Thanks for the posting! I shared it with many of my coworkers at my fintech company, and there was a strong show of gratitude for it. Always great to see the struggle towards progress rather than just the end result.

Would also like max trains on a station.

TL;DR Allow individual blueprint ghosts to be built with an empty hand click. What ? IIRC, there were some dev blog stating that it'd be cool to see blueprints be more useful in the early game. There are a couple of mods that attempt to do this by replicating the action of construction bots, such a...

"Watch out for that flock!"
"Watch out for that horde!"
"Watch out for that murder!"
"Watch out for that gaggle.. ??!"

The point is entertainment. If you have experienced so much of the game that you are starting to lose enjoyment, you've completed the game. Some hit that point at 2 hours. Some will at 2,000 hours (or more!).

The hope is that you got your moneys worth, nothing wrong with moving on.

I'd love some factorio swag for my desk at work, and I'd love to send my kids to school with some factorio swag as well.

Part of me wants to make a mod to help out. Say, PVP can only occur on a seperate surface, but that surface has some awesome benefit. Or make non-combat buildings immune to players, but there is a flag in each base you can capture for a reward (science packs?) Maybe implement a catch up feature of s...

Hey all, I'm planning to do some factorio this comung summer as a team building exercise. I'm somewhat considering player vs player, but not sure how it plays out typically. When do players typically find each other? Are you driving tanks, cars, or neither? Are turrets effective defense? Are land mi...

Different surfaces still have the same problem with threading as anything else The main thing I see, is that scripts can access any surface. So when an entity dies, a script could add/remove other things from other surfaces Thats true. Putting multi threaded programming concerns on mod devs would b...

The single-thread design is only one of the bottlenecks. RAM latency is another one, sometimes even the primary bottleneck . If you solve multithreading, you will still be stuck on RAM latency. The hope is that hardware will improve. Memory overclocking is becoming more widespread, and there are su...

It's a wonderfully complex problem but not an impossible one. I'm curious if it's possible to identify and define distinct blocks of area and put each area on its own thread. For example, train pathing probably doesn't need to be on the same thread as inserters deciding to take items. This is withi...

It was noted that modding will be the lifeblood of factorio after 1.0. Given that, and seeing the trend for cpus is more cores, we may have to rely on Mods for performance bumps. Clusterio gave us mutlithreading, but that involves seperate instaces of factorio running. Itd be really cool if surfaces...

This was used to great effect when we had 1x1 boilers.

Armor is essntial for some death worlds

A seed is picked, and then operations are done in order for all computers. So, you'll get the same random number for each computer.

Not sure about the reactor, it is incased, kinda like one on a nuclear submarine (the inner reator room is three stories) larger subs get up to 500mw, so id say our reactors are large for the power they make. Perhaps because it is an entire room on the inside, like a submarine. If we wanted this, i ...

Simular to loaders, i think we want to avoid item bloat.

I thought that some of thd fluid dynamics was released, but i could be horribly wrong.

They took an icon meant for the inventory system for the research icon and havent creatrd a high res version yet. Game is still early access :p

Branches make it harder for the pathfinder too, since it had to check every branch.

Reducing branching (each of your junctions adds at least 3 branches the train could take), or adding waypoint stations can help.