I like thinking of factorio in more of a Nick Land http://www.xenosystems.net/right-on-the-money-2/ direction :twisted: . Focus on capital development for the sake of developing more capital faster, increasing automation, increasing the intelligence of the automated system, if only it's intelligence...

Another way to balance this is to up the limit on inserter bonus research. As it stands follower robot research goes up to 20, I don't see why the inserters couldn't have theirs also go up to 20. Mind you I've been using the boxcar as storage trick to avoid belts all together so I'm biased, since th...

I was thinking about two types of mountain terrain (similar to water and deep water), a low mountain that is still impassable but can be leveled using explosives and high mountains you can bore tunnels through with explosives. The mountain (really a continuous grouping of high mountain terrain) woul...