If you have it flicker every frame and don't have rocket silos with the item preloaded on planet, your workaround works. Still should be properly addressed though

Would this not significantly lessen the challenge of aquilo?

As far as I can tell promethium storage was unintended but is balanced (I can't remember where but I remember seeing something saying it was unintenened). It seems to be like importing rocket components (specifically blue chips and LDS) to Gleba: is it easier? probably; does that mean I will ignore ...

radical_larry wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 8:31 am Maybe let quality plants also emit more pollution.

Well they would give less fruit per pollution and take more space to grow, so...

MichaelJCaboose wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2026 7:19 am And considering it is an actual material we use in science stuff

I don't think any sciences use uranium. In fact uranium is optional (though I wouldn't recommend skipping it).

I think it is fine as it is. Instead they should allow you to use boilers in space with certain types of fuel as per my suggestion so that you can indeed skip researching solar panels completely without being deadlocked after launching the first rocket.


I'm not sure how this is an alternative ...

What happens when I put in 170 times whatever the initial one costs?

(also 1G is way more than I would expect anyone to ever do)

No, the simplest is to just upcycle the minerals at the mines, that's the least complexity. It's much easier than space casino, and much more UPS efficient, just overall better in every aspect in late game once you have so much productivity level it trivialize the ressource cost. It just can't ...

2833680766 wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:35 pm Hello, everyone. I am back.

I think you should read the thread I linked earlier. People have already gone through the calculations you are doing.

I freaking hate quality.

Ok? i absolutly hate it, I would have love that we need to speend the same amount of resources we currently do but we get 100% whatever we want because it's not quality i hate, but how it was implemented, aka GAMBLING.

You need to squint really hard to see quality (once ...

Could you just copy the world and work on that?

Is you want to have a cap you should look at https://mods.factorio.com/mod/productiv ... logy-limit

h.q.droid wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 3:38 am I think a more fair n is between 1.5*0.25 (EM plant / foundry without quality in maker)...

I think there would be modules of some kind in the maker though?

Check out viewtopic.php?t=125262

So people who bring flying robot frames and green chips wouldn't get it?

The mixture of water and ammonia is eutectic. That means water is liquid when it is part of the solution, and freezes into ice when separated. If you throw ice into an ocean of solution, the ice will dissolve.
And by the way, water ice would drown in pure liquid ammonia. For a solution it depends ...

Something like what you are asking for here is already doable with just interrupts. Not sure why such a complicated new entity would be needed.

The issue with this is recipes that dynamically change quality (ie: circuit network setting recipes).

Derp, completely forgot about the whole 'rockets need iron' thing. You're right about that. (my thought process had actually been that you just, ship all the stuff needed to build a rocket to Gleba, but uhh, that would be mightily expensive...)

If you've done Vulcanus or Fulgora before Gleba ...

It's been a year and this anti-automation still hasn't been fixed... Allow us to control thrusters with circuits as well.


For the thrusters thing I would recommend controlling pumps with circuits. I don't really see a problem with that.


Yes that's how everyone does it but every machine ...