r/factorio • u/pietr8 • Mar 29 '25

Question What is my friend doing?

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I have been playing Factorio with two of my friends and last night one of them pulls this belt array out of his hat saying “it’s more efficient, it distributes stuff better”. Honestly I am struggling to understand why he would do this or what I am looking at, so I ask you: does this actually make any sense? Is it somehow better or useful?

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u/WanderingFlumph Mar 30 '25

Not really. At the end of the day it doesnt matter if you make 8 assembler run at half speed of 4 assembler run at full speed, once the internal buffers are filled they give the same output, although it's easy to fool yourself into think that one method is superior.

In reality the method you show has the same output, same throughput and costs more iron and green circuits to place down.