limit items in slot

[Yunkady #mythical]

Please add a limit of cost items in slot in the mechanism, otherwise it happens that the front mechanisms overflow, and the rest do not work, because the first ones take everything into themselves all the time. For example, with a smelter, a constructor, etc.

[Kage Goomba]

Could you give us an example with a bit more detail? Cause that's not making a whole lot of sense.

If your talking about a manifold - that's normal - saturation of all belts/bins in machines is what is needed to achieve max throughput assuming your math is on point.

If you don't like that - load balancer layout will achieve what you desire...but at the cost of space.

Many many vids/pages on the net about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUbNdBT3zPo

Again - its just a guess as to what your complaining about.

[Fenix]

I doubt they are going to change this.
Just wait for the manifold to fill the machines in time, or prime the machines to avoid the wait.

[Dirtyshadow]

The slot is "one srack"

If your manifold is causing you grief, trying splitting it into smaller manifolds

Like a 1200 line runs better and fills more evenly if you break it into 3x 400 lines.

Also when you Starr building the factories power everything on at the start lwt it backlog so it fills the next batch of machines before you get to the final assembly.

[chronobomb]

Originally posted by Yunkady #mythical:

Please add a limit of cost items in slot in the mechanism, otherwise it happens that the front mechanisms overflow, and the rest do not work, because the first ones take everything into themselves all the time. For example, with a smelter, a constructor, etc.

I sounds like you are early in the game but it becomes easier to do later in the game with a bunch of different belts to use.

You can also learn how to make a load balancer which will always work from the start. They take more planning and space but are usually essential when it comes to power generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V_R6HjTgbM

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by chronobomb:

Originally posted by Yunkady #mythical:

Please add a limit of cost items in slot in the mechanism, otherwise it happens that the front mechanisms overflow, and the rest do not work, because the first ones take everything into themselves all the time. For example, with a smelter, a constructor, etc.

I sounds like you are early in the game but it becomes easier to do later in the game with a bunch of different belts to use.

You can also learn how to make a load balancer which will always work from the start. They take more planning and space but are usually essential when it comes to power generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V_R6HjTgbM

Manifolds work just as well for power generation.

*leans on 96 Coal Gen facility - all manifolded - one of which is 32 Gen's wide*

[Mister Fabulous]

Other factory games limit intake up to 3 production cycles. It would be nice if Satisfactory did that too so manifolds would come up to speed much faster, but it is what it is.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Mister Fabulous:

Other factory games limit intake up to 3 production cycles. It would be nice if Satisfactory did that too so manifolds would come up to speed much faster, but it is what it is.

Just preload the bins and manifolds start fully loaded. Not really a big deal honestly.

[chronobomb]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Originally posted by chronobomb:

I sounds like you are early in the game but it becomes easier to do later in the game with a bunch of different belts to use.

You can also learn how to make a load balancer which will always work from the start. They take more planning and space but are usually essential when it comes to power generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V_R6HjTgbM

Manifolds work just as well for power generation.

*leans on 96 Coal Gen facility - all manifolded - one of which is 32 Gen's wide*

Manifolds are fine for coal. The struggle comes with Nuclear so knowing how to do it will be useful.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by chronobomb:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Manifolds work just as well for power generation.

*leans on 96 Coal Gen facility - all manifolded - one of which is 32 Gen's wide*

Manifolds are fine for coal. The struggle comes with Nuclear so knowing how to do it will be useful.

Than say that. :)

[Seb]

You can put a mk1 mk2 belt out of the splitter while main line is mk5 (for exmple), that'll get your stuff to the last constructor/smelter w/e faster.
I'm guessing most of us don't care and let it fill over time. You can fill the stack in first machines manually too if you have the stuff in inventory.