That's not really a way to look at it. If someone is new to the game (making the tutorial relevant) and they accidentally stumble upon the posted solutions to the tutorial, they might happily go about designing around that; in which case they've learned nothing.

FatMcK wrote:I just started making my own Factorio .. in Excel with VBA!

God I hate iterators in VBA

I really liked this FFF: It goes to show that they continue to care greatly about optimization, even in fringe situations. That combined with multi-platform support is something I really like - I play Factorio on Windows on my desktop computer and on Linux on my laptop, which is wildly underpowered ...

Thank you. I tried searching for existing suggestions of this using the advanced search, but was unable to find this.

Another way to address the issue I am having (or something that could be implemented alongside my original suggestion) would be to let the player decide the color with which resources are represented on the Map screen; however I realize this would likely be much more difficult to implement, it would...

I would like an option to filter the display of the various resources (ores, oil) when viewing the Map screen. As a player avidly using mods that add resources to the game (Bobs, Uranium Power, etc.), but unfortunately also being colorblind, I find it hard to discern the different kinds of resources...