Oh boy oh boy, maybe 1.0 soon?

Loewchen wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2019 1:56 pm You need to retire the we can not change it now, people are already used to it argument, if you genuinely believe a change makes the game better, not changing it is wrong.

I couldn't have said it better, this should always be a core idea when discussing new changes.

Same problem here, vanilla version 16.38, no mods.

0.001 2018-04-29 22:52:11; Factorio 0.16.38 (build 36364, win64, steam)
0.001 Operating system: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
0.002 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe"
0.002 Read data ...

Hello, after i've read the Friday Facts #224 - Bots versus belts, i immediately thought of somthing i've been thinking about for a long time.

The problem:
I dont think that you have an actual bots problem, i think that you have a late game energy problem. I reason being that once the train ...

Well first i wonder how you can argue that you can not know how much effort each of the suggestions would take. The way i see it if you would just ad both system straight up it would be the following implemation:

(Improvised programing setup)

Send contents to the network.

- read construction ...

I'm sorry, it seems, that I pressed EDIT instead of REPLY, and so I overwrote/deleted this post somehow yesterday... :oops: Hadn't had this since more than a year now. Sorry again, but it's just the number of posts, that make such stuff happen. For the edited points: I didn't delete anything, there ...

each roboport can say "I need bots", and then the free robots fly to this roboport themselves.
Okay, that would work, but there are two issuess with this.

The first is a practical one for the devs, as i see it; either the devs could design a system that would spread all the bot evenly and ...

Yes bring the old circuits back, it was much more convenient to handle large networks of cable

also:

I +1 the suggestion of bringing chaining back, but the new behaviour is also useful sometimes, so it should be active when a modifier is held down (like ctrl or alt).

yes but if you want to have ...

First to be clear, i do not mean the amount of "Available" robots since it has already been implementetd in the recent patch. I mean that the content of one specific roboport shoud be readable through a circuit network.

The reason being that if you had this information then you could for example ...