I moved this topic into Frequently Suggested, cause it has again and again some relevance to other subjects and is a basic technology for many, many other ideas. Especially it looks like, that implementing this would enable to have "pseudo intelligent behavior" for the natives. All in all...

Really annoying and slow Hit & Run strategy. Got nothing else to do so I made a video... which is boring as hell because I wasn't quite comfortable shotgunning such a large group of biters so most of the video is just me running around in circles for a few minutes :D It was fairly easy because ...

Really annoying and slow Hit & Run strategy. Equipment needed: (Combat) shotgun with piercing ammo. Power armor mk2 3 exoskeletons so you can outrun the enemies Some shields two fusion generators max 1 personal laser so you don't run out of energy and die while kiting What do: Build a small mini...

Why does the bot even try to perform an action that is guaranteed to lead to its destruction? Either force the bots to always stay within safe distance from roboports or just don't let them take tasks where estimated energy requirement is too high.

Not everything can be mirrored at the moment... (chemical plants, for example)

I have researched turret damage as far as I could and have 2 layer of walls already. I will move my turrets back one square though. I tried placing 1 laser turret but I saw it totally killed my electric network with its consumption. How am I supposed to have an entire defense of laser turrets with ...

Worms? Two choices really: distractor bots or laser tower creep.

With distractors, you sometimes need seriously insane amount of them because they keep dying dying dying so fast...

EDIT: I just tested and hit&run with a bunch of poison capsules seems to do wonders against worms too...

The problem is that the textures are taking way too much VRAM already, higher resolution textures would make it impossible to keep everything loaded at the same time. So, the game would need to start loading textures on demand and that'd require quite a lot of engine changes. If not done properly, y...

A workaround: use the shotgun to clear trees on your way. It's a little slow but should help a bit.

You ... destroy the trees? But they reduce pollution! I'm trying very hard to keep forests up and only harvest the minimum amount needed

If you could make forests, pollution control would be way too easy... maybe if the pollution mechanics were changed too, but that's starting to sound like a major revamp of the game mechanics already. Greenhouses of some kind might work, but I don't really like the idea of renewable building materia...

I don't even look at the clock when I play, going slow is fine. A lot of people like to use 3-4 electric miners and 6 smelters per resources, but that generates quite a bunch of pollution which attracts enemies and means you have to spend more resources on defense. Unless there's plenty of convenien...

Satellite base for a power plant? This got me thinking... I want thermoelectric generators in the game. Pipe water through them and then back into the sea, they'll use the temperature difference between water and air (or the difference of two water inputs?) to generate electicity. We'd need various ...

let's first see how they implement the multiplayer and the lobby system (if they make such a thing), then we'll see if friends lists or such are a necessary feature or not

trains aren't really necessary though, neither is using those bases at end of the tracks. if you take down some enemy spawners you can get your resources from the other extra fields...

walk around a little, you'll find some more resource fields not too far away.

Hmm. You have seem to have two display adapters, AMD Radeon HD 6800 which goes for 1080p display (TV?) and then there's AMD Radeon HD 6550D (integrated and not in use? Or is this a laptop? what? I have no idea) I'm betting Factorio is checking screen resolution of the wrong adapter and thus fails to...

Somehow it's getting your screen resolution wrong. Try editing config.ini to run the game in windowed mode, maybe that works?

I think bots flying in the air should attract enemies over long distances. Under the current mechanics that means flying bots should generate pollution, enough pollution that excessive use of bots would call in enemies over ridiculous distances... Maybe bots should indeed spend more energy for the n...

I'm just concerned about the amount of bandwidth required to play on an ever growing map, cause my connection is pretty crappy and probably wouldn't be able to handle late game servers at all, if the whole map is loaded and streamed continuously. The idea was to have perfectly deterministic game en...