To sum it up, ammo turrets are not used due to the ease to get to flamers, lasers are not used because flamers alone are enough. And it's even easier in default bugs settings. So why have mechanics that are useless? Multiplayer DW marathon is not necessarilly strictly harder than everything else, a...

I'm not sure, flame turrets may explode landmines and create additional damage, so perhaps a nice combo (though expensive) defense there. I think it's an anti combo, for the most part, flamers will destroy mines that weren't necessary to explode. On the same note, flamer will damage and eventually ...

Instead of placing a ghost entity (which will be placed by bots) a new “planning-entity” (no better name yet). I wished I had this feature several times. I got no clue about how to integrate it well in the GUI and I think it might be a challenge. Now it wouldn't solve all the problem related to max...

the logistical challenge of adding a wall with any turret is exactly the same as adding a wall with laser turret Not really - adding a wall with flamethrowers involves piping, and adding a wall with gun turrets involves producing ammo, and porting it in, which is not a minor task. Try building a la...

Back on topic, I am slowly starting to prepare a default setting speedrun, and I am contemplating the idea of using barrel fed flamethrowers for outpost defense (with the idea of feeding them only once), similar to Blaze's use of them in deathworld.

OK, you must have a very different experiance of defence to me. Yes, my experience is with default settings and railworld spedrunning, and with ultra death world slow running. But I think our views differ for more than that. You think biters should still be a pain to deal with late game, I don't. F...

Okay but that doesn't help when some players put down large blue belt blueprints on a server before you can even make blue belts. Well there is a problem with those players then. A lot of public server gat blueprint privilege for that very reason. Making a category for blue belts does not make sens...

This would give specific roles to all the turrets: They already have specific roles as per my previous post (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=530099#p530099). I like this because it seems to follow a principle I really like in Factorio: quality comes with logistical difficulty - the hard...

Building a factory takes time. Building a bigger factory takes more time. Humans have a limited lifetime. Therefore, if the machine and the game are sufficiently powerfull that during a human lifetime, one cannot build a factory big enough to hit the hardware limits, there is enough optimization. T...

Does mines have any significant effect to behemoth biters? Biters have an explosion resistance of 12/10% That means that most of the 250 damage of the landmine will go through ( 214 to be exact ). Which means they don't suffer huge drop in efficiency like yellow and red ammo do. It does take 15 un-...

Another option to save you future headache is to store your design as a actual factories rather than ghost. Use the /editor command to make copy pasting actual factories as convenient as copying ghost in normal circumstances.

Biters never intentionally target pipes and poles, and should almost never attack rail tracks. They only target poulluters from a far and player and military building on sight. The only time they attack other things is when they are close to target and when their path is blocked. Among other things,...

Filter inserters can be used with clocks for UPS efficient design (deactivated filter inserters are dormant). energy per item isn't the only metric to optimize against. In addtion to other ewamples already given, burner inserter can be used to feed gun turrets that aren't expected to fire often or e...

Hi, I recently finished "There's no spoon" achievement, [...] So I found some balancing that can be addressed since they clearly "break" the progression curve ! The game is not supposed to be balanced around speerunning though. The progressiong curve is broken because you skippe...

IMO, the defenses are not meant to be balanced solely by their economy, let alone by the metric chosen. Weapons in general sohuld not necessarilly be equal, a pistol should not be made as strong as an SMG for the sake of balancing everything. Turrets in general however are very well balanced IMO: Gu...

A very eloquent presentation of an elaborate solution to a non existent problem. I could have understood if your post was written a couple years earlier, when bots used to suck, but most of your points seem moot today. Yes, "the game in which turret creep isn't the meta is the game in which th...

Yes... Uranium is pretty infinite Energy Source... So is solar, I don't think anyone is complaining. Much like IRL, the cost of Nuclear energy in factorio isn't the fuel cell, it is the technology, the centrifuge the reactor, and the overall complexity of the build. And much like IRL the cost of Nu...

I did think about it, barrels are fun, but IRL for long distances pipelines require less logistics. Just have a pipe, pumps every certain distance, and monitor for pressure drops. But in game? pipelines are still a bit confusing. I do put pumps in them at random, never really got a good feel of &qu...

Reproduction step: Place a burner inserter in front of a mining drill (any). What happens: The mining drill is always shown as "working" (by the green yellow red indicator thingy) even when it is not (inserter full, inserter already containing something else than coal or drill mining somet...

Btw, what does your production curve look like? It would be a reasonable representational summary of your solution. It looks like an exponential. Solutions of these kinds of equations are linear combination of exponential (or polynomials times exponential in rare cases), and they mostly look like t...