I really hope that TheYeast ideas will make it into the game in some way - they seem to be really well-thought and from my (admittedly very simple) attempts to simulate it in various scenarios, I can say that nothing about it feels "unintuitive" with regards to how the liquid moves around ...

Another general thought about "endgame content": There should be enough of stuff to do on the current gameplay level (making factories). One of the problem of automation is that it naturally scales extremely fast (simplistically speaking, 1 factory makes stuff to build another factory, the...

Either use robots, or we invent a completely new way to do this, but inserters have those "physical limitations". Please excuse me for derailing the discussion somewhat, but this is a very wrong statement. Inserters are presented in-game as a (relatively simple) automated mechanic arm man...

This (and many similar situations) could be resolved pretty well if we had variable-sized storages. At the moment, the biggest limiting factor with chest-based layouts is the fact that chests are 1x1, and a single chest can be worked by only 4 inserters, never more. Well, we have train wagons used a...

I'm pretty sure you're joking about tank being "mid game". You can get it out in the midgame, by crafting blue packs semi-manually, but that require you to specifically focus on it, and in general it's hardly any different from rushing laser towers without much automation (it IS possible, ...

We already have endless resources mod (which makes them non-depletable with quantities <1, so slow mining), and RSO (resource spawner overhaul), which makes exploring rather more interesting. You can use them together to create a rather different experience than your vanilla factorio game session).

I wasn't there in time to comment on FFF #64 and the ending, so I'll do it here: indeed, as noticed by many players, "win by monies" sounds quite weak and anti-climactic. However, the whole "build your spaceship" concept is cool indeed and should really be attempted. In my opinio...

There's one moment that's bugging me for quite a long time. The game fully loads its assets (mods, graphics, etc) before checking for updates and letting you download the new version. Which is quite awkward especially when something severe about mods changes (like when it was back with 0.10): if you...

Capitalization matters in internal references too. The mod is named "Floors" (uppercase F), but all internal references are "floors" (lowercase f). To make it work, first change the mod name in info.json from "Floors" to "floors", then rename the mod folder to...

My update keeps crashing with "boost::filesystem:remove:" error (x64). What's this?

UPD: The process stuck in OS for some reason and refused to be removed. After I rebooted the PC, update went nicely.

Just to clarify this. It is absolutly possible to create a mod that allow something like that. It just nobody did it yet ;) Current lua interfaces do not allow terrain modification in any form. So no, it's not possible to do that the way topicstarter described. It may be possible currently to make ...

I think sslik already made some suggestions in that area, but yeah -- generally, it would be cool to implement some "purely visual" indicators that can work with logistic networks. The most simple idea is -- make a "smart lamp" (probably also a colored one), that can be wired to ...

Likely you were running another application -- it either being heavy on CPU cycles, or memory usage, or HDD usage -- everything would lead to slowdowns in Factorio if your computer is not powerful/fast enough to offset that.

ssilk wrote:Use the underground pipes.

But it's not enough!
Underground pipes are barely enough to get all the required routing, and when you finish laying down all those 4- or 5- pipes T-sections and cross-sections, there's barely enough (or "just not enough") place to walk.

Now that's quite a useful idea! We may be getting ships and planes and other fancy stuff in some future update, but for now it would be a great (and very simple) idea to implement! I'd surely like to request it as a mod, but alas, this kind of terraforming is not possible through lua interfaces at t...

You can redefine all the controls.

Regarding quickbar, he is correct on all accounts. 1. You can't have a quickbar that won't be touched without your permission, UNLESS you "lock" all available slots by pressing MMB. You can't leave empty slots because then they'll be filled next time you pick something new up. And if you &...

As a person who helped sparking this topic to life, I feel compelled to write my thoughts here. There will be two parts in it -- one about "current biters vs. current towers", the other one more about Drury's suggestion in full. 1. A Blast of Steel For An Unhappy Biter. Regarding to our cu...

I'd imagine getting 150 alien artifacts per second would eventually become the biggest problem. Even several largest chests of AAs will get dry very fast (probably even before you can "debug" your layout). Although ~150K of iron plates per second seems scary, I'm pretty sure it can be para...

Very intressting usage of the cargo wagons :idea: Huh, you didn't know that? With the "inserter stack size bonus" tech, chests are becoming much more important for moving items in bulks, as opposed to belts. But the chest is only 1x1, and the amount of inserters you can place for it is al...