Nothing is wrong with it. This is a general discussion about controlling robots. Specific discussion about improving robot control is a suggestion. Which is this other board with the name “Suggestions”. :) My point is more general discussion about how robot system could be improved (in some sense, ...

I think it’s much simpler: Spidy looks just silly when running so fast. :D I’ve been using a mod to put about 30 eco-sceletons in it. The result looks ridiculous, I have been laughing for a minute. :lol: 8-) It may be your opinion, but I think most building oriented players would accept silly looki...

I think the problem is different play philosophies. Others want to keep combat aspect during the game even in endgame and others like that focus of the game moves from surviving through organized defense, active attacking to conquer area and resources to fully automated defense at endgame so that pl...

The bot is super stupid, most things are done by the logistic network controller. This is because if every 🤖 could control himself this would lead to situations, where a new requester chest is placed, all bots would like to fulfill the request at once, which leads to game getting stuck for a second...

On paper yes, but if you provide the software as a game to a wide audience, risk of "misusage" or at least "not intended" usage of the tools you provide will occur. The very existence/implementation of item in the game that could, when misused, create an unpleasant experience fo...

What do you mean with “realistic”? Do you mean some kind of Amazon flying robots, that bring you your orders? :D And what means efficiency for you, if this would mean, that the game runs with 50% of the not so realistic bots version? No, I mean more general things. There are no such transport bots ...

What new game-play would that enable? That’s the good question here. More efficiency and realistic like solutions in logistic problems. Probably nothing for far majority of players. I do no expect this kind of things in Factorio but hope that someone will make more nerdy games with interesting game...

Isn't combinators already programming in factorio? Why add another language? I think combinators are Turing complete. But your picture tells why we (read: I and couple other HC nerds) would like to have text based scripts to control things. Most non-trivial tasks need huge contraption of combinator...

What do you think happens to all the current performance optimizations and your UPS in general if a turing complete ruleset was executed before any bot action? The easiest solution would be two types of bots. Current bots as basic bots and then high tech-bots with sophisticated and preferable progr...

Since beacons are neither intuitively realistic or enabling a greater variety of build designs, I don't personally find them fun. One solution would be simply not to use them, however productivity modules are so powerful that not using them is an extreme nerf to your science output. I agree. I do n...

I play always in window mode so that I can react faster if something happens in game. I do not agree with obligatory autopause. It may be an option but it would prevent running at background to wait something or see how base can run long periods. However, it would be nice if sounds were automaticall...

What would you use trees for? The only thing that makes sense would be wooden chests, which you shouldn’t need unless you are striving for extreme ups and the natural trees should yield enough wood for. There is no use for wood but natural behavior and diversity increases immersion to game even tha...

This sounds to me like removing the work aspects and keeping the fun. It seems to be very common attitude with players and secret of success of this kind of games. However, I would like to have gamemode in which I should plan and build active control systems to adapt all kind of variations in condi...

But I strongly disagree on the opinions that blueprinting " breaks the spirit of the game ". Factorio is a game about engineering, and "blueprinting" (using the existing solution to a specific subproblem to solve a bigger problem) is a common practice in real life, such as in pr...

Barrels are outdated and I tried to find examples in real file where we use barrels. Most of them are small scale examples so they won't fit this game. There are couple of uses. Barrels are very practical in machine workshops to produce blue belts and electric motors. They are also good in sulfuric...

What kind of challenge do you think to get with these changes? Then you should build several types of turrets everywhere. There would not be any strategic decisions anymore. Now player can use nature as defense and save significant amount of game resources and work by wise choice. I like such challe...

BTW, the reason that “no pollution” was suggested was because it does consume some of your UPS. So do biters, especially when your fixed Artillery has cleared everything in range, but suddenly gets a range increase (due to tech). It was not about the challenge (or lack thereof) at all. Exactly. Meg...

Can't say I'd enjoy it. Early game when steam is your only source of power it'd result in more micro. Busywork essentially. If I had a circuit network or something to have control over it maybe I'd like it, but I can't see the appeal. Later on it doesn't matter nearly as much. When I got nuclear po...

I'm not unfriendly to the devs. I would even understand if they decided that pathfinding is good enough. Color me instead surprised. We are talking of a team of devs who put thousands upon thousands of hours into a finely tuned game, but somehow the pathfinding is not making justice to it, and is n...

Unfortunately for the biters, they are not meant to be a serious RTS style challenge for the player. Instead, they are meant to just be some pressure, a resource sink into which the player puts defensive then offensive efforts. I would not expect them to improve the biter AI. The game is very highl...