My cost function is as follows:

1. Time when factorio is in foreground
2. # of items crafted

Only context switch to factorio once per day

I heavily weight 1 but 2 is is something I'm trying to minimize as well. The issue is that 2 and 1 are competing goals. Less hand crafting requires more time ...

It wouldn't surprise me if Kovarex/Wube helped fund SE before modder joined Wube..

Very unfortunate they didn't (or couldn't?) just start extending SE out of gate after they hired him instead of doing SA.

I am pretty sure they could have taken a free updates forever approach like Terraria and ...

Has anyone tried this before?

Challenge is to see how little 'play time' it takes to launch a rocket. The catch is that you're allowed to run Factorio in the background for as long as you want.

Different ways of measuring playtime could be used, I suppose, such as number of 'actions' (craft ...

Just make a make max productivity on assemblers and stuff like efficiency modules to +60 or whatever if you're worried about going over.

It's like, why bother make legendary productivity.

Yeh, that's what I thought. I get the sense they really don't want us to do manual downloads.

At least they got the autosave right

Right now I feed crap onto belts, download the remainder, and then refeed it back into my orbital cargobay. This is super lame though.

I like building the orbital bases. I didn't expect that to be fun at all.

That said, I still think it's very poorly designed. Eg, https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=126228 "Not a fan of unloading" I am still not a fan. Having to add cargo bays in order to manually download seems bizarre ...

It seems odd to me they don't just prioritize manual offloading. I use it infrequently but I have to add all these cargo bays just to enable it.

Is there a way to trigger a launch with a circuit? I'm feeding manually the inventory into the rocket rather than pulling via logistics and would like to launch it based on some condition.

Yeah, I didn't mind the limit. It made my orbital bases more interesting as I built more higher order products to minimize the down load. It worked well. With all these cargo bays it just seems lazy and messy.

Weird. Everything was working fine and nicely balanced. It was just annoying I couldn't manually transfer stuff. Anyways, it fixed it I guess.

Still not a fan. Seems silly I have to add so many cargo bays just for this.

I have a number of satellite bases off nauvis mining the asteroids and building stuff to auto drop. Ok, that's very cool and very fun.

Problem is now when I try to manually offload using the shift click that I brought from another planet, it takes like an hour(!) for stuff to unload. There is some ...

This is the only thing I'm looking forward to right now, is SpaceX support for 2.0

I might go back in and finish up SA, but not feeling it atm. SpaceX with quality and the new trains sounds like lots of fun though.

I'll be honest, factorio should have just started with SpaceX and reworked it ...

Gleba is quirky and quite challenging which is the point of factorio for me, so I am mostly ok.

Though weirdly I got to the gleba science and it's doing this weird thing about being consumed too quickly. Hopefully there is something I've yet to discover there, but if so it's weirdly hidden in a ...