Re:Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
by lexicality on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:00AM
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It's funny, I've been sucked into factorio after the 1.0 release announcement and this really rings true.
If you make a production line that has perfect throughput with no buffers then you get fantastic efficiency and productivity right up until a single train hits a biter and is delayed by 30s.
Then you spend 3 hours trying to deal with every machine being out of sync with every other machine with constant start/stops :(
If you make a production line that has perfect throughput with no buffers then you get fantastic efficiency and productivity right up until a single train hits a biter and is delayed by 30s.
Then you spend 3 hours trying to deal with every machine being out of sync with every other machine with constant start/stops :(