Thank you for such a great event. From now on after every FFF you should all imagine the applause of the crowd. It's deserved.

Took a peek at the first video, man those are some true boss fight vibes at the end there. I wonder if there is more.

I have to temper that joy though, because i am very disappointed by the inserter rework, i used to rely on this to create very intricate mechanism that would pick things up only if the belts were full and back up, and miss the item otherwise. Isn't this use case covered by splitter output priority?

Can we display a circuit network value in the message? Say something like a pattern, "Iron plates: {}" where the hole "{}" is replaced with the actual number in the circuit network. Would be very handy, especially when space is limited. Displaying a number on the screen itself al...

I love the ever changing message at the end of FFF posts telling us where to show our thoughts.

That intersection is so complex, I can't help but wonder why is it devoid of any trains.

Ron_Quiney wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:33 am

...with that much gatekeeping my only hope is that someone who does care will make a mod.

The ever growing need for client-side only mods... (resource packs)

It's interesting to see how the planet artwork has evolved since initial Space Age FFF. http://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-373-technology-graph-smaller.png So which of the three initially available planets shall we visit first? (To be fair we have yet to see what business will the engineer ...

Why is alt mode showing the modules "inside" the beacons now?

Doesn't "global statistics" imply statistics over a globe, or in other words a planet? I thought that was odd when I was reading the "all the production statistics were global" line because global outside the context of programming is... kind of bounded in scope. Especially when ...

What about steam family sharing?

I mean, family sharing the library with the friend, (so they can play Factorio through Steam) and concurrently playing the drm-free version yourself.

This kind of seems like a gray area to me, so I shall ask if this is allowed.

Here is a thought. Have we actually seen any suggestions that most of us can agree are better than the one the developers went with? This is what they are using currently: Normal Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary I personally don't like the fact it references a particularly... problematic part of the vid...

Next on the list of features that make Factorio feel like an Integrated Development Environment. Absolutely fantastic.

sparr wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:08 pm

I want five names with sequential starting letters, preferably not starting at A or ending at Z to allow for expansion later.

Here's a shot at filling in the gaps...

Common
Decent or Distinct
Enhanced
Fine
Great

Normal
Optimized
Pristine
Quality or Quintessential or Quaint
Refined

Why use the hat in "m/s^2" for unit of measurement of gravity? There is a perfectly good Unicode character for superscript: m/s²

Regarding the Stack inserter and Bulk inserter name FLIP, you better do something about "inserter stack size bonus", "override stack size" and more.

If you use Steam Cloud, you can view the cloud stored saves for Factorio and back them up. Steam syncs them after the game is closed, but if you just overwrote a save and it is still running you can try this. Yes, this has happened to me too before. Fortunately I was already aware of this method bac...

Thank you!

The reason why this is necessary is the whole "2 paths between every splitter I/O pair" idea. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/911659480343805983/940452594520834078/unknown.png What would you consider an "input splitter" in this particular case? What are the two input be...

What about this case? Diagonal straight rail has front and back signal positions overlapping and so the signal binding logic is implemented to choose if a signal is binding to the front or to the back. If one of those is not possible (because there is also curved rail nearby forcing a merge of diag...