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by VikingScientist
Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:30 am
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Laser turret suggestion
Replies: 6
Views: 3768

Re: Laser turret suggestion

To answer your why should it be changed , then this would make the "tower defence" part of playing factorio more interesting. You would need to make a balanced compromise between AOE damage (flame turrets, mines), DPS (poison), high-dmg-low-rate-of-fire (lasers) and general-purpose (gun tu...
by VikingScientist
Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:38 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Solar panels less of a no-brainer
Replies: 378
Views: 193277

Re: Solar panels less of a no-brainer

I was thinking of putting the idea of electric boilers in a brand new thread, but after searching then I decided to bump this thread instead. In short I would like to see electric boilers introduced to heat water during daylight hours using solar panels, and then redirecting the hot water to turbine...
by VikingScientist
Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:57 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Constraining terrain/events
Replies: 1
Views: 1103

Constraining terrain/events

TLDR ; Implement terrain and/or situations which restrict familiar designs or combat strategies. Why To avoid players getting stuck re-using the exact same blueprints for factories, or re-using their "perfect" combat strategy all the time, try and force situations where they have to think...

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