First crack at Nauvis space science packs after a long time away from the game. Initially stretched the solar panels out to four, but seems stable with three on each arm and quite happy with the result. Haven't explored the space expansion beyond this yet.

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Looks like it strikes a fantastic balance between starter base requirements and when you have logistic support. I wouldn't worry about excess units or elaborately wiring it, provided you set sensible restrictions on the boxes. Very nice design!

I always completely ripped up the starter base ...

Unfortunately it is impossible to automatically insert more than 12 fish (one stack inserter's-worth). As soon as the 12 fish are inserted, the rocket launch starts and no more can be inserted. You can, of course, insert 100 by hand and receive 100 fish.

Put 100 science packs in a box, cut power ...

Good thing we can't spam an oil field with beacons in real life, eh?

Holy wow.. popped in for a look at the release state and ran into a wall of text. This patch is well beyond epic. :)

I don't suppose medium poles have had their radius increased by one recently to help keep the power grid tidy and to actually be a good option over having to use two overlapping ...

They addressed the concerns very well in Friday Facts #356 .
Also, since some of the concerns relate to the nature of the quickbar (it's not an inventory), in Friday Facts #278 .

I don't think there's really anything else they need to say on the matter and probably can't more than fuel the fire. It ...

Yoyobuae wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:37 am"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~ Rich Cook

Let it. One does not argue right of way with a ferry.

I can create a blueprint and it's in my hotbar/inventory.
After the hotbar's change in behaviour (v17?), you can no longer consider it in the same way as an inventory. I suspect this is an underlying cause of the game behaving contrary to your expectation. The hotbar never contains items ...

Guimdefreitas wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:28 amas I get nearer and nearer to the ending

There's an ending? I always seem to stop playing for a while before I reach a point where I might stop demolishing and rebuilding in different ways.. and this is typically well after I have multiple nuclear facilities. /shrug

Jap2.0 wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:45 am

Krazykrl wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:48 pm Belts are practically the only linkages anyhow, and building layered spaghetti would be absurd.

In a good way?

Or like Trefunge-98 with forking instruction pointers?

Maybe someday there will be a 2.0 version in 3d. Which will be much better than the other Game which will not be named.
Hope not, but who knows.. perhaps it would be great for its own reasons and enough people would love it to justify the time and energy to create it. But 3d isn't always better ...

Excellent change in beacon design!

I like the ideas of reversing the electric animation and merging adjacent beacons.

Still with the spike, though it's much better than in the red design. I wonder if taking the shorter antennae from that design would have been better, especially if they arc ...

Medium electric pole coverage radius is one tile short from actually being useful in most places (instead of being stuck with a pole-spam choice of two medium or two small poles to accomplish the same thing).

Not if you set up your assemblers to account for them, then they're the exact right ...

Medium electric pole coverage radius is one tile short from actually being useful in most places (instead of being stuck with a pole-spam choice of two medium or two small poles to accomplish the same thing).

Custom (snipped and restrung) copper wires aren't saved in blueprints - I acknowledge that ...

Electricity can become slightly complicated if you want to isolate circuits..
And also extremely tedious in some cases where you want to isolate rows of assemblers that share beacons because even with the smallest poles it can require manually snipping and reconnecting the wires between specific ...

<snip>Before going forward, I'd like to ask if it is okay to use graphics from the Factorio source files on my website. You can <snip> view the full website at <snip>.
With due respect to your intellectual property, I understand that the source files of Factorio are property of Wube Software, and I ...

I realize it's a small team and making a quality game takes time, but sometimes I have to wonder if your priorities are in the wrong place. I really don't care about better switches, or railroading pathing, mod debugging, ect. After years of small updates the game needs some more meat on its bones ...

Being able to toggle stations is great, but the available features in vanilla still don't allow fully automating anything but fairly simple situations without some crazy complex circuitry and/or jumping through hoops.

I'd very much like to see an event condition, perhaps which sits outside the ...

BattleFluffy wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:00 am

Seems your rockets are running a bit behind schedule.

I have made a bit more progress on my base, which now has just over 4GW of available power, and I have noted a few more things.

Not a big fan of dummy stations, and I'm not sure they're needed now that trains will return to their unload stacker if loading stations are all disabled.

I don't recall ...