Many thanks.

Does "pollution produced by all the player's machinery at every tick" mean the total sum of pollution units created by each polluter on the surface (then having negative pollutants anywhere would always reduce the total amount), or is the total pollution the sum of the pollution units per chunk (th...

Yes, you're right of course -- "doubling" the pollution isn't what it does, it just leaves you with twice the pollution (compared to the un-moduled variety). No, that's not technically correct, but this is nitpicking. Regardless of how you word it, we agree that half of a negative number is another...

Say I insert an efficiency-3 module into this. It will apply a factor of 0.5 to the base pollution. But 50 % of -45 is -22.5, so adding that module will double the pollution instead of reducing it. Can I work around this somehow? Strictly speaking this is not "doubling the pollution". If a machine'...

A few quibbles with the way tooltips work for recipes that have results which set fluid temperatures. 1. Recipes with multiple results are handled differently to a single result. For single-product results with a temperature, the temperature is appended to the recipe name in the header, regardless o...

You have a sharp eye. If you ask me they look like silo clamps. Edit: better picture I think that's right. They're at the same angles as the two different clamp animations (08-rocket-silo-arms-back and 08-rocket-silo-arms-right). Maybe left over from hiding parts of the rocket silo to get the rocke...

You wrote that you have an app that postpones shutting down your PC because you did not notice the confirmation dialog. For this case there is specifically a a system API for that which is called "Sudden Termination". You can either support it or not. Factorio is not supporting it. Here is a link t...

@Loewchen: I am satisfied with all of the shortcuts. But there is no shortcut setting for quitting the game. I know nothing about Macs except that they're overpriced, but the equivalent in Windows is Alt-F4. This is an OS feature, not a Factorio hotkey. You don't get a warning for it in Windows eit...

Potential solutions, all with pros and cons: 1. Don't load base mod tips and tricks items or menu simulations if any other mod is present. Nuclear option. 2. Provide a "hidden" field or flag for tips-and-trick-item prototypes. Recipes and technologies have this property, and items have a similar opt...

For me the biggest cause of FPS stutter was a result of the "Atlas texture size" setting in Factorio > Settings > Graphics. Having it set unnecessarily large is a lot worse than having it too small. I changed it to 4096 and have had constant 60 FPS ever since, even at 4K resolution with heavy mods. ...

starlinvf wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:51 pm

Those are just words.

I'm aware of what words are and how language is co-constructed.

None of this cod-philosophy of language banter stops "retarded" from being a stupid and unnecessary thing to appear on screen in a family-friendly video game about trains and factories.

Factorio 1.1 introduced simulations. These are used for the main menu background and also for "tips and tricks". Simulations are essentially bottled game saves or blueprints with a bit of special handling for their runtime scripts. Because vanilla simulations are based only on the vanilla base mod, ...

While I agree that this is not an appropriate name, I wonder for how long this name has been in the game. Because if the name has been accepted and integrated in the list 2 years ago, it would maybe be complicated to remove it now. Considering that name ingame is a reward and Wube always delivers w...

invisus wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:41 am

I would submit that someone willing to _actually_ sling insults at someone who is merely trying to discuss it is more of an issue.

Sure thing, Mr "Some of my best friends have 'mental issues'".

Currently we're going back and forth about slow hair. You know perfectly well that's almost certainly not what was meant. The way people can rationalise this shit away is the reason it's a problem. Randomly calling train stations in a computer game "Retarded" anything is no better than randomly cal...

I have the impression that, on the contrary, the more privileged, the more people get easily offended. People who struggle to survive have other priorities than being offended I think. I think that's total bollocks personally. I think people who tell other people it's their fault if they're offende...

Koub wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:17 pm

If people spent less time getting offended by everything and anything, I'm sure they'd be a lot happier.

Spoken like someone in a truly privileged position.

Another example: It's currently only possible to get "real" black if you edit the blueprint directly. I think it should be possible to adjust that in the GUI too. asd.png But it looks absolutely awful. This is why setting the alpha was removed from player colour commands. The sprite layers simply a...

Thanks, that helps a lot.

I could maybe answer these questions myself but it would take a fair bit of work and quite a long time to set up tests, so maybe someone already knows from their own modding experience (or can peek at the source and find out). LuaTrain has several useful ways of getting arrays of the entities that f...