Sometimes I catch myself thinking that I need even smaller area for poles, like 3x3, to power up just neighboring objects on a separate power grid. It becomes very important in case of power and logic switches.

ssilk wrote:Merged, cause equal topic

Thank you, but any thoughts?

Here is a great video clearly explaining how exactly the ropeway conveyor works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEb9jVoY9aY It's a ropeway line in the Czech Republic. It has about 7 km long. Ok, this requires hand work. In your mind how an automatic ropeway station should look like and work in Fac...

I know there are lot of suggestions of making belts and water pumps to demand electricity in order to work. And there are many discussions about pros and contras of that. I would like to share my minds with you. https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2064&p=15134 https://forum...

* Power drain from electric poles - complete Now I have a motor facility, connected to power grid. Next I will extend belts with a (ref counted) pointer field to that facility and each connected belt will increment its power drain. Whenever a belt lose its facility or that facility have power short...

That is a good idea, but now the amount of complications is starting to rise, and the question is, if we should put so much logic and intelligence into inserters, or should it be part of the game to overcome these problems. Inserters already know what items to put into assemblers, right? They know ...

kovarex wrote:

hitzu wrote:

He can't put it back.

Why not?

Maybe the chest was already filled by some other inserter? Or logistic robot.

What if make a reserved empty place for picked item which could be occupied only after an inserter release that item?

This https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=5552
And this https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=6272

He can't put it back.

Why not?

Cloner wrote:The underground train passage doesnt require the world to be unflat, same as underground belts and pipes.

I didn't argue with that.

Resource fields should get bigger as the distance to the starting area increases. This way you are still forced to get out and explore, but you don't get to that point where your resource usage is so big that the fields deplete faster than you can connect others. If you go really far out you should...

Well, it is one of the possibilities, as it would be only needed in 8 directions, and the train sprites could be moved into the ram-only memory. The other possibility would be to hide it completely. In my opinion the slopes eiter natural or artifitial would be out of strong Factorio design. The gam...

kovarex wrote:Who says it should be in one tile? The train to ground piece would certainly be several tiles long.

Do you really want to add new spreadsheet of train-on-slope sprites? ʘ̆_ʖಠ

This is awesome! Not only because it perfectly fit in the game style, but also because this device would occupy a niche between conweyors and trains. I think it should appear on early stages of the game, maybe even on pre-steel age.

My idea about this is: the placed entity have something I can drag. For belts, pipes, rails it could be the "end-part". The end-part for rails where introduced with 0.11. The pipes alread have end parts (difficult to see, when facing north). And the belts should become end parts, to see c...

@hitzu: You need to read mentioned threads. The reason is because of https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Railway_network/The_renaming-of-train-stop-trick If you name two trainstops with the same name, the train will normally find only one way to this train stop. This is because it sear...

Seeing that thread I'm just wondering why the train even search new route looking at red signal? Yes, it have to do this in the case of broken rails, but not in the case of red signalling cause lights turn red only when the route is occupied by another train, which is always a temporary state. So I ...

I got this idea when saw people complaining about their safety near busy rail network. http://cs624220.vk.me/v624220720/d986/9LgzR_Rv4Es.jpg Yes, unlike some sort of signalling this is radical solution :D The only problem is how to really make this train-proof in 2D flat game. How to force players o...

Bridges will be built more like rails or walls in that you'll have to place every individual piece of them, another limitation I can't get around without lots of trouble. Plus, I don't want to limit their length, if a player wants to spend a ton of resources to build a mile long bridge to get acros...

The bridges look great! The bumpers are small and unobtrusive but still a clear mark of where the bridge ends, I like them a lot. However, the walkable area of the bridge still isn't 64x64. The top of the bridge has to be 64x64 pixels, otherwise players would appear to be able to walk on water. It ...