User:Kenjiraw/Sandbox/Beacon/fr

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Kenjiraw/Sandbox/Beacon

Modifier

Recette
15 + 20 + 10 + 20 + 10 → File:Kenjiraw/Sandbox/Beacon.png 1
Ressource totale
232.5 + 135 + 60 + 40 + 10
Couleur sur la carte
Point de vie	200 260 320 380 500
Taille de la pile	20
Efficiency	1.5 1.7 1.9 2.1 2.5
Dimensions	3×3
Consommation d'énergie	480 kW 400 kW 320 kW 240 kW 80 kW (électrique)
Temps de minage	0.2
Supply area	9x9 tiles
Emplacements pour module	2 emplacements
Type de prototype	beacon
Nom interne	beacon
Technologies nécessaires
Produit par
Overall effect stacks with multiple beacons covering the same machine.

File:Factorio-beacon.png

Balises et 12 Electric furnace/frs affectés.

Une balise est un dispositif qui transmet des effets de module/fr aux machines proches, dans un carré de 9 x 9. Les effets sont transmis à la moitié de leur efficacité. Toutefois, une balise permet de transmettre l'effet à plusieurs machines et l'effet de toutes les balises à portée d'une seule machine se cumulent. Additionnellement, les balises peuvent fournir un boost au-delà des limites normales d'un emplacement interne de module, comme en boostant la sortie d'une Pumpjack/fr à 0.25 d'huile par cycle où, seule, elle pourrait seulement atteindre 0.2 de rendement.

Utilisation

Les balises sont meilleures dans ces scénarios :

• Il y a plusieurs machines compatibles dans une zone dense.

Ceci permet à l'effet de la balise d'atteindre plusieurs machines, permettant au joueur de se préserver de la fabrication supplémentaire de module.

• Il y a une machine qui doit avoir une vitesse extrême d'opération.

Les foreuses sont les meilleurs exemples de cela. Quand un filon de minerai est petit mais riche, plus de vitesse par foreuse est nécessaire pour répondre à la demande, depuis qu'ajouter plusieurs foreuse n'est possible. Donc, plusieurs balises de module de vitesse autour d'une foreuse (avec des modules dans la foreuse elle-même) peuvent être utilisés pour améliorer plusieurs fois la vitesse d'une foreuse individuellement, afin de palier la basse quantité de foreuses.

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Les balises ne doivent pas être utilisées dans ces scénarios :

• La(les) machine(s) étant opèrent irrégulièrement.

Ceci a pour effet de dépenser de l'énergie inutilement car les balises consument toujours de l'énergie même si les machines ne travaillent pas. Ceci peut toutefois être contourné avec un peu de préparation et en utilisant un Power switch/fr.

• Essayer de boost une machine non compatible.

Seules les machines avec un emplacement de module seront affectés par une balise.

Limitations

• Only buildings with module slots can benefit from beacon effects (i.e. laser turret doesn't benefit). The only exceptions to this rule are Burner mining drills (which don't accept modules but are affected by beacons), and beacons themselves which don't benefit from the modules inserted in themselves (or other beacons), so their energy cost can't be reduced.

• Currently, only speed and efficiency modules can be used in beacons, and productivity modules cannot.

• A beacon's effect transmitted is only half of the effect of the modules within. So, two of the same module = one module's worth transmitted. This limitation can be overcome with more beacons with overlapping areas.

Maximum number per building

The maximum number of beacons that can be built in range of a building depend on that building's footprint:

• Buildings from 2 × 2 to 4 × 4 size: 12 beacons.

Note that this configuration may not be practically possible without using robots to supply the building, as there may not be enough room for belts and inserters.

• 5 × 5 buildings: 16 beacons.

The only building of this size that can benefit from beacons is the Oil refinery. These cannot be supplied by robot, but all their inputs and outputs are piped fluids (except with Coal liquefaction), meaning inserters are not needed and also offering the more versatile 9-tile (without transitions) maximum length of the underground pipe.

The maximum number of beacons that can be built in range of a row of buildings:

• Row of 3 × 3 buidings: 8 beacons.

