Another thought i had on the PLD issue: Yeah, currently, it's TRIVIAL to throw a bunch of PLDs in a power suit and ROLL through biter territory. With quality making things even better, it becomes even MORE trivial, so overall, I think some adjustments need to be made. One solution could be making bi...

Not sure if evolution factor determining spawner health is the best solution. I think i'd perhaps be a better method to derive health of the spawners SOLELY from the number of spawners DESTROYED. This would mean, even if you "start late" in destroying spawners, they won't all be at max-hea...

Question about robot movement logic and the "faking it" approach with regards to combat / biter attacks. The technical aspect of "faking smooth movement" can have a big performance improvement, and that's always great, but will this have unintended consequences with regard to rob...

Research Target: Quality. Have quality of recipes be able to be improved using research: +(1-3% bonus to quality) per research level 1) Quality mechanics still require that quality modules be placed in the machine doing the crafitng. If you research 4 levels of Quality but have no quality modules in...

Can we get more info/details on item productivity research? Or is this something being kept underwraps until release date? ----a sort of: "hey, there will be items that you can research productivity on, but we're not gonna say what, and you'll just have to wait and see."?

suggestion for repair packs: While repair packs essentially lasting longer is cool... i think it's more useful if repair packs would repair damage at a quicker speed. Think legendary repair packs can be used by robots at perimeter defense to repair walls more quickly, reducing the time robots are ou...

Some ideas for Quality: Underground pipes/belts: have longer range Locomotives: more pulling power / acceleration / or max speed Fuel: more accelerating power / higher energy density / increase to vehicle speed / reduced pollution Rail: higher top speed for locomotives Robots: faster "return to...

Is there support/potential for underground belts/pipe reach-distance to be improved by quality, or has it already been firmly-decided to keep these entities' quality improvement solely health-based? (sorry if this has already been answered.)

Yes, that WOULD be nice, if everyone that made mods practiced best methods, but sometimes a mod comes along and it DOESN'T. This shouldn't be an issue, however, if the logic were changed slightly, such that, if a technology has a prerequisite named, that no longer exists, rather than marking it as &...

After the oil update, some mods broke, but i realized, this could be resolved with a base-game update. Technology prerequisites, if removed, renamed, or altered in data-updates or data-final-fixes causes some technologies to be unreachable. This can be fixed by having "prerequisite" logic ...

Overall, the changes were poorly conceived, executed, and do not "solve" the problem they attempt to address, but instead, created the very "rage quit" scenario the changes THOUGHT they'd prevent.



....Good job.

So I have a mixed train: fluid wagons near the engine/front, and cargo wagons in the caboose. Single transport to Uranium outpost. Obviously empties sulfuric acid at outpost for mining, and fills cargo wagons with uranium. Wondering why "cargo empty"/"Cargo full" treats fluid wag...

screenshot: https://ibb.co/rZKS8Wm

last few releases, i've been unable to connect to mod portal API / game won't correctly scan for mod updates.
hovering over text, "Unable to check for updates" reveals " api call failed: (path: 'api/mods', status: 414)"

Version 16 of factorio had this, but it was removed when 17 came out. Instead replaced with "trending", which, while that's cool and all, that lacks the functionality of seeing what the most recent released/updated mods are. The version number is mostly irrelvant as it's arbitrary what mod...

selling large amounts of u-coin results in uCoin becoming valued at 0u. whereas mod description /documentation lists it as always being 1u.
(3rd-party mod edit to add recipe to sell item for ucoin) dunno if that's important

any update on if this mod, does require any modification to run or no? does it have to be unzipped? or is something else causing it? edit 1: unzipping did enable it to load in vanilla, but crashes with angelspetrochem: "Failed to load mods: Error while running setup for technology prototype &qu...

Wave Defense games and RTS-style games benefit more from diverging technology trees / CHOICES for upgrade path more than they benefit from variability in map generation. While having procedurally generated maps can be good for replayability, the map generating method is a minor thing, and a well-mad...

How do i check if a graphic file with a given name exists inside a mod or directory in lua for factorio? and if it doesn't, use a different graphics file instead? something like if "__modname__/graphics/technology/techname.png" exists then tech.icon="__modname__/graphics/technology/te...

Odd sort of behaviour when paired with Factorio World (and other mods, but assuming factorio world x NiceFill is cause) tiles have a frequent chance of not changing to landfill, and if you run along while landfilling, it can sometimes result in player death. edit: just saw post by reika, appears to ...

i disagree. for NEW players, having the tech window pop up after a completed technology *is* useful for some people. for *some* people. But for the majority of players, i do believe, most of us disable this quite early as it gets a bit annoying.