Just throwing this out... I'd love to see a version of Industrial Revolution that allowed for steam power to be used all the way to (steam-powered) rockets. It could be a really ridiculous and awesome looking steampunk fantasy version of IR3. Of course, tons of ridiculous team-powered technologies a...

You don't have to log in to use Discord. I don't log in and have communicated with people over there about SE.

Fluid dynamics (including turbulence) is something that actual physicists still cannot model accurately. That's hwy we still have wind tunnels. So to even be able to begin to accurately critique fluid mechanics on Factorio, I'd expect you'd need a phD. I agree with jacmiech1. Forget the fluid mechan...

I'd be happy to fill it out but the form you created requires a Google ID to use it.

You may have better luck if you fix that.

Yup, build those rocket sections in a regular ol' Assembling Machine on Nauvis.

And yup, you're not flying anywhere in a capsule just yet. You can hitch a ride on that first cargo rocket flight, though!

You should look at Industrial Revolution 3. There's a ton of steam power in that mod (and it looks gorgeous).

Steam doesn't do anything but take a cut of your money. That's simply not true. After you bought a game, steam provides the steam cloud for shared saves. It provides a one-click-install process and keeps the game up to date. It provides installers for decades - even long after the original game web...

I understand, but I doubt that anybody at Wube has anything do to with how Steam prices their stuff. I doubt they can even legally talk about it. If you don't think it's "fair", then go ask Steam about it (and let us know what they say). In the meantime, just send your friend to Wube's web...

You should buy it from Wube. It's less expensive, and Wube gets to keep more money. Steam doesn't do anything but take a cut of your money.

Are you asking about why is Steam charging different prices, or Wube? As far as I can tell, the price is the same for everybody at Wube's website.

Thanks for the response! Falling on getting hit makes sense, for sure. Otherwise, yes, hand-to-hand combat would be too easy. But the damage at speed thing... I don't see how that would help balance combat. If I'm moving fast enough that I start taking shield damage (I think I've got 4 blue jetpacks...

I've added a few advanced jetpacks to my spacesuit in Space Exploration. Now, when I move around, (by jetpack, of course) and I get up to full speed, I see my shields start to go down, like I'm getting hit by biters. My shields come right back up once I slow down or stop. I imagine that there must b...

Video game pre-orders are done by (scummy) companies that need to fund their development while they're doing it. Instead of borrowing money (or, how crazy is this...) building on previous profits, they instead borrow that money from the players. Once they have a large amount of pre-order money from ...

This level of complexity when it comes to train refueling isn't necessary at all. But if it makes the original poster happy, then go have fun! My entire re-fueling scheme involves just a single blue chest at each train station. That's it. Personally, I'm not interested in creating an unnecessarily c...

If you think that circuits aren't used enough in vanilla play, just play a mod. You 100% need circuits to complete Space Exploration, for example. But, the beauty of Factorio is there are many different ways to play the game. Some people like circuits, some don't. Some like trains, some don't. There...

A someone who is in the process of trying to teach myself C, this is a super cool project (I learned about malloc just last night, in fact). Practically, I wish a 12% performance boost would help. But, considering that most people with UPS problems are growing approaching exponentially, 12% won't he...

Why would anybody get Factorio from gog.com? Why wouldn't you just get it straight from Wube?

It's not any easier than this. 9/10 times, there's a way to do what you're trying to do without circuits. I built a vanilla megabase with no combinators or deciders at all, for example. Of course, people do crazy stuff, writing programs that do all sorts of stuff with the combinators and deciders, b...

Extra buildings (and extra everything) will continue through the game unless you explicit destroy it. But, as you proceed through the game, you'll see that storage is essentially unlimited and all of that extra stuff won't matter (and you will have a LOT of extra stuff). Just create a chest, toss yo...

I don't know what the "cybersyn" mod is, but it's easy to do in Vanilla. Set the train station pickup limit to zero or 1, depending on the value from a chest. It will take exactly one wire. Run wire from chest to train stop. If chest contents > x, set train stop limit to 1. If chest conten...