I think it has to do with the large number of small holes next to each other, which bothers some people more than others

The explosives/cliff explosives icon, specifically the circles on the left side, look blurry and hurt my eyes at certain zoom levels. Steps to reproduce: Open game Look at explosives icon or Open explosives.png Set zoom level anywhere from ~75% - 275% Look at second-largest icon This is on a monitor...

When I started my game there was a recipe for wood from naphtha, I *think* it's from Angel's Petrochem. Several upgrades later I tried to make more, but the recipe has disappeared. Chemical plants that were previously making it still are, but I can't make any new ones. Edit: According to someone on ...

Is it possible to import jpegs/pngs as maps, allowing creating maps graphically?

It's mainly meant as a GUI suggestion. For example, you could have: Warehouse Unload Copper Iron Steel Belts Unload Load Batteries Unload Copper Unload Iron Load which would fold to: Warehouse Batteries Belts allowing you to find the right stop more easily and helping prevent any unwanted namespace ...

A bit tangental, but reintroducing the jamming bug as a feature seems like it would be a good way to help balance loaders.

Also, the game is designed to encourage automation, so making handcrafting, a non-autonomous task, easier seems against the spirit of the game.

Add a train station, to which train stops can be added. On the map only the station's name would show, in the train GUI all its stops would be collapsed under it. This would make it much easier to read the map and find the right stop when you have many stations with many stops each.

Having read this I started paying attention, and I also almost always end up using <.

I'm saying that given the following signals G / \ G G | | R G | | G G \ / G when the red signal is caused by a train on the tracks, a train going from the top node to the bottom one will choose to use the right branch, even if it is longer than the left branch, whereas if the red signal is caused by...

Agreed. As it is, it is very unintuitive why items can enter from one side of it but not the other; they are equally blocked by the hood.

I set gates to close at yellow, and the signal to go red when you're using the gate. That way if you get there before the signal is yellow, the train has time to stop and let you through, but if the train is too close, you can't enter.

And given such heavy use they are something the player-base wants, and should be added to vanilla.

Currently a train will alternate routes if another train is blocking its path, but not for a red signal from the combinator network. A possible fix would be to have the close signal option generate a ghost train in its block to encourage proper pathing. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/...

I agree that train pathing in general still needs a lot of work. Fixing that the train won't move in this situation would help with stations. Even though the train could easily go around the red signal with very little distance in difference, it insists on waiting. http://images.akamai.steamusercont...

If in a case like this the train were able to choose anothe path, and if tracks could detect the presence of trains, that would be handy, but having the tracks do anything more than that seems excessive. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/269472816324258198/E97425F84C7A142C5946396164622E0...

I like it. +1 for the Factorian.

Or perhaps let radar output the distance of the closest enemy.

Why can't you just use a signal?

Room really isn't an issue in Factorio, there's always more land to be claimed.