith, it's split between a few (interconnected) servers. You probably want to check the Distant Shores one. It's designed for new players / low level characters.
There are also some action oriented, no RP required, just kill & loot if that's more of your thing. There's one I personally liked but it's been offline for a while, hometown diablo. I also tried one based on middle earth for a while.
Just check a few (smaller servers might seem "less lively" but DM run events might be more custom tailored) and see which one you like most.
To connect, just click on multiplayer and connect to a server. It might take a while as the game will download all the custom content used in the server.
Icon for this community
As the title says,this community needs an icon to be easily distinguished
City blocks, bus, or other?
Was curious how people design their factories. I typically do a main bus but decided to try city blocks this time and use a lot of trains.
Dropping fish back into the water in Factorio (diode.zone)
Version 1.1.83 (forums.factorio.com)
Features...
Tips for a simple vanilla train system?
After making my starter base, I was working on a train system using train limits, circuits, and bidirectional 3-8-3 trains. I realized the scale was too large for me, and I wanted something smaller and simpler. I had also messed up the fueling system, and wanted to redesign it....
Tips for a new user!
Reddit refugee here - stumbled across Lemmy as it was mentioned in a comment on Artifact but intrigued by this format and communities!...
Which mods have you been playing?
Let's get some mod discussion going. Finally launched my first rocket early this year and have discovered the wonderful world of mods....
a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps
just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10....
Keepalived
I am currently looking into High Availability for my work setup. I am having some problems understanding how to achive that. I have two servers, one running libvirt and a couple VM, the other one nothing much yet....
What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?
Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.
Missing links in the sidebar?
Are you missing any link in the sidebar?
Welcome
I'm not really sure how to start the community so here we go....
Where do you recommend to buy a domain name?
I was looking into hover, namecheap, and google domains....
Paizo released third draft of the ORC (paizo.com)
Could you recommend me a game?
What games would you guys recommend for a guy near 50, who doesn't have a gaming pc (my laptop is an i7, 16gb RAM and using onboard graphics) which tend to have an older community? I used to play RPG's and my least favorite games are those first person war games....