I don't mind "throwing intellectual ressources to understand how to progress in a game", as i said for me it's part of the game to practice observation and deduction, it's fun :)

As I mentionned the edge cases for the "each" signals, your argument sound overly dramatic to me x), it doesn't need ...

It's easy to say "but everyone does it" and then just call it a day. Just because everything else is bad, doesn't mean one cannot improve and do it better.
It's not that easy. Do you know early software? DOS software? Command line tools without even --help parameter? For such software ...

I think one of the reasons for the lack of documentation is because there are SO MANY features. It would be a monumental effort to document everything. And also, things change, so maintaining the documentation would be quite an effort in itself.


Not talking about in depth explanations and ...

Extensive documentation/manuals in-game is an exception, not a norm. Factorio could have ZERO documentation, and you would have to google everything, like in another ten thousand games. Zero documentation is a STANDARD. So, stop ranting and search google for whatever you are missing. Not to ...

The important information (for example which chest does what and how stuff works) does not need to be googled. The (official!?) factorio wiki has it.


Again, that requires knowing about the Wiki or finding it and more importantly having access to it.
Factorio can be played offline (thankfully ...

Circuit conditions involving quality make no sense whatsoever.

Have a decider combinator that has a condition of "Each Red Wire >= Each Green Wire" and send it a signal of "Steel (Uncommon)" with the value of 2 on the red wire and a Signal of Steel 10 on the green wire and watch the condition be ...

This is going to be a bit of a rant...

We have all these great things in the game, in fact you even added an entire god damn Factoriopedia into the game.
There is an entire basically full screen tips and tricks window, and yet except for the utter basics of things (which were already present in 1.1 ...

I have a space ship that is waiting for 200 rocket fuel, which have been requested from 2 separate rocket silos on the planet below.
The bots loaded each silo with a full rocket worth of rocket fuel, however the rockets would not launch because the space ship only had like 4 inventory slots open ...

Yes there are lots of configurable parameters here, but they don't have to be exposed to the user. Just do something sensible. Virtually any choice for these parameters would be better than the current implementation.


You might not *have to* expose them to the user, but you could. If you don't ...

The vanilla game simply lacks the ability to do that.
- Mixed rockets never auto launch, even if the rocket contains all the items that are needed on the platform.
- You cannot tell a rocket to launch with circuits
- You cannot communicate between orbit and planet. The planet can only read what ...

+1
Please make it an option, or limit it to super force.

The 0.2 times per hour I want to enter a formula I can stomach putting in a leading "=" or something. The 20 times per hour I am irritated because the UI doesn't act consistently I can't.
Point being: If theres a (conceptually) number field typing text can and should be the option that is ...

There's also "The property where the expression is used may provide variables.", but I don't think that applies in-game as a player, it seems to be only when defining prototypes as a modder. Let me know if wrong.



You can have a blueprint parameter define a variable "e" and then use it in ...

You're supposed to automate that with the circuit network.


If only you could, but the vanilla game simply lacks the ability to do that.
- Mixed rockets never auto launch, even if the rocket contains all the items that are needed on the platform.
- You cannot tell a rocket to launch with ...

I was trying some fancy blueprinting with formulas, and maybe I just don't really understand how they are supposed to work / be used yet. However it appears as to be able to use formulas you have to have a unique number somewhere that you can give a variable name.
Then you have to have another ...

The 2.0 change of making dialogs NOT close when you hit E while in a text field is probably the single most frustrating change the game has seen.
Basically every single time I want to make a logistic request, or change a value in a combinator I hit E, wonder why the dialog does not close, click the ...

Trees don't actually get damaged (as far as 'damaged' is concerned for events or health points) when burning. They merely progress through the progress variable and then (based on an internal random chance I guess) either remain as completely burnt tree with progress 3, or are deleted from the game ...

There are two connected issues here when editing an existing blueprint via the "select new contents" button.

1) After the selection is done the blueprint is already updated and has already been saved, despite the UI suggesting the changes need to be saved and there being a close button in the top ...

When using the "Select new entities" button for an existing blueprint, mods do not appear to have a chance to adjust the blueprint data on save.

in on_player_setup_blueprint the blueprint is not setup, nor valid for read. However the same is true for on_player_configured_blueprint and the player ...

I then realised that we could have invisible creatures, for example small non-hostile alien birds in the trees

Is it just me, or does that mean a lot more entities, which needs to be calculated and drag UPS down?

As for the ambient noise sound, I trust they can be controlled/disabled separately ...