Regarding the wow analysis, I agree that convenience killed the game. Dungeon queue with random people, instant teleport and so on. But imho also the reduced difficulty. Dungeoning in vanilla was pleasantly difficult. Burning crusade was maybe even to much difficult (although I loved it). Then wotlk...

Wow. That's a very cool piece of entity. I like it!

I read something about new pollution mechanics in the past patch notes. So I started a new game today. I can't understand if those nasty swarms of 15-30 biters that comes in the first 2 attacks are the new norm or just a balance issue. I mean... I can handle them (I'm on railworld, so...). But I'm s...

Personally I don't understand this "buff the belts" argument. What is the problem with current belts? You upgrade yellow to red, red to blue and then you put down multiple blue. Putting down multiple parallel belts is not a chore is actually a nice evolution of the puzzle in the mid-late game. It's...

Personally I don't understand this "buff the belts" argument. What is the problem with current belts? You upgrade yellow to red, red to blue and then you put down multiple blue. Putting down multiple parallel belts is not a chore is actually a nice evolution of the puzzle in the mid-late game. It's ...

My two cents. Logistic bots are evil only because they are not "realistic". In the sense that they occupy no space and so are collision free. And this allows them to defeat physic and achieve impossible throughput. You can buff belts as much as you like but they will never match logistic bots throu...

My two cents. Logistic bots are evil only because they are not "realistic". In the sense that they occupy no space and so are collision free. And this allows them to defeat physic and achieve impossible throughput. You can buff belts as much as you like but they will never match logistic bots throug...

Without beacons, there would be only one solution to late-game factory building - as many as possible in a straight line. With beacons, there is a tradeoff between length, width, cost and energy usage. Unfortunately, as Tamanous pointed out above, the optimal solution seems to be to sandwich rows o...

The devs already said that they won't add new features in this factorio. But in an expansion I would like to see more weather mechanics. Not only clouds and eclipses could make solar less reliable, but other phenomena like heilstorms, snowfalls, sandstorms, pollen clouds (depending on biome I guess)...

Wtih 0.15 I started a modless run. I wanted to feel how the game is mature right now and in the process I will also unlock some achievments. The game is indeed very close to perfection, but there are still areas to improve imho. The biggest one is blueprints and construction bots. The limitations ha...

_alphaBeta_ wrote:I may have missed this "feature" but why do pumpjacks with no modules display a purple production bar anyway? If this is a bug, I'll report it accordingly.

Mining productivity research affects pumpjacks as well.

At long last! No more bot construction bot babysitting

I had an idea while researching the portable fusion reactor. It seems that it doesn't really belong to any energy tech. It just stands on itself. we can't make big fusion reactors for the factory. How about renaming it portable RTG, and folding it into the nuclear power. It would still work the sam...

Ah my bad. I should have posted it on the release thread where someone attached the screenshot. Well I guess who's looking for the workaround will come here too sooner or later.

timvisee wrote:Edit: Disabling Steam Cloud sync does seem to be a valid workaround.

Actually my Steam for Linux doesn't have the option to disable steam cloud for the specific application.

For me though disabling it globally did the trick as well.

Uhm. My Steam for Linux client doesn't have the disable "steam cloud" checkbox. I guess my contribution as beta tester will be limited to this comment for today

It allows you to pollute more efficiently.

I disagree with this argument that revoking keys only hurts the final buyer. It's because final buyers choose to purchase from shady sellers that this happens. Educate them and you fix the issue. In the material world pretty much every civil state has laws that punish who buys from an obvious fence....

After thinking a lot on it I think Nuclear power should produce something else in addition to energy. Unless solar is changed or nuclear is made to really produces ludicrous amount of energy I highly doubt nuclear will ever be as efficient and convenient compared to it. Yes: solar has a it has a hig...

What impact has this thing on pollution? Apart from mining, refining and enriching I mean. Is the reactor clean or will it produce pollution to compensate for the fact that there is are no by-products or meltdown events to handle?