Buffer size in production buildings

[LtGen.Flower]

Why can't we adjust the buffer size in production buildings?

For example, I don't need a buffer of 100 if I have perfectly balanced consumption and production.

[Lhetre]

What's the advantage in having a smaller buffer?

[Fenix]

Just part of the puzzle, but yeah letting us limit inputs would be amazing for manifolds

[Fenix]

Originally posted by Lhetre:

What's the advantage in having a smaller buffer?

Less time a manifold needs to saturate.

[Lhetre]

And if it saturates it works more quickly? I'm not really into minmaxing, but I do like to know the mechanics of the game.

[Aven]

Originally posted by LtGen.Flower:

Why can't we adjust the buffer size in production buildings?

For example, I don't need a buffer of 100 if I have perfectly balanced consumption and production.

If you have a perfectly balanced consumption and production, there shouldn't be a stockpile, effectively countering your argument that you need control over the buffer.

However, yes, it would be nice to be able to manage the buffer when you are manifolding.

[Wolfgang]

Prime your machines.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by Lhetre:

And if it saturates it works more quickly? I'm not really into minmaxing, but I do like to know the mechanics of the game.

So say you are sending 240/m down a belt, each machine needs 30/m, therefore you have 8 machines being fed off that single belt. The splitter is going to send half that it gets to the 1st machine, 120/m even though is just needs 30/m, this is going to starve the machines at the end at 1st. But as the machine fills to capacity, the extra resources go to the next machine.
In time a manifold will hit 100% efficiency, but the 1st few machines have to fill up in order for that to happen. A lower stack size would help with that.
With Manifolds you have 2 choices, let it saturate on its own or “prime” it by loading the resources manually or turning off machines until one is filled up and moving to the next machine

[Dragonmaster]

Personally I’d rather have smaller buffers in machines as well. Games like dsp and factorio have small buffers with the ability to add a stack if wanting manually. I think the core issue though is both of them run with inserters while satisfactory runs on direct feex

[Lhetre]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Originally posted by Lhetre:

And if it saturates it works more quickly? I'm not really into minmaxing, but I do like to know the mechanics of the game.

So say you are sending 240/m down a belt, each machine needs 30/m, therefore you have 8 machines being fed off that single belt. The splitter is going to send half that it gets to the 1st machine, 120/m even though is just needs 30/m, this is going to starve the machines at the end at 1st. But as the machine fills to capacity, the extra resources go to the next machine.
In time a manifold will hit 100% efficiency, but the 1st few machines have to fill up in order for that to happen. A lower stack size would help with that.
With Manifolds you have 2 choices, let it saturate on its own or “prime” it by loading the resources manually or turning off machines until one is filled up and moving to the next machine

That is perfectly clear, thank you. Makes sense. I noticed this behaviour, and just waited for the first buffers to fill or manually primed the others.

+1 for adjusting buffer sizes.

[Grizzt]

That would be a pretty nifty feature actually. Make it a slider from 1x or 2x the per/unit 'cost' to manufacture - up to the normal stack size for that unit.