Every building in the row can be in range of 8 beacons (end-of-row buildings possibly more) if a double row of beacons (no spaces between) is built in parallel (may be up to 2 tiles distant). However, the center row of buildings to be boosted must be offset relative to the beacon row; i.e., the center tile of no building on the center row may lie on a line connecting the center tiles of any pair of facing beacons on the two beacon rows.

• Row of 5 × 5 buidings: 10 beacons.

The same rules apply as before, with the exception that now the center row must not be offset; i.e., centers of boosted buildings must align with the centers of some beacon pair. This requires leaving a gap of 1 tile between buildings on the center row (assuming the beacon rows are gapless). As the only beacon-eligible 5 × 5 buildings are Oil refineries, the free tile is actually useful to make the row player-traversable (a gapless row of refineries is not).

Beacon arrays

Beacons can boost the overall capabilities of a factory quite significantly. However, they consume a considerable amount of power (480 kW apiece), take up nontrivial space, complicate logistics, and also are relatively expensive to craft. Therefore, when building an entire production line with a high beacon boost, it is significantly more economical to build a row of production buildings surrounded by row(s) of beacons, rather than single buildings surrounded by the maximum number of beacons theoretically possible. This also simplifies logistics and makes the design more tiling-friendly.

The maximum possible benefits are reduced somewhat in row-array configuration (for 3 × 3 buildings, 8 beacons per building are possible instead of 12; for 5 × 5 buildings, 10 instead of 16), but the number of beacons required to achieve this boost level is considerably lower. For example, for a single row of 3 × 3 buildings surrounded by a double row of beacons so that each production building is in range of 8 beacons, the total number of beacons required is 2n + 6, where n is the number of production buildings.

The average number of beacons per building is then 2 + (6 ÷ n), which tends toward 2 (i.e., a 75% reduction in the number of beacons needed compared to isolated buildings with 8 distinct beacons each) when n goes to infinity. For e.g. n = 10 the formula evaluates to 2.6, which is still a reduction of 67.5% in beacons needed.

Multi-row arrays

For large numbers of buildings to be boosted, efficiency can be further improved by separating production buildings into multiple rows. In this case, the beacons in all but the edge rows of the array can be shared by the two rows of production buildings on either side. (Note that it does not matter if these are producing different recipes and / or are different buildings altogether.) The total number of beacons required, assuming 3 × 3 sized production buildings and rows of equal length, is B(r,c) = (r + 1)(c + 3) = rc + 3r + c + 3, where r is the number of rows of production buildings and c is the number of production buildings in a single row.

The number of beacons per boosted building is then (3 ÷ rc) + (1 ÷ r) + (3 ÷ c) + 1, which tends to 1 as both r and c go to infinity. For finite arrays, the optimum number of rows is given by r = -0.5 + sqrt[(n ÷ 3) + 0.25], where n is the total number of buildings to be boosted.

The formula above does not generally return integer results. If the r thus found is non-integer, iterate around it, i.e., calculate the number of beacons needed with floor(r) (the next lower integer) and ceiling(r) (the next higher integer) rows and compare the results. For each such integer r, calculate c as floor(n ÷ r), then calculate the number of beacons as B(r,c) + mod(n,r) + 1, where B(r,c) is given above and mod(n,r) is n modulo r, i.e., the remainder of (n ÷ r), equal to n - (r × c).

There will in either case be mod(n,r) buildings "left over"; these should be appended one per row to the ends of a contiguous block of neighboring rows for the total beacon count calculation above to be valid. Other configurations for the leftovers (e.g. all appended to the end of a single row, one each at the end of every second row, etc.) require a higher number of beacons to cover.

History

• 0.13.0:
  • Renamed from Basic beacon to Beacon.

• 0.12.17:
  • Update icon

• 0.12.0:
  • Inserters can now extract from Beacons.

• 0.10.1:
  • New beacon graphics.

• 0.9.0:
  • Area of effect can now be seen on hover.

• 0.7.5:
  • Deactivated beacons will not give bonuses.

• 0.7.3:
  • Restricted use of productivity modules in beacons.

• 0.6.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Crafting
• Electric system
• Modules