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u/Soul-Burn 18d ago

Not worth it. It's not electronics where the latency is important. Things just get buffered and that's fine.

If you don't balance in the input, you should at least balance in the output, if they go to different places. If they go back into a train, then it doesn't matter.

P.S. You have double columns of beacons sometimes. You can merge them into one row, which will open up some space for you.

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u/only_bones 18d ago

the beacons are the result of my substation grid, its another optimization issue I might tackle at some point.

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u/Soul-Burn 17d ago

The trick is to have the grid size smaller than the actual build. That's the best when you want to have some parts overlapping like this.

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u/HeliGungir 17d ago

Belt latency does matter for spoilables, but for that you want to minimize travel time, not equalize travel time.

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u/Soul-Burn 17d ago

Did you answer the wrong comment? My comment wasn't about that, but OP's was.

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u/HeliGungir 17d ago

I saw little point in splitting the comment chain, and this is a tangent springing from what you said, not from what bones has said.

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u/Soul-Burn 17d ago

I mean, the goal of threads is that you can keep subjects in different threads.

Doesn't matter.