So... a different type of accumulator? There might be an argument to be made for that, or the ability to 'tech up' existing ones with rarer materials or larger footprints, but that's still no reason to have an electric boiler. At least not yet. Right now, the only use for a boiler is to heat water t...

For those who don't click the links, what's being said is that you can use several splitters to get a 25/75, 12.5/87.5 split quite easily. Simply split the lesser line again, then feed one of the outputs back to the main line. Repeat as needed.

A diesel train is probably the wrong word for it though. My first time, I didn't try building them for ages, since I assumed I'd need to refine oil to be able to fuel them.

That's pretty much how I work as well. I sometimes re-purpose my old burner-drills to digging up spare stone and getting a nice stash of bricks in preparation for making walls, but otherwise that's about identical. My reasoning is, it's easy enough to clear a tree for some fuel which gets you metal,...

I remember seeing something about getting the seed out of your save file and turning it into a scenario... a bit hackish, but it's there, maybe.

The character-thoughts in the lower left would be pretty interesting, maybe combined with some sort of pager or other alert system. Kind of like the news headlines in other management games. A mixture of useful things (E.g. 'Ore deposit depleted' or 'Power station under attack'), interesting tidbits...

I'd be more willing to use burner-inserters in the early game if I could turn them into something useful once I had access to electric. It would make new early-tech components a little more promising if they could be recycled or even upgraded.

I'd like to see this as a function of Splitters. Maybe not basic splitters, but certainly some sort. Actually, just a 'logical splitter' would be pretty great. Smart Inserters can do the job too, but it's clunkier, so maybe make the smart splitter available after them. A splitter that you can tell P...

I'm not sure if I agree with that. From a realism point of view it's adding an uneeded step. Use solar energy to make electricity to boil water to turn a turbine to generate electricity. If there were other things that required boilers, then an electric one would be worthwhile. But having one genera...