Just don't make it "procedural" like every other game is doing. "Bring me 143 copper ore and I'll tell you your next objective!"

I changed my email designs to minimize crossing tracks. So, in your example I would only enter/exit from the outer track, and any movement between tracks would happen through lane changers that if possible are not crammed together. This. I've found that making JUST enough lane changers to get every...

LOVE the little floaty text things. That would have been EXTREMELY helpful the first time I tried (and stopped) playing Factorio. In a similar vein, a little text when you connect a pipe with water in it into a steam output (or vice versa) would help about 90% of the streamers I've watched :) I don'...

I use yellow through to the endgame for low throughput things. I have a strong moral problem with splitting a red belt into anything other than 2 yellow belts

Very roughly, I use yellow belts when I can get away with it, blue belts when it's needed, and red for everything else.

I support a warning when a bot has to return to the same roboport to recharge without having done anything (except flying) between recharges.

I do not support reworking bot logic to make up for poorly designed networks.

Well, that's easy to explain. If you have a setup, like offshore-pumps or chemical plants with their output facing to another, you can, instead filling 1 pipe, use 2 pipes - if those would not connect, you have less junctions and there for better performance/UPS I know that. It's one of the reasons...

1/6 1/6 2/6 1/6 1/6 If so, that sucks. Hope they'll fix the pipe auto-connection then. While I would also like to dictate how pipes connect, I don't see why this is an argument for it. How would you split 1 pipe into 5 to force 1/5th flow in each by specifying connections, that couldn't be done wit...

The game is playing itself more and more with all this blueprints, and copy and paste-things and upgrade-tools(yellow to red belts automatically). Like a puzzle, where you can press a button and it´s done. Yeah this game about automation offers far too much automation. Yes.. it´s still a GAME not a...

It doesn't even show when there's no unread posts, and if it is shown it's in the same line as the name of the poster below, both of which make it impossible for it ever to be "in one column". The previous icon actually had it's own column, and was always shown, making it the very consistent and ea...

The link-button to the last post of a topic (search results + my posts) is now behind the nickname instead of infront of it, making its position non-constant and thus more difficult to click. Try the icon on the very far left. Not only is it more dynamic (it doesn't link to a post but instead to wh...

I have the opposite problem, I tend to build my factories as separate sections connected by rail. The challenge for me would be to not use trains at all, or to only use them for the rawest of materials.

By the way if you want some fun run by a worm with a ton of exoskeletons equipped. That projectile is RELENTLESS.

Please tell me why worm spits follows a player and not travel in a straight line!? So you can't cheese the aim, by zig-zagging like crazy. If they shoot they hit. Your bullets to the same to them so it's fair. Anther reason probably is that combat is not the focus of the game and this was easier th...

Ohz wrote:Map gen works fine for me

That image pretty much defines what most people say "sucks" about map generation right now. I personally also don't like it but try to avoid the word "sucks" because - well - it sucks as a way to get your point across.

To misquote The Matrix, there is no bend.

Then you'll see that it is not the belt that bends, it is only yourself.

Too many work done, without doing something. The game plays itself with all this contstructions tools and blueprints. Just like bying a puzzle and pressing 1 button and the puzzle is build -> next game. I got excited that I could win so easily with just these few changes so I loaded up a game, inst...

Pascali wrote:The game is playing itself more and more with all this blueprints, and copy and paste-things and upgrade-tools(yellow to red belts automatically). Like a puzzle, where you can press a button and it´s done.

Yeah this game about automation offers far too much automation.

Okay you did it. I'm officially hyped or 0.17.

Well I know what mod I'm downloading from that shiny new mod portal first.

And really I probably would have anyway. Limiting it to 5 nodes is almost as bad as cutting it entirely.

here is a hint. my first computer had 128KB of RAM. :P Luxury! my first computer had I think 128 bytes... have to go look up the specs for the Sinclair ZX81... I believe it had 1024 bytes because it was basically the same as a Timex Sinclair 1000, the 1000 of course stood for 1024 bytes. My TImex S...