posila wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:09 pm Why offshore pump, why not landfill?

I think if you did either Landfill, or Offshore Pump, it would be a valuable addition to the game. Yes, there will be people who disagree with the choice, whatever it is, but right now there is nothing.

So... now that we've had these optimizations, what is now the slowest part of the Factorio tick?

I love the idea, but I don't know if it belongs in the base game. It diverts player focus from the factory, which is the main point of Factorio. I would love to see this in a scenario of some sort.

Would you use more steel furnaces if they got the same speed bonus? The +20% from solid fuel is nice, and rocket fuel towards the endgame is a big boost. It'd definitely promote coal cracking to get the faster furnaces, however even the +150% boost from nuclear fuel would struggle to compete ...

+1

Maybe also include the average amount produced as well (if you have productivity modules)

Yes, this would be amazing. +1. I would use this for nuclear reactor expansion, where I need lots of materials if I want to add a new pair of reactors + turbines.

TL;DR

When I press "Q", an Offshore Pump is automatically selected from my inventory, like how pressing "Q" over an ore patch auto-selects mining drills from my inventory.

Why ?

It would make placing of Offshore Pumps take less user effort.

I second this, with the additional suggestion that belts only fast-replace undergrounds and splitters if they are being replaced in the same orientation.

I like the idea of waypoints for player/car/tank movement. Automate your movement to a location so you, the gamer, can do something else (like scribble new designs on your notepad).

RTSes would use Ctrl-click or Shift-click to set movement waypoints, but maybe Factorio's WASD makes that impractical.

No way this belongs in the vanilla game. Getting hit by trains repeatedly encourages you to build solutions so you can cross tracks safely.

My understanding is that they have tweaked the limit, so it now also takes into account recipe completion time. That way a requestor with a fast recipe and speed modules/beacons will grab more items before the limit kicks in. That should prevent the assembler stalling whilst inserters are swinging ...

Rseding91 wrote:Thanks for the report however that's working fully as intended. The inserters will not add more ingredients when the output slot has >= 2x the results of the recipe.

Thanks for the quick turnaround. Is this behavior likely to stay the way it is?

I've attached a save which explains the issue, and how it's impacting gameplay. For this example, my machines are crafting Science Pack 2.

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The buffer for Science Pack 2 in an Assembling Machine is 12. See the assembling machine on the far right.

I noticed that if the ...

Does this also apply to chemical plants? Oil refineries? It cannot apply to centrifuges because Kovarex Enrichment + productivity is OP.

Mining drill productivity was a clean feature, there was no ambiguity about what buildings it applied to, and it solved the endgame problem of having to spend so ...

I like the idea of the player being a signal. It would be useful for train routes where you want to do something extra if the player is onboard.

It sounds like the problem you're trying to solve could be done by letting a player turn off a chest's ability to provide items to bots. I don't believe this is a feature at the moment -- chests can only act as signals to a circuit network.

I like the concept of being able to control whether a ...

Rocket-furnaces, ROCKET-FURNACES! :!:

oooo that's a good idea! Stone and Steel furnace speed bonuses depending on the fuel type!

I'd love to see a late-game setup which is entirely steel-furnace based, powered by rocket fuel. If rocket fuel increases smelting speed by 100%, that puts them on par ...

Rocket-fueled burner inserters sounds amazing. +1

On top of that, I'd also support a mining speed bonus for burner mining drills with solid/rocket fuel

eradicator wrote:Sounds like https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Klonan/MIRV (haven't tested that myself yet).

Oh man that looks fantastic. I think it fits in the overall game much better than the ion cannon.

I'd like to see the list of available stations cut down to just the ones the locomotive can actually pathfind to.