I'm not 100% for the changes, but I like the direction. The previous design had one major issue for me, which is that between researching BOP and researching AOP, there's no effective way to deal with an oil deadlock. This is because: 1. Cracking isn't possible yet. 2. The ratios are such that you c...

The steam numbers are just anecdotal. The high level point is that most people never get to the point where bots vs belts really matters (i.e. they don't build megabases).

The biggest thing about belts that make them worse than bots is that they don't scale (primarily with research), as the latest FFF mentions, all of the options have difficult technical issues. Bots have multiple current and potential ways to scale: 1. Cargo size (currently this isn't infinite, but t...

Last FFF, my issue was that game devs shouldn't try to tell their users how to have fun playing their games. Game devs should have a vision and should apologetically follow that vision. Instead of rolling that perspective back, it seems this FFF doubles down and adds something else. Last week, Rsedi...

My primary feedback on the post is that Twinsen (or the rest of the team) shouldn't state, outright, that belts are more fun than bots. They may result in more challenges, they may be more nuanced to use, they may be more ideal given a set of game design goals, but they can't be said to be more fun,...

Except that now it takes about 5x as much bots/belts to move the same amount of barrels as before, which means worse performance. That completely goes against what the devs have said before about want to increase game performance. This is a design decision. In my opinion a very good one. You can in...

For the modded blueprints bug, wouldn't this solution be better (this is a logical version, optimizations are ignored): 1. Add an optional vector to hold the serialized version of a blueprint to a blueprint's in memory representation. 2. On blueprint load, the serialized content is stored to that lo...

I normally don't make useless comments on forums, but I'll make an exception here.

This is going in my list of software engineering stories that I tell people.

This mod is way too imbalanced and mainly for one reason, it bypasses research. Can you please add this as an option? In my opinion, the entire point of a black market is the ability to get access to things you shouldn't otherwise have access to. Of course, it could be an option, but you could just...

There's some issues with localization and unknown keys. The following needs to be added to the en.cfg (I assume it's the same for Russian). [technology-name] black-market-mk=Black Market Upgrades [technology-description] black-market-mk=Upgrades the size of Black Market chests, tanks and accumulator...