I build them, they provide endless energy for the rest of the game. I build enough, (and I have) and I don't have to use steam engines ever again.

That's the problem. They are a way too easy solution. I believe the game would be much more interesting if energy actually had a cost, no matter what ...

I personally don't care about the return on investment for solars outside of speed runs. I build them, they provide endless energy for the rest of the game. I build enough, (and I have) and I don't have to use steam engines ever again. My current game is at 40 hours (I can and did build the missile ...

So the logistic chests' UI runs out of room if you have too many items. It can only handle 12 rows (72 items) with a 13th row cut in half on my 1080p resolution. Since I'm using the logistics storage to store a large number of unique items, it's rather annoying.

Picture. Problem is on the bottom ...

i know rewriting codes is hard and you have to replace thousands of lines. but i really think its worth the try.

:lol: More like tens of thousands of lines of code. The game is already over like 120,000 lines of code.

But yes, your netbook probably dosen't have a powerful CPU, and factorio is ...

Well, you could load up empty barrels on the train, take it to the oil rigs, unload the empty barrels (smart inserters?) while you fill it up with full barrels... And then do the reverse to unload the full barrels.

Would be nice to have some more tech mid/late game to deal with biters (artillery? ). And mines that do something against large biters. Maybe even some sort of super high tech minigun that chews up ammo really fast, so it's expensive to use, but can decimate bases.

Old screenshots of my old base (so specific ingrediants are otu of date). Maybe you'll get some ideas. ;] http://imgur.com/a/cM6eB

Deathmage wrote:Create a train that goes round a biter base killing them, endlessly. Still trying to get this to work, need a biter freeze ray

Surround the base with lasers while you set the train up

@OP: The night is much longer then 73 seconds.

The data I collected (by having a single solar power a radar) is that night 43~ seconds, dawn and dusk are both 85~ seconds, and day is 207~ seconds, for 420 seconds total (or exactly 7 minutes). This means you need 128 seconds power stored in ...

Yeh, you need a straight orthogonal track, horizontal or vertical to set up a station. So either run your oil to the track at the top, or setup a orthogonal track near the oil.

However, the rapid/instant respawn rate of nest defenders, plagues of worms, and the general feeling that you, the player, should have a hand in their destruction, make most bases unapproachable. Most bases can only be conquered by 'Offensive Towering' and having swarms of bots, especially if ...

@OP: very cool base. I'll never build something like that myself, as I care far more about throughput and expandability then compactness. Very cool though.

Ah. Yes I expected something like that. Still could implement a 1/5th speed instead of death.

Well I've put in my own fix for now. They have the same operational energy (300kj, recharge at 60kj). except they have 1000 energy now (recharge at 760kj). Should hopefully stop them dying so much without ...

I think a good solution to the problem of suicidal robots is just to make them run at 1/5th speed instead of dying. Pretend they have a solar panel on top or something, but without battery charge run much slower. ;p

I've just discovered what I consider a fairly huge problem. If a robot travels a long distance and it's not near a robo-port, it just disappears when it runs out of energy. This means if you have say, a large L-shape of chained roboports, and they try traveling one tip to the other, they can ...

Maybe, but the bonus goes only to 10 robots and this bonus is reached with research level 11, and the following 9 research levels are "useless"

Or the tooltip shows this wrong. :P
You're misunderstanding the tooltip. It adds 10 per research, they all stack. So by the end I think you get about 150 ...

I think someone on IRC figured this out. It's 100 or 500 divided by 60, having something to do with the target framerate of the game. So, 1.67 seconds for copper and iron, 8.33 seconds for steel.
Low fps hurts the production times? Even if someone could stand 15 fps, 4 times longer to produce ...

You could start a 'deathworld' game. Normal/very big/very rich biters. Everything else normal. Goodluck. ;p

In my experience so far it seems that the number of boilers is about 1.3x more than number of steam engines to be able to keep water at 100° even when at 100% load.

And of course only two pumps for one pipe and max about 16 engines for one pipe.
Yeh this is about right. I checked every number ...

End-game, I don't even bother dragging laser turrets offensively. Combat shotgun with piercing shells and Power armor MK2 with the right equipment is much easier. Run in to nest, kill spawners with shotgun, run from horde while recharging shield.

You forgot destroyers <3. Even just 20 of them ...