Rocket got launched. Part 1 of the operation became getting roboports and about 3 ips of steel online. Setup was pretty good, accomplishing quality at mines is done by using a train at each mine for normal, and then one on a 2 minute schedule for all the uncommon cake and rare frosting material ...

The nuance of amount of pollution saved by the fact that you will produce 2x as many plates with the same coal is marginal, as you need about 7 coal per 100 plates with stone furnaces, down to 3.5 or so with steel furnaces, the reduction if you look at the supply chain is less than 5% not around ...

There's a nuanced way that pollution is reduced. The steel furnace uses 2x pollution (4 pollution per minute v. 2). So pollution doesn't change there. And that's important to note.

But if you look at the supply chain... well I need half as much fuel.
If you put uranium fuel into a stone furnace, I ...

May as well as call it fixed in 2.1 since at that point "none of the thrusters will swap fluid".

The only thing left is the inconsistent behavior between the map editor (I can't place thrusters) and remote view (I can). Seems like a debatable edge case, I'm not taking it too seriously. Thanks for ...

What I did:
Placed thrusters in a row using remote view in the map editor. Attached infinity pipes so they had fluid. Fired a short thruster burst towards Gleba.

Following up on a rumor from reddit, found the thrusters distribute fluid in an inconsistent pattern.
Common logic indicates that you ...

Absolutely. 2x speed for the same energy input is incredible. Electric furnaces make them obsolescent because they are beacon compatible but you can buy your first rocket with them. When moving to a different surface, they have value because you can run without an electric grid.

Depending on your ...

Well, keep in mind. I have a bet. But a bet isn't great criticism.

There's a lot of ways you can generate a small chunk at the edge of an operating envelope. Right up until that point the platform does its job. The solution might not be to redesign the ship, but to redesign the operating schedule ...

I know why top right breaks. And belts are First in First Out, so if the ammo depletes from anything on the left side the right hand side will end up being short. How it is breaking is another story. Any one of 3 ammos can be exhausting to cause the effect.

If I had to bet it's minigun ammo ...

It's tricky, because it is in the context of Space Age. It will make the game a lot easier if what you're expecting is the base game Factorio experience.
If you're running with multiple players I'm going to bet you'll average rocket launches in 2-6 hours w/out touching the settings. And then... you ...

https://youtu.be/TS9gRvrzZdQ

Decided to start a new game with the following goals: Rush to Space, Logistics Embargo, No Spoon, No Time For Chit Chat.
Got put up the first 7:15~ is to the first rocket launch. Map was surprisingly light on enemies. Quality is being done in furnaces and mines. The ...

I think I took too much time in the beginning of the game designing a scalable solution and took all the fun out of it.


The difficulty scaling in the game is exponential as angramania pointed out. So you can get to a point where there's a huge spike in difficulty that you catches you off guard ...

Go into a map preview and reseed till you see a desert. That allows pollution to spread much more aggressively.

*Comes back later*
*Notices entire board dedicated to maps*
*Looks at script for next in youtube series that has been distracting him*
I need more coffee.

I ran into a few oddball seeds last year. It's funny because I had at least one where I went "Oh. That's why this feature is here."

I ran a search to see if there's a thread dedicated to oddball or funny seeds (for instance "safe gleba", "bot fulgora" or the ever popular "masochism desert"; which ...

Quality has paradox logic in it. Because it's an optimization mechanic and you can always apply an optimization mechanic to itself. It's even more fun because it's hard to decide whether or not you have an ideal product. Paradoxes are like circular reasoning because underlying conditions contradict ...

Saying "you know, that simulation was fun" gives mod developers a chance to examine why it was fun. And build institutional knowledge in the company and community. A mod developer might be interested in fiddling around with the heat system because that has similar traits to the old fluid system ...

Maybe i'm not getting, but can't you wire a pumpjack to read the whole patch "expected ressources" ? , write that number in a constant combinator when you create the oil outpost, and then compare it with the one that deplete over time, and use a speaker or a display pannel to tell you when the ...

What he seems to be misunderstanding though is that game version 1 being compatible with ones tastes does not guarantee game version 2 to be compatible as well. So he adds even more hours of (IMHO) useless complaining to his tab making the missbuy even worse ;)


It's not necessarily useless ...

Reminds me of the sculpture, Fountain. It says something about your choices.

I'm blue collar. If the engineers don't listen to us on account of having to lubricate the work with a necessary amount of curses then we don't get the UI fixed by a web developer. So there has to be faith being given up and down the organizational chart.

Reason why I was sending sushi to a manager ...