Mooncat wrote:About belts: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-160

Enhancement to the belt building mechanics, so building by dragging makes continuous belt.

Maybe there is hope?

I had hoped for something a little less... vague

"Calm before the storm" So that's what you eventually went with?

Alright then *takes deep breath before reading*.

Lot's of people / bots lurking but no ideas, eh? Perhaps it hasn't been brought up before after all...

This simply has to have been brought up before but I was wondering what the general response was. Is there any chance we will see something along these lines at any time? To be specific, what I'm talking about is a new control mechanic for the core game which makes rotating belts easier and allows u...

No defenses are infallible. That's what the alarms are for. When the biters start chewing a hole in your defenses it's time to pay attention. Personally I find it important to have defenses that don't cause alarms to go off if everything is working properly, that is there should be enough dakka to ...

What about flamethrower turrets? Those have been covered a few posts ago. I want to add another experience with them though. Since combining them with other turrets usually just means they will hit nothing but thin air I tested a perimeter with just flmaethrowers as defense. The interesting part is...

I have a request for the new map feature "Custom Tags". I'm sorry if this has already been brought up before me but I don't have the time to read all replies right now. Would it possible to make tags which are shared by all players? I.e. if I setup a tag "should make a mine here"...

Yeah, I guess strictly speaking there are exams that I should pass...

If any of you guys get kicked outta your home when 0.15 happens or you just want to meet people to play with I can rent out the the top 3 shelves of my utility closet. Enough room to stretch your legs and shared DSL.

Stunning. I'd be absolutely stunned if the final result is really meant to pop up with a 3d like effect over other entities such as belts just the way it does in this picture https://eu1.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-179-3-copper-others.png That is just gorgeous. As for feedback is there any chan...

Wouldn't it be cool if you could use barrels of sulfuric acid to make blue chips directly? Not sure how hard it would be to implement as you would probably need 2 recipes (1 pipe based and 1 barrel based with empty barrel output) Going down this road would render pipes utterly redundant. I'd be ok ...

Nich wrote:Wouldn't it be cool if you could use barrels of sulfuric acid to make blue chips directly? Not sure how hard it would be to implement as you would probably need 2 recipes (1 pipe based and 1 barrel based with empty barrel output)

Going down this road would render pipes utterly redundant.

Gun turrets have a neat DPS on paper but the physical damage resistance of behemoth biters makes them obsolete. They also lack the range to properly deal with spitters which has the same effect much earlier in the game. Additionally, setting up the logistics to supply a wall of gun turrets outside y...

I'm still gonna need barrels in order to transport fluids via logistic network. The most important part of it though is that you can basically use barrels as a replacement for magazines for flamethrower turrets. Otherwise, there would be no elegant way to supply remote FT turrets or properly dose th...

Am I the only one expecting 0.15 not before the end of feb?

Fascinating post. Way to get people interested into technology. Seriously, I'd love to attend you giving a lecture about this. :D Regarding the power generated by nuclear plants, I have some ideas on that from a gamedesign perspective but they are likely not gonna be popular (or possible) because I ...

I just think you grossly misunderstood what I suggest on how to improve circuit logic. Is trying to set that straight really off topic?

I would prefer if use of circuits with reactors was instead strictly optional. Like reactors working perfectly fine without any circuit control, but with some degree of fuel waste. And with circuits the fuel waste can be minimized. Now there would be two choices to minimize fuel usage: the adjacenc...

Huh. That's an unexpected outlash. If you only care about real performance gains then circuits are not for you. Simple as that. Go back to spamming robots, beacons and train systems. Did you actually just turn "go play factorio" into an insult? Really? Was that necessary? I need your help ...

There are many reasons to use circuits. Some are more accessible. Like oil cracking, or backup steam power. They are easy because the involve a static decision: IF condition THEN action. At worst you need hysteresis so something like: IF condition1 THEN enable_action, IF condition2 THEN disable_act...