boskid wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:26 pm

Are all technology dependencies unlocked?

The confusion comes from the dependancies not being shown if I only hover over the Foundry tech in the tree:

It's not very intuitive that the required Calcite processing tech is hidden until I actually click on the Foundry tech.

I am posting this to potentially help anyone who might have the same problem. Since I installed Space Age, I was having these issues: 1. Factorio was no longer using %appdata%\Factorio for saves. I had to search my PC for a word from my save file name to find them in some weird folder (C:\VTRoot\Har...

Sending two groups of spiders like that is hardly what one would call a simple solution. Definitely an endgame option when you can afford building multiple spiders with equipment grids. It's probably works well as you can build arbitrary number of spiders but if you are doing that then it's arguabl...

PLD is actually the hardest thing to use against bigger nests... Having used a spidertron with just lasers against nest is kind of torture and laborious. It's way easier to just artillery them, or deploy a 4x spider army with rockets. With rocket speed buffed, they are even better now. So why exact...

I can imagine that a group of fast legendary spidertrons with like 20+ legendary PLDs in each one of them is so powerful that it might have prompted such a radical rebalancing. And my wild guess is that the devs weren't fans of how powerful and scaleable PLDs already had been, without quality, as an...