This is me suggesting this change in 2014:
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All I can say is: FINALLY

I think map generation parameters need a good preview. I would like to see the effect my changes have, possibly without starting the game. I don't necessarily want to see the exact same map that I would play later, but I would really like to see a map. I would like to see, how may resource patches I...

Balancing: I think combat could be a lot better, when it wouldn't work like those endless MMO treadmill, where the aliens become stronger and then the player gets a bigger gun and so on. Instead of making a bigger weapon and a bigger alien I would like combat to be a bit more tactical. So every weap...

Hello, I recently saw this: https://www.theindiebox.com/ a website, that sells game boxes for games, that I only know as digital only games. Since I am a collector, I would really be happy, if there would a Factorio game box that I can put in my shelf. I would also be very happy, if the box would co...

Three minutes, I am jealous. I wrote my master thesis in a project, where just the include of the dependency that I had to use increased by one minute. This compilation time was per object file. So when you liked to work with several cc files, don't do it anymore, each of them increases the compilat...

Game is built under the rule of minor punishment for creativity and experimentation. You propose something that go directly against that rule: once you've built the immovable object, you cannot just rebuild it in another place. I don't really see where the immovable object is. In cas you did not se...

it's funny that we both use the exact same example. I also think it's funny that we agree in everything without ever having to talk about anything. Then how do we get the developers attention?

Let's be honest about the inventory. It's good to have a big inventory, that can carry a lot of stuff. But when the game should motivate the player to build a logistic network, then it good at a certain point the player is not able anymore to do things manually. I think a good start here could be to...

for me it is now first time playing with spitters and tanks. Despite the fact that I generally like the Idea of a tank, I am not really happy, how it is implemented. There is only one tank, that is the tank. No way to further improve the tank during the game. No way it increase the speed of the tank...

your triangulation doesn't look like it's a Delaunay triangulation. I think if you would implement that, it would improve the visualization even more. There is an incremental edge flip based triangulation algorithm for that, that would fit perfectly for this case, because of the incremental nature o...

if you are interested, you can take my save file from here, I already uploaded it.

Assuming you're using 0.10.x, there's a big "Map Exchange String" button in the bottom left of the load game window. Click it, mark the text with your mouse, hit ctrl-c to copy to clipboard and ctrl-v to paste into a message. Thanks for the info, but unfortunately the copy paste thing did...

That's a huge continent. I agree that it might be interesting for building trains, since it gets way easier to protect the scattered base. that for one reason but most important, fewer resources everywhere, so you have to move out of the base and build trains. You must've suspected that the contine...

since so many people asked, I would like to post the seed of the map, but at the moment I have no idea whare I can do that. I've read something about map exchange strings in the changelog, but when I google them I get to the changelog. So any advice would be helpful.

I fund this thread and I would like to dig it out again, because I really think that that the controls should be redone. There are some problems. I would like to be able to play mouse only, so also walk around maybe like in Diablo. Then an option to play keyboard only, so keys to move windows and to...

if we go in starship troopers direction then I want the alien corpses to pile up until they can walk over my walls :P. But what do you think about an invisible pheromone that is send as soon as an alien dies, so that following aliens know that it is dangerous there and that area might better be avoi...

what do you think about an AI that memorizes where many aliens died and therefore try to avoid those regions on the next wave.

I would like to industrialize the elemination of the aliens. I want techniques to wipe them out that don't involve me to go there manually Wow, back down Adolf :P (sorry for going offtopic) Fun fact, I am from Germany :? . But back to topic. The point is that in factorio automation feels cool, whil...

I would like to have a little preview window when I adjust the map generator. Just to be able to see if the map parameters are what I expect to have. It doesn't have to be the exact result since it's still a random generator, but something that I can get an impression before starting the game.

I'm not sure where to post it, because it is a duplicate feature request. Spawning on an Island is not accepted as a bug. So I write it here. Maybe I just want to talk with somebody about my creations. I am lacking a little bit of oil. I've in total 5 oil rigs. All other oil that I found is unreacha...