Please before you leave improve combinators and quality interactions. It's the only thing that feels neglected in this expansion.
In general operating combinators without knowing the item type and or quality beforehand is between a huge pain and impossible task.

I play with friend in different forces and I mined the vault ruin first. Now I can't find another anywhere near. Would be strange to block him from most of the content because of it.

Any workaround? Seems like mine also disappeared and I can't research something again since all planets are researched.

Don't know what to add really.
Didn't know I could right click to remove pistol -> set count to 0 -> started PvP -> game crashed.
Restarted with the same settings, but removed the pistol -> scenario works fine so far.

I could suggest a bit more common-user friendly solution that allows placeholders.

Just make it possible to output either text or value from the network. And add the ability to merge messages instead of exiting on the first true condition. So each condition could use one of three options.
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Sorry for necroposting.

I found a lot of questions regarding this, several mods to implement it, and it bothers how inconsistent it is with the rest of the game.

If not an upgrade planners - at least blueprints with modules should work the same as with every other entity. Chest, inserters ...

I'm sure I've seen a post here asking for proper VCS for blueprints that includes stuff like this.
I'm confident VCS is an overkill for Factorio, it's almost impossible without introducing a lot of extra interface. And I'm confident devs don't like extra complexity. That is why I tried to write a ...

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Say you have a nice blueprint for rails. You put it in 50 locations already and want to add some lights now. Why do it manually if you could change it in blueprint and see it instantly applied as ghosts everywhere. Same with upgrades, dismantling and redesign. There should be a mode to ...

I can work around lack of this GUI, but it's just weird. Take a look at any "Civilisation" game. They don't have basic multiplayer features like faction as scenarios. Nor they expect player to create scenario to play with the friend. Things I'm talking about are basic multiplayer settings.

We have ...

Right now it seems factorio is designed to play 2 types of games.

Single player, wich is awesome for the first several times, but later - became tediouse, unless you are chasing some wierd goals like huge for the sake of huge, or building x86 because you can.
Cooperative multiplayer, highly ...

This variability is the special kind of perfectionist hell. Not everywhere, but In factorio where you can have borderless fields of perfectly synchronous machines this is just painful.

With all do respect, guys, you make probably the best game for decades, but you are not writers. Campaign should contain story, it's shouldn't be only about "how to teach someone play factorio" or "how to force player to solve some challenges" It should contain all of this, but it should be more ...

This expanding base from FFF is nice, but first step is not red/green if we are talking about new players. Not even close. Right now it seems people who design campain played for way too long. Yes every veteran could and would hancraft to automation tech, because it's doable and fast, but it's not ...

I mean, you guys already solved the problem one time in old campaign. Let the player build small base, then expand the map to the bigger objectives, and let him keep the old base as suplimentary. Just like in real game.

If campaign is partly tutorial - player have to rebuild bases, because first ...

It's interesting, that's quite a lot of people with 1 post only accounts in this friday facts thread. Not sure it's only this time, or it's always happen with FF.

It's frequent. Not for all FFFs, but it's almost systematic on significant changes.

Funny that simple color change became ...

It's interesting, that's quite a lot of people with 1 post only accounts in this friday facts thread. Not sure it's only this time, or it's always happen with FF. But if your changes force significant part of silent readers (like me) to answer - it should probably draw attention.

This theme is too ...

The rocket in "factorio" is not very streamlined. It seems planet have very low gravity, so you don't need staging. It also explains efficiency of the flying robots.

It's quite strange to say: "Oh, be patient, please, what's wrong with you?" right after "Hey, I'll show you this new version you waited for a year... soon"

Really, why people became so inpatient?

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The tricky bit is the electric pumps. At a bare minimum, you want them to conduct only in one direction (basically, making them a diode). Unfortunately, this introduces non-linearity into your system: the Ohm's law doesn't work for diodes, and so you can't use a time-proven sparse linear ...

What about starting areas for multiplayer? It seems it'll be even harder to generate balanced start for 2 players.