edit: [my idea for the hardening of crushers within the orbit of the shattered planet was meant as an extreme example of how "progress-gating" something, by the very virtue in the difficulty of obtaining it makes something NOT unbalanced. That in the 2.0 reprocessing method, it was both the ...

With the crusher module restrictions introduced in 2.1 that have (against their intentions) trivialized quality instead of finding "balance", Here is my final argument for a means to "balance" space casinos in a way that undoes the triviality of "just put a recycler down, accept the 75% loss and ...

"Quality research, on the other hand, is a dangerous research. If you are a new player, you will ruin your production lines and make a huge mess. I"

No you won't. researching quality (even upto legendary) has NO impact what-so-ever on ANY "in place" designs UNLESS (until) you insert quality modules ...

Space Age issues:

1) appears to delete stone ore from Gleba (patch controls missing from world generation screen), likely from whatever prototype just deleted all the ore controls from the map settings screen prior to implementing angel's own ore controls. Reconsider the implementation of this to ...

at some point in the update cycle for factorio 2.0, the map setting slider for fulgora island coverage lost ...i'd say, 90% of it's previous "impact" over world generation. Now resulting in very little impact / change sliding from 17% coverage all the way upto 600% coverage.
There's not "no change ...

Trying to build a mod that modifies the effects of modules to build a late game technology sink for improving the aspects of various standard or modded modules. Doesn't appear the API has module effects as a valid modifier type.

It may have already been mentioned, but the crux of the issues as I've heard/read about/inferred boils down to "when I'm presented the decision of which planet to visit, which one has the most compelling rewards I can use right away? vs "which planets rewards aren't as useful RIGHT NOW but are still ...

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 ...

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-health and ...

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 robot survivability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mandate ...

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 wagons as cargo when ...

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)"