"No Path" is not helpful with a long train path involving multiple intersections and a dozen signals. Pathfinders in general try to walk a graph from A to B (or the other way round) trying multiple paths. If they do not find a way from A to B, they only know, that there is no path - not why there i...

I played some Redmew multiplayer scenarios including one similar to that presented in the video. In that scenario, the world was a cave system of impenetrable rock filled with mineable rocks wich contained random amounts of all ores/coal/stone. There where no cave-ins but biters spawned randomly whe...

We can only hope they don't repeat the christmas chaos of last year just to get "a release for christmas". Let them do it properly. They always do things properly, so if they would (surprisingly) release at xmas 2018, they would certainly do it properly. I do not remeber any christmas chaos though ...

We were doing speculation in a discord group, and the general consensus was about 3 months, which boiled down to "Maybe we'll see 0.17 by Christmas." I expected 0.17 to get released xmas this year too. But they have a lot to test with the new campaign, editor, engine rewrite, GUI rewrite, balancing...

And there hasn't been given any clue on when the announcement of the date of the announcement was expected to be announced either. Here, have a painkiller for your headache :) Any indication on when you will not make any announcements about the date? Rumors are, that Wube will not anounce the final...

It is a solution for the Green oil problem, but I need to learn combinators for it to function properly (pic below). I never had a problem with lubricant. Just let the chem plant fill one tank with it. Also, crack heavy oil to light oil when heavy oil tanks are filling up and turn light oil to soli...

eradicator wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:02 pm

But i can also understand not wanting to break mods over spelling errors.

Spelling errors are the worst - they should be fixed as soon as they are detected regardless of whether the change breaks mods or not. That HTTP refer(r)er thing still confuses me every time...

Why not post a paragraph like that in FFF 267? Why not respond with such constructive information 10 or 15 pages earlier of this thread of sadness? Everyone should, by now, have come to the conclusion, that Wube is way better at making a really great game even better, than at communicating what exa...

Obviously, just snapping to angles is the easiest-to-implement of that requests (and VehicleSnap already implements it). But as i said, it's not implementing it "properly". Koub mentioned related requests, of wich i think, that they are not as easy to implement in vanilla, as vehicle snapping. I am...

Like #266, #267 only brings good news and even more polishing. Nice. So i only mention, that cliffs could (maybe, i got 1k hours in the game so i might be biased) be more intuitive if they where just extra-big mineable rocks taking a longer time to mine away. They could become ordinary rocks after m...

Koub wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:22 am

There are also quite a number of requests for either :
- mouse control over direction
- following automatically the roads/stone paths

Obviously, just snapping to angles is the easiest-to-implement of that requests (and VehicleSnap already implements it).

If bots are too difficult, try doing train-based logistics only. It is possible - just a lot of handplaced (well, 0.17 will fix that) wagons and a shit-ton inserters... I'm already using the trains to search for minerals and oil. The factory in question is too small to use trains. And I'm also find...

If bots are too difficult, try doing train-based logistics only. It is possible - just a lot of handplaced (well, 0.17 will fix that) wagons and a shit-ton inserters...

Locking vehicle orientation to multiples of 360°/n (with n configurable to the player's taste) would indeed be a nice QoL improvement in vanilla.

If you enjoy trains, or want them to go faster, or are having bottlenecks with trains, then better fuel may be the way you go. Going for solid fuel ASAP can reduce coal usage so much, that you do not have to search for new coal fields until late game while the first oil deposit often lasts a long t...

This is figuratively unplayable. Please regularize the tech levels of equipment and their coloration. You might have OCD. ;) the problem is, that for some, tiers should have the same colors - while for others, an all-the-same colored base looks boring (me too). Also, inserters, while having tiers (...

The player could start by powering things manually using a tool and automate it using a steam engine. There is a mod called Hand Crank , that adds a hand crank for generating small amounts of electrical energy. It might be possible to fork it for generators generating other energy types. I cannot r...

Removing the guns as items would also remove the ability to equip the same gun twice with different ammo. You would probably only equip the ammo if guns would be removed. Whether you switch between pairs of guns and ammo or just ammo does not really matter. But i hope, they will invest slightly mor...

Unfortunately, with the hope being that 0.17 will become 1.0, I doubt we'll get this before release and I have no clue what Wube's intentions are for long-term support of factorio post-release. I don't expect Wube to add much to the biters before or after release. For them, they are just a mechanic...

As soon as you can, switch to solid fuel and after that transition to rocket fuel. Both burn increasingly longer and support higher vehicle maximum speeds. For the base, you also have the option to go full solar or nuclear to drastically reduce polution output. But if the natives are no problem, jus...