Well, what's the trouble to calculate them? Everyone does it as I understand.
No better knowledge than that you got all by yourself. That's why we play Factorio.
And there is even "Factory Planner" mod to help you by the way.

I mean really
Nothing seems to be updated
Even no critical fixes like nerfing that stupidly overpowered biters
So is it time to make third-party fixes and improvements now?

I mean really.
Small biter has 100 health (compared to vanilla 15). That is more than 2 magazines of our first bullets - (100 health + some regen) divided by (5 damage * 10 bullets in magazine). That is 8+ iron plates. Just for ONE small biter.
With this, you have two options:
a) Silly one, when you ...

Long story short, I cannot force myself to play the game for a 2 or 3 years now, despite I want to play, and I did not realized what is exactly wrong with me, my life, the game or something else
But recently I've got it.
Soundtrack is just terrible. This music is NOT pleasant by any means. It makes ...

I'll repeat...
It started earlier today, with no updates in between - nor for game, nor for mods.
I'm not that stupid to post bug report when it is obviously a problem with mod.
This problem is game problem, not some mod.

Searched through forum, found something similar but related to some "desyncs" (whatever they are), whereas I can't even start the game.
The game started earlier today, and suddenly it won't start now, despite that there were NO updates.
Sounds too "classic", but I really didn't touch anything, and ...

Ghost placing is suddenly not enough?

Oh yeah, I approve. This game definitely needs more flexibility, because as for now Factorio can offer only one way to do something. One most efficient way, I mean. Seriously. Play this game for about 100 hours and you will see that I am right.
Gameplay is lacking decisions, and choosing of SCALE of ...

Nova, are you member of development team?
When it comes to the ideas and suggestions board, we are all technically part of the dev team. Because the devs don't have time to read every suggestion, it's down to us, the members, to filter through all of the ideas and highlight only the best ones that ...

I believe (in my crummy opinion) that the devs are using the base mod as, well... a base, it contains a good number of options, and a fair number of difficult optimizations needed unless you want to use the easy way out (but it contains the process to that instead)

and if either more complexity ...

I don't like this idea and I don't think this should have priority. We need more different kinds of energy production before changing the already existing things. Oil boilers would be nice.

We will see if this gets added in 0.12. Personally I would prefer the update for the smart logistic network ...

Relatively simple additions here.
If boilers will produce vapor, it will be possible to make vapors of different temperature and pressure, and consequently different steam engines for different vapor parameters. In reality, vapor with higher temperature and pressure generally allows more efficient ...

That robots, if implemented, must be really large and heavy, and must require some landing site as well.
Just take a look at basic accumulator - how much it stores, how mush space takes and what is it's costs.
Then multiply cost by 10 and divide charge by 10 - you will get parameters of that mobile ...

Machines that do not require electricity would be actually a step back to the XIX-th century, then factories were being powered by one or two powerful steam engines and machines were powered be them via complex schemes of kinematic transmissions with lots of pulleys, gears and so on.
Electricity ...

@Nova
Who the heck are you to make conclusions? Who even asked you?
If you like an idea - support it. If you have some addition notes - say them. If you do not like - just pass by to the next topic, alright?

Idea of aquatic aliens is so freaking great!
They just must be in game, as well as flying and underground aliens.
Now we just build some walls and turrets and we are golden, but...
Player must NEVER fill safe!

I support this idea

Dude, the game action takes place on the ALIEN PLANET!
What the hecking taxes? Licenses? What are you talking about, man?
Player seems to be trying to survive in hostile environment, alone, with just machines being able to help him
Maybe you wanna also some stock exchanges, securities and currencies ...

I think there are two types of Factorio players - those who afraid of complexity and ready to complain and whine on it anytime, and those who want as much complexity and realism as possible.
If we will show the developers that there are not so few people that want more complexity, than they will ...

Yeah, yeah, at my opinion the game is not complicated enough, so gimme more complication =)
Instant construction of assembling machines and other buildings if easy and fun, but it has no relation to reality
In reality we need to construct a base on which everything stands, then some bearing walls ...