Howdy. I've been dabbling with 0.15 (a great update--new science opened the game anew for me) and have been wondering what is most viable approach to tackle science. In my current game I already set blue and purple science up but the influx of red circuits is not enough to support both let alone HT ...

This is somewhat frustrating. First of all, I haven't observed any repeatable patterns in game behaviour -- this means that a bug cannot be easily reproduced. Moreover, I am not 100% faulty behaviour is really caused by Factorio itself. Anyway. My rig is Lenovo Y700. That's an 8GB modern laptop -- I...

Aw, right, thanks.

So if I wanted to impose on myself some goals to make the game less... erm, sandboxy, mind if I ask some questions regarding achievements? How do they work exactly, in particular I am thinking of: * Mass production ( Produce N Electronic circuits ): the number required, it does pertain to the game, ...

When on Earth would you ever need 120000 light oil?

You also have the end game option that makes it very hard once you build a rocket silo. I asked because I tried your mod yesterday but then came to realization that they revised the expansion AI and wanted to be sure that vanilla and your mod do not interfere with each other. If they don't, as you ...

Actually, I don't feel like following that link :/

@zebediah49: hey, that looks cool! Thanks, that's even simpler and neater. However, I am not that sure about giving up on chests -- they are a buffers of some kinds and should there be a shortage of anything, science would keep on going. That's not something, though, that would made me not using you...

I am not really interested in new types of biters nor buildings but would like to try out new expansion AI. The question is though if with new expansion mechanism they added in 0.13, is there any difference between NE Expansion and vanilla?

This thread and this reddit may be of help.

Bear with me, I am lacking a tool to annotate the images and can only hope words are enough in this case. Setup: http://i.imgur.com/cVZJ6EG.png A. Top left blue is a hack / for presentation purposes only. It loads coal to a chest which in your case is a cargo wagon; B. Green stack inserter unloads f...

Hi. Thanks. Right, it should have said "leisure". Pardon my mistakes, for some reason I can't turn on spell checking in my browser. Anyway. After spending, as I do strongly believe, hundreds of hours on factorio, I come to thinking that there are several "layers" of how you play ...

Prior to advanced cracking: set up two / three refineries; for each, set up a factory producing flame thrower fuel. It happens that it needs 2.5 LO + 2.5 HO -- same ratio is yielded from standard cracking. Once you have advanced cracking: 5 refineries, 7 chemical plants from LO to petroleum cracking...

I made it. Took me twentish game-hours (preceded by tens if not not hundreds of failed attempts) to launch the rocket. Not much style applied, mind you, other than I limited myself to use only gun turrets and steam engines. Oh, and no robots. The latter is just a nuisance and a chore. Whatever; even...

True words were spoken, that's a handsome base you got here, thanks for sharing. Few questions, if OP does not mind: 1. I noticed you don't use chain signals. Doesn't your station get clogged with trains awaiting the entrance? 2. Did the base was planned ahead or rather it grew organically? Did you ...

You're right, it looks a bit more compact: http://i.imgur.com/3Vdqa3n.png Personally I strive to feed in only raw resources i.e. I would always make green circuits on site. Yours is very clean and "airy", from the lack of better word. I like how you managed to align all assemblers in one l...

Yikes, missed that, thank you.

Thanks! Dump is more than enough, thanks. Any chance to add biters data to the output - from the quick glance it shows info on resources only.

Evening. Is there a command to list current map settings (frequency / richness / size of resource patches)?

Thanks.

Just don't you forget to limit storage of the chests to just one slot or you may end up with hundreds of iron gears.