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by munchbunny 1951 days ago
If you can make some assumptions like train length and loading/unloading station design, you can probably guess how many trains you need to supply a given design, which means you can probably automate the placement of resource collection outposts.

You'd need some empirical data on train acceleration and top speed, but once you have that plus some generous assumptions about latency tolerances, you can probably automatically lay out tracks and train routes and resource outposts.

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Laying out the perfect Factorio game would be akin to laying out a high performance super scalar out of order cpu. CPUs are math factories.
There was a poster a while ago that designed a series of mods that would automate the sprawl of his base. It would detect ore patches and set up mining and train loading.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=41377

Did we just automate automation
Welcome to Factorio, the game where the goal is to automate your automation of automation.