u/Diamond_Sutra

In various European mythos, crows are harbringers of fate, avatars of hidden wisdoms and the ears and eyes of the gods. In Japan, crows are rats with wings.

Today the super chill neighbor rang my doorbell early in the AM, and told me that the crows got into the garbage.

Our garbage was in a can with a sliding/locking mechanism to prevent this very kind of thing. But somehow the crows were able to twist the thick, heavy lid off a garbage can (15+ degrees turn!) while standing on it. Luckily they didn't like anything in the can so it wasn't a mess (the lid was in the street, hence the neighbor giving me a heads up), but just baffling that my anti-crow garbage can was crow'd.

I was told that neighbors have taken to setting a brick on top of their locking garbage cans. I'll do that, but imagine that it's just a matter of time before 5 crows figure out if they work together they can push it off. Or maybe we'll see some yard-monster swole crows in the near future that can knock that shit right off the can with their beaks.

I secretly love my flying rat bros, and smile when I hear them cawing at sunset. But one day they will rule us. I hope they remember that I was kind to them.

So after 1500+ hours of Factorio/Space Age, I figure it's finally time to start a new game and learn about circuit networks (and train signals, but that's another headache for later). I imagined doing things like being able to automatically fix things (like when I hit a bottleneck from a full tank of light/heavy oil stopping all oil production).

New game from scratch, just started extracting oil.

Currently I'm still in baby steps, doing simple things just to learn (while watching tutorial videos), like "let's disable the inserter connected to this chest when there's 20 items in it".

Q1) I know there's so many possibilities, but wanted to know what sorts of basic things that you find really helpful to do with a Circuit Network? For those folks who feel circuit networks are a Must Have for Factorio play, what are the first things you end up doing with them?

Q2) Have you used circuits on space platforms/spaceships? What do you use them for?

Q3) How about on Gleba?

Again, I'm in baby steps, and looking ahead to exploring how circuit networks can help me down the line!