Happy to see there is a price parity for the EU compared to the US price.

Cultivating bacteria for minerals seems completely unrealistic, unless you feed the bacteria minerals you won't be getting minerals out of thin air from them. And then if you feed them minerals then it makes no sense to cultivate bacteria to get them, you brake down the food instead that is full of ...

After thinking about it with the current system i would rather have an additive decrease in flow of 50% after every certain pipe length and to have an optical indication (in the alt icon visualization) in the pipe that the drop happens than the chunk instant cutoff. It would feel more natural, not ...

It is fascinating, how everyone here believes they know it all (but ofc don't) and ignore literally everything one says... :roll:

A little bit oversimplified: A storage tank won't fill to 100% if the pipes to and from it are not also 100% AND assuming there are no weird flow quirks like in ...

I don't know how to feel just reading all these big changes until i actually get a feel of them ingame. But i will say this i feel a bit sad when i think that way too many of the designs i made over the years catering to the old fluid system issues are meaningless now by upgrading to 2.0.

If it ...

Giant worms that are attracted by movement? This is as Dune as it gets! My first impression is that i like them and their mechanics so far but i will withheld my judgement until i will face them in battle. Hopefully devs are willing to make further changes even after the expansion release, for ...

Nice changes! I believe that anything that unnecessary complicates things that shouldn't be as complicated, like a missing feature that needs workarounds to deal with, is bad in practice so i like a lot these changes. Factorio is about automating stuff as much as you can progressively, so anything ...

With all these optimisations for the fluid system and the spidertrons now, feeling spoiled i want to point out one that is missing up until now and it hitted me harder than others, which is the fog.
I loved building large nuclear plants and every time if i didn't disable fog i faced serious ...

This update makes the stationary spidertron defences that i used obsolete and i love it! No more need to use spidertrons as rocket turrets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTlgFCgP8E


Oh, man. I can already tell vanilla rocket turrets are gonna suck ass...
So, from the footage in the FFF ...

A small aesthetic change for easier visibility i would like to see, for the graphs to have colored lines on a white background instead of colored lines on a black background. Colors have better visibility on a whiteboard than on a blackboard, hopefully we can have a similar experience ingame as well ...

I would like to have in the game an option of a more advanced interaction between a logistic network and the player or spidertron logistics it interacts with. To be able to set specific logistic networks to only provide items, only take items, or do both to the player or spidertrons that it is ...

Amazing stuff as always! I barely comment since i always find everything well thought out and have nothing of value to add.

This time i was thinking of something i would like to ask for the train stations which might make them more convenient. Why not make train stops handle the fuel refueling ...

Generally i like the idea and a lot of things i would like to address was already said by others.

The one thing i would like to ask is about blueprints and quality. How will blueprints work when you use quality buildings and structures? Would you need to build multiple blueprints for every building ...

https://youtu.be/aoasUzndRlA

In the video above i talk about priority lane balancers i made, and how useful they can be for your smelting and production needs by saving lanes of materials and better utilizing your productivity modules. They do the job a common balancer plus a lane balancer can do ...

The released art makes me hopeful that there will be some form of usage for water tiles, maybe water resources and enemies.

It is a bit slower when unloading due to the storage tanks, 108 ticks and that only if they are completely empty when unloading, it will be worse with half filled tanks for example. The same won't happen with fluid wagons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGcITROPeZs

https://i.imgur.com/wsJ594z.jpg

This is the fastest possible water loading and unloading station in Factorio using fluid wagons. The blueprint is for 1:4 fluid wagon trains and it takes 104 game ticks to load the fluid wagon train and 105 game ticks to ...

This is a compact 46x48 and cheap to make 2x2 Nuclear Reactor.
480W constant/ 489W peak.
Belt fed.
48x46 tiles compact.

Cheap to make (only 68 heat pipes used)!

https://youtu.be/C6X8Md8VcSI

Blueprint:
https://factorioprints.com/view/-MajGpNIyXnl1WLfxz7b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RtS-c_f3A

https://preview.redd.it/7hx5ltf4fcz61.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=c60e58e8d2472d22553577779bb67b17c0dc7868

It's power production scales between 1.120 MW - 4.960 MW or between 8 and 32 active reactors according to demand with 2 additional ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIhlGC73a2o

https://i.imgur.com/F0cVtdg.jpg

This is a plastic bar blueprint i made for late game which is also scalable between 11.300 per/min, 22.600 per/min and 45.200 plastic per/min or 4+, 8+ and 16+ blue belts of plastic. I tried to make it aesthetically ...