Search found 92 matches
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:54 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: What are the most impractical items in Factorio?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 38510
Re: What are the most impractical items in Factorio?
Most of those things that you listed are awsome... artillery is amazing for offense and scouting if you use manuel targeting. The tank is just awsome. the cannon shells murder bases and the explosive type murders groups. The shotgun is the best early seige weapon because of its massive damage on bas...
- Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Why don't forests regenerate over time.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5306
Why don't forests regenerate over time.
Let's be honest theres 2 enemy's in factorio. The Bitters and those absolutely vile trees. Bitter bases can regenerate and expand. While forests really only get cute down and never are seen again once cleared away. I feel like it would be cool to have forests regenerate and trees spawn back in(slowl...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:33 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: 4 years worth of stupid!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5159
Re: 4 years worth of stupid!
dont worry it took me just as long to figure out where the reference "there is no spoon" came from . I spent the last 4 years thinking the devs had gone mad and named it jiberish
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:29 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Bots versus Belts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14142
Re: Bots versus Belts
But to say that balancers don't matter.. If you are doing hardcore UPS optimization, you never build balancers. You can even put trains on a timer so they leave without being balanced. Sadly splitters are extremely ups heavy and making balancers requires splitters. However you could have a hybrid s...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:08 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: I want to play factorio but I lack a goal
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16998
Re: I want to play factorio but I lack a goal
The philosophy of this question goes far beyond the scope of this forum. I play the game to challenge myself and for the love of trains, your mileage may vary. Maybe try different styles of play? Role-playing may help. Put yourself in the mindset that your a solo colonist whos striping the planet of...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:08 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Bots versus Belts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14142
Re: Bots versus Belts
Nuclear power is a hell of a thing lol I have a 4.8gw blueprint that takes up a fair chunk of space. But its super tiny compared to the amount of solar that I would need to replace it Are you telling us that you literally cannot find the space to place a solar plant? :P I wouldn't be shocked if it ...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:54 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Bots versus Belts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14142
Re: Bots versus Belts
Nuclear power is a hell of a thing lol I have a 4.8gw blueprint that takes up a fair chunk of space. But its super tiny compared to the amount of solar that I would need to replace it
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:30 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Bots versus Belts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14142
Re: Bots versus Belts
The problem late game with belts is that for massive throughput you need massive belt lanes. And then most often you need to figure out how to balance those massive lanes. Where as bots can inherently self balance if setup correctly and have almost unlimited throughput by just adding more bots and u...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: [POLL] Left- or Right- hand rails and roads?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9586
Re: [POLL] Left- or Right- hand rails and roads?
I do left side trains because I like having the signals on the inside of the rails...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Rant about universal strategies (main busses)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15532
Re: Rant about universal strategies (main busses)
Hmm, I think the term Main bus is thrown around way to much. But really a bus system is just a centralized set of materials that are easily accessible. My favorite style to play is having mini factorys all interconnected by rail and each factory is in itself a mini bus. Even in a city block build yo...
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:02 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle tips and tricks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2824
Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle tips and tricks
Hey guys, Sense 1.0 came out alot of people are starting a fresh save or playing for the first time. What tips and tricks do you use? Do you just put unwanted items in a small box in the corner of your base? Or do you reuse them. Also what is some of the stuff you wish you could recycle?
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:23 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: First thought after loading a neglected save game...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2189
Re: First thought after loading a neglected save game...
Everytime I open a save I had sheveled I think the same thing.
Was I drinking when I did this factory? Why is that train line there? Who in the hell setup that oil system. Etc etc
I'd like to think I've just gotten better at the game with each save i start and and each new playstyle I chose lol.
Was I drinking when I did this factory? Why is that train line there? Who in the hell setup that oil system. Etc etc
I'd like to think I've just gotten better at the game with each save i start and and each new playstyle I chose lol.
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:15 am
- Forum: Medium/Big/Gigantic Sized Structures
- Topic: My Uranium Porocess
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3707
Re: My Uranium Porocess
1. Atomic bombs are great.
2. Atomic energy is great.
3. Atomic ammo is great.
And I bet this keeps any amount of the above supplied nicely
2. Atomic energy is great.
3. Atomic ammo is great.
And I bet this keeps any amount of the above supplied nicely
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:55 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Lategame mining options are lacking
- Replies: 129
- Views: 44732
Re: Lategame mining options are lacking
The actual reason for the thread was, copy pasting the same mining drill BP is what you do all game so there's no change, and hence no progression. And in my mind there's no progression because you only have 1 kind of mining drill. By adding more like the bucket wheel mod does you have to think more...
- Thu Aug 15, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7931
Re: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
Sadly, D/T fusion is the only kind they are willing to try because hydrogen does bad things in are atmosphere...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7931
Re: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
Fusion reactors can't for physical reasons ever be net-positive at human-size scale. I'm sure your wisdom would be most useful to the people who inject nowadays billions into research and developpment for small scale fusion power generators :mrgreen: . I am pretty sure, the people taking that billi...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:20 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Can you heat water anymore?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4073
Can you heat water anymore?
I know this sounds odd but is there any way to heat water from ambiant(15Β°C)? The reason I would like to know is because I'm doing some testing of large scale Reactors(16+) and this would really boost efficiency and help in compacting size by giving me options for more compact stacks of heat exchang...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:57 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7931
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:39 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7931
Re: [0.17] Personal Defense TECH
Would love to see atleast the personal chaingun as a parallel to the personal defense lasers maybe even a prereq for it. The personal minlayer is interesting however you could just use the personal roboport for that. Anyhow I do believe powersuits need alittle updating like fusion reactors should be...
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:31 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: 3x3 reactor setups?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2035
Re: 3x3 reactor setups?
Well wouldn't a 3x3 be double the power of a 2x2?