I've been playing Factorio since 0.16 if I remember correctly. Indeed, I wasn't disappointed

Good point, I actually should have noted that my experience with 2.0 is Space Age only. I completely forgot that they also made some changes to vanilla. 2.0 has too many QoL changes though that I already got used to but luckily at least some of those things can be brought back to 2.0:

https://mods ...

in fact landing pad logistics as a tech would be perfect as a second promethium science research. Or maybe do it like some of the infinite techs, get a couple of levels here and there from finishing planets during midgame, and then the infinite tech is behind promethium.

Not a bad idea, making it ...

I guess a lot of those things are hard to judge unless you actually playtest them and decide how you feel about them, especially that cargo pad and bay limitations are kind of intertwined. I'm not sure if mods can lift all of those limitations so we can at least test it ourselves.

The relevant FFF ...

I see it maybe a bit differently. Some fixes are necessary to keep the logistics as the main focus of the game, true. No inserters on cargo bays prevents you from building a long line of pad+bays and basically teleporting items across long distances. One landing pad per planet prevents you from ...

As in title. This is not strictly a criticism of Space Age but more of a personal preference and observation. I think Space Age is well designed within the constraints it imposed upon itself. The new challenges are fun and the playtime is reasonable (unlike Space Exploration) so it doesn't overstay ...

I'm not sure if this is strictly a bug or an oversight but it's slightly annoying. If I open the chat in remote view it's rendered below some layers, i.e.:

- below locomotive GUI:
- below space map (it looks like chat has no history)