Nice Links, which I had read already when they came out, and which do not answer the question what to do with the surplus (exept maybe play on expensive)

Is it just me or are ore requirements for sience heavily weighted for iron?
red: 2:1
green: 5.5:1.5
grey: 14:5
blue: 24:15
violett: 157.5:57.5
yellow: 33.3 :49.8 (finally one that uses more copper)
white: 44:101.8 (Ok, this uses sinificantly more copper)
total:280.3:231.6
In total (averaged over all ...

It is kind of strange though, that pipes are used to transfer acid, but are not resistant to it. From my point of view pipes propably should get acid imunity (although that could be used creatively to build walls out of them, but biters don't attack with acid, do they?)
And yes, I know that acid ...

Not That I would not like that feature, but It is not really neccessary.
Just set the minimum level of anything you might need to any value above 0. When the roboport wants to build something the robots take it and it will be replaced.
Thus not really that important in my opinion.
Stm

Now I tried personal laser defense and it seems to be overpowered end game weapon. In my opinion it is too easy and boring no-brainer solution. You just make once defense equipment and after that they work forever without costs. I would like that overpowered end game weapons would need complex ...

In my opinion combat robots should be auto deployable via the roboport network. In that case they would become an addition to turrets which could defend against unexpected angles. They would move around like construction bots and distribute themselves over the network, and when there are biters in ...

Definitely agree about the braking in particular. Another problem is that late game the tank is too flimsy to be usable, it seems fine until you stop for one second and acid from one of the larger worms or from behemoth spitters hits it, and the tank just pops almost instantly from full health ...

The only place I'm going to disagree is with regards to feasibility from a computational standpoint. Properly implemented (which is non-trivial, but should be reasonable) it'd absolutely be computationally cheap. Setting up the initially pathfinding algorithms is cheap to do. It'd be wholey ...

On top of this they have the same downside as solar panels (no sunlight, no power) so in the end the only thing we would get is a solar panel you need to hook up with pipes :3

That actually is not true, since you can store steam a lot better (and more efficient) than electricity.
You also have ...

Optimizing drones to use pathfinding without substantial UPS impact is non-trivial, but absolutely possible. Cached pathfinding options should eliminate the cost-per-drone allowing drones to be active in the same vast numbers as they are today. They only need to look up the next node in their path ...

In my experience at night you can't see anything except what is right in front of you so you have to put lamps all other your factory.
Do you have default brightness settings?

I don't think I changed anything there.
But what do you want to see?
Most entities are still discernable and your ...

While I agree with the assessment, the pathfinding of buts should be improved a bit before 1.0, I disagree with the proposed algorithms which are in fact neither optimal nor computaionally cheap. Taking the beeline is a very cheap O(1) calculation, independent of anything.
Even just trying to move ...

Comparing the speed of barrrel emptiing to the real world is a bit missleading, since the usecases are a bit different.
Emptiing a barrel can be done a lot faster if you do not have to use a small diameter pipe. Just remove the lid and turn the barrel around. This is a lot faster than 60s for a ...

I have never even build gogles. What are they good for anyway?
You can Build just as well at night without them.
Your weapons work just as well without them (even targeting)
You move just as well without them
They take up space
You see bites on the minimap just as well
Judging from the screenshots ...

In my opinion it is a good idea to remove the pikeaxes. They do not fit very well to everything else in the game from my perspective.
Your first axe you build once and use it up, after that you go to steel and forget you ever had it (only rarely comming back to remembering after mining so many ...

Without reading all the post available here, I must say that I disagree with the idea to remove fuel efficiency in Boilers etc.
One reason is the already mentioned balance between furnaces. The fact that electric furnaces effectively use double the fuel pre modules is a nice balancing feature in my ...

Nice Idea to add shallow Water as an new crossable Tileset.
This also enables other Things:
Allow us to change normal terain into shallow water (if adjacent to water or shallow water) creating some landfill (would fit with the suggestion to add a two step process of landfilling).
Than also allow ...

Basic oil:
- Oil refining
- Heavy oil => light oil
- Light oil => solid fuel
- Petroleum => solid fuel

Then Coal Cracking:
- Coal + heavy oil => coal cracking output

Then Advanced oil
- Superior oil refining
- Light oil => petroleum


From My Point of view Coal Liquification should loose the ...

I have to agree with the OP here.
The resource generation function is a PITA in 0.16.
I like to playwith large water areas and low frequency of the patches (small but high yield). I had to generate quite a lot of maps until I found some which looked like it might be playable in the preview (Though I ...

Concerning the comparision of throughput there are at least one, I would say two mistakes which were made.
Comparing a Belt bus of width 4 with a complete line of roboports is not really the whole picture. This is due two two effects:
1. You neglect the neccessary Energy production (which is true ...