Ah, nullius type rech unlocks. Very nice. That actually helped keep that game's massive number of tech tiers under control. However, I still don't feel quality is right, and you still should have alternate recipes instead. But more of a substituting ingredients thing, using a red circuit instead of...

Yeah, they normally create these large clusters while they're still preparing for the attack. When you pollute enough, the newly spawned ones on the outside are blocking the ones ready to attack on the inside. I still get about 200 biters per minutes despite these clusters, but it seems that those c...

It feels like you may have overdid that fix to the biter belt exploit - blue belts barely slow them down, which doesn't quite fit how much of an effect belts have on the player character. That said, I've only ever used it in the most hard-core emergencies - as already mentioned, they're quite ugly, ...

If the motivation for changes is to make entry level simpler, I get it. Just look at the Steam achievement percentages to see the low proportion of people who stick with the game. Do you really think that 55% people getting all the way to oil processing is a bad number? What games are you comparing...

I enjoy the map editor very much, and especially the multiplayer capability. Have you guys given 'triggers' or similar functionality or some other scripting any thought? I've spent several years in the wc3 map editor and would love it if factorio got something similar Factorio is something like 98%...

I don't think Factorio is in much of a danger. The top-down perspective gives many opportunities you just don't get in a first-person game, and building a nice and clean base is much easier in a grid-based system than on "freeform". And yes, I'm pretty worried about the performance too. Th...

Oh! You can also crush the geodes before dissolving them, which also gives you crushed stone. Yeah, never dissolve geodes directly, it just isn't worth it. If you go on power efficiency, geodes are the way to go overall. Both crushed stone/mineralized water and slag slurry production is way more ef...

Things I plan to do with green science before I need to start mining tin or lead, roughly in order: Toolbelt Electric energy distribution Steel furnaces Concrete Inserter capacity bonus Gun turret damage Reinforced concrete walls and that's just the stuff I already know about from the base game; th...

Careful with the recipe tree. Don't forget that some mods give many different recipes with the same results - showing the whole paths all at once would be crazy. "What it's made for", sure - that'd be great. But do try how well the changes work with something like Bob's+Angel's mods. Fluid...

There's two reasons for Flamethrowers - to combat enemy resistances, and to combat large mobs of biters. Until you get to depleted uranium ammo, gun turrets have a very hard time killing bigger biters, and cost tons of materials to support. But you certainly still need the gun turrets - my perimeter...

The first thing on my mind while reading this was "I wonder how many people will come and say that illegal signals are essential in their build". And then I realized there are legitimate (ab)uses of illegal signals. Preventing placement of illegal signals makes sense (though don't forget t...

Looks great :) I wouldn't go with the Space Run thingy, though. At best, you'll make a mini-game which is completely different from the rest of the game. So you play your game for hours, and for the grand finale, you get to play... a different game. The basic idea is really nice, but if you want to ...

For the robot integration, check out the logistic wagons mod, it works quite well. It also massively simplifies building tracks through forests - I carry a ton of construction bots and a deconstruction planner, and they cut the trees and store the wood in another wagon. And of course, I can build a ...

I know, they aren't comparable with ammunition 1:1. Though in some way having to expand and defend the land area for the accumulators is an extra investment one doesn't need (as much) with projectiles. Well, accumulators don't attract biters, so it's quite trivial to build huge farms of them. But t...

Well, since we're talking about different play styles... I stay with coal-powered furnaces the whole game. Electric furnaces are handy, but I only use them in places in which I want smelting capability, but don't want to build a full fledged ironworks with a dedicated coal supply line. I build my fa...

Thourion wrote:... the time it takes to transfer there...

Oh, by all means, I wasn't suggesting switching over The current engine works quite well, and it does allow an interesting level of freedom.

Unity would crumble under the weight of 1000000 GameObjects for sure. Which is kinda sad really :( Well, you always have a lot of tricks to help. And in the end, you could hack together something that pretty much bypasses Unity altogether - but then again, why? :D I've tried Unity for a while. But ...

This would be extremely helpful, especially given how often the trains get stuck on more complicated designs.

Well, if they didn't, it would be your car that would break

In any case, the solution is rather easy - build your bases in a way that makes it easy not to hit anything with a car

A chunk removes 0.6 pollution per tick. This means for the belts to add pollution to the chunk, one belt should at least emit 0.6/32=0.01875 pollution per tick. Well, the point isn't to make a lot of pollution - anything small will still do; it's all about attracting biters to stretches with belts ...