That brings me to an idea for a mod.
Asteroid reprocessing becomes an end game tech unlocked with promethium science, and the three reprocessing recipes also take a few promethium chunks that are fully consumed. But quality modules can be used for that recipe.
Finally some interesting shit to do ...

The game will never cover every use case for rocket loading with baked-in behavior, that's just the nature of things. Which is why we need to be able to
1. set requests on the silo with circuits, just like on requester chests (it even has one in the sprite now)
2. launch the rocket with a circuit ...

Research speed should be -10%, not -9.99%

Petroleum products need coal liquification. As neither the boiler nor the heat exchanger works on a space platform, you can only do that via nuclear power. So you have to import nuclear fuel cells for that, making it nor entirely space based.

And for stone, you can space mine calcite, turn that ...

I'm playing a 10x science in a desert, no trees/water run. Honestly it feels like that's what the game was always intended to be.
Essential tech doesn't take so long that biters out-evolve you. Chunk pollution shenanigans are irrelevant because there's no trees to absorb pollution and sand tiles ...

Really nice addon to the combinator, I love it


or you can just use the Stone to upcycle Concrete, which will result in Quality Iron Ore being created alongside.

I don't see the point in that. It takes a lot more machines and modules to get a trickle of quality ore, compared to setting up some ...

One of the costs of producing quality items is dealing with byproducts. Otherwise, what's the point?

I think the double bonus of legendary could be spread across rare, epic and legendary.
So uncommon = 30%, rare = 70%, epic = 110%, legendary = 150%
Cost for each quality level scales exponentially, so uncommon is already quite strong for how easy it is to get. Rare and epic could use some love though.

I do not really see where you are coming from. They have very clearly communicated what the intention for Factorio is. It's pretty much done. If you do not like quality, they have just provided a way to turn that off while still being able to play the rest of Space Age. It's clear they wanted to ...

Entitled? Factorio wouldn't exist without the community. Wube wouldn't exist without the community. Without the support, feedback, suggestions, bug reports, guides, mods, discussions and countless hours of free marketing in videos.

And then they drop SA without any consultation and go silent for ...

The game is not fixed at 60 ups, and machines may run faster or slower depending on beacons, modules, and available power. Functionally, these things don’t matter at scale - scale the game heavily encourages and incentivizes.

All those factors could still be accounted for in fixed point math ...

Other than that, I feel like SA is just missing content. It feels like 4/5ths of a game. It feels like there should be SOMETHING else at the endgame - the above suggestions about different recipes for quality and productivity would suffice. But also I feel the planets are lacking. As I wrote above ...

I think the real problem is that there's medium asteroids in orbit at all, they could be removed for the inner planets and not much would change. Maybe replace them with small asteroid chunks spawning, if it's about the principle of the other planet orbits not leaving broken ships up without some ...

Discouraged to use beacon for quality is a mistake.

I think the reason why it has to be that way, and why quality is such an amazing idea, is because it is an inherently different process from regular item crafting.
Quality is generated by quality modules occupying slots in an assembler that is ...

The idea is pretty simple, different tiers of quality modules could have different crafting speed modifiers. Quality 1 modules get a -2.5% speed modifier, Quality 2 stays the same, quality 3 gets -7.5%.
The motivation for this is that currently quality 1 modules are absolutely pointless, the time ...

Would it be possible to allow all machines connected to one fluid source to take turns being the first to update? So they all rotate through a queue, first machine updates, then second, and so on, then the first machine gets sent to the end of the queue for the next tick. This would appear like even ...

Oh damn, I just realized that doesn't affect entities other than combinators. Really stupid and annoying.

It's possible to enable the wire selectors with a hidden config:

Go to the game menu and CTRL-SHIFT-click Settings, then choose "The rest", then activate circuit-network-selection-always-enabled:

Thank you so much, that was annoying me since they added this """feature""", I never knew there was ...

The devs didn't spell it out, but:
- connect your landmines so that any one detonating will break the circuit
- add a constant combinator with a signal on one side of the circuit
- add an edge detector for that signal on the other side

Seems like the whole circus is arriving to prove me right, in that there's no point to discuss this.