Great news, thanks guys! I'll be playing this tonight and tomorrow allllll day baby ye!

Tanks sound like great fun. I was just thinking today that it might be fun to have a bulldozer to clear trees but then I remembered I had a shotgun :P My fav combo in MK2 is 2 reactors, 2 big batteries, 3 legs and the rest shields and I don't really want for anything else. I would use the nightvisio...

I find that gun turrets in the late game with fully upgraded techs are useful for a number of reasons. They help reduce my overall energy requirements and I combine them with laser turrets should there be "technical difficulties" with the power supply :D. I also use them in spots along the...

I liked what Milaha said near the beginning of this thread about robots that would need to be "programmed" for their basic behaviour. It could be a mini-game in itself. But I also like the whole route of capturing and breeding your own creepers to do your fighting. Decoys, confusion and ap...

I can confirm that the same delay occurs on Ubuntu 13.10 64bit

I can confirm seeing this in two games - dozens of biters standing still by their spawners. At first I thought it was because they were trapped in by the worms, spawners and eachother so I was expecting them to 'explode' out when I cleared the worms. But they don't - they just trickle out in small g...

The username and password are potentially exposed when the game makes a request for updates: https://www.factorio.com/updater/get-token?username=XXX&password=YYY This is not a problem since the URL of GET requests over HTTPS are encrypted but web servers have a nasty habit of logging the URL par...

This game just toppled the 24 year reign of the Civ franchise being my number one game(s) of all time (Civ 1, 2 and 5+BNW). The pluses: - No grinding - Great scaling of materials and techs - Tough aliens which makes late game payback soooo sweet! The minuses: - Would have liked to see upgrades to th...