On the space platform hub, I have a big request (4k rails from vulcanus in that case). The rockets are actively bringing the items in. When I hover over the request, the item already present in the hub are highlighted in yellow. If I leave the mouse on the request, new stacks arrive of the same ...

What I really wanted to know from that image, though, is what are the turrets shooting at . :twisted:


Looks like they're shooting at the asteroids to break them down. Which would make military tech part of production, which is *really* interesting for people like me that are not interested in ...

Is there an equivalent of Early Access for the dlc? It's cool for the players, of course, but for the main game it also contributed to the impressive final quality.

Ok, tell me if I'm missing something, but from what I see, the most basic tech card needs wood, and wood production can't be automated until after blue science, some couple of thousands tech cards later? Not only mass-cutting wood is boring, but when starting in a desert biome you walk for ...

Ok, tell me if I'm missing something, but from what I see, the most basic tech card needs wood, and wood production can't be automated until after blue science, some couple of thousands tech cards later? Not only mass-cutting wood is boring, but when starting in a desert biome you walk for ...

Today's update (0.18.2) broke all/most of the mods with a missing sound file issue.

OG.

So, dont play with the mods you dont like. Just because you dont like some of my decisions and think its "retarded", you can just disable it and play the ones you consider "ok".

Im kinda tired of people thinking me, nexela or kingarthur have to obey their orders or hear that our work is ...

There did seem to be an issue (at least in 0.16), with the first smelting ratio improvements being hard to get, then the second ones coming too fast after that...

I'm not really sure what's the issue with the circuit recipe - I've gotten almost to science 2 (pretty much only the aluminum left to ...

disable RawOres.


Since pY kinda breaks down if you don't have either RawOres or bob's equivalent, and I was aiming for the pure, as-designed pY experience, this is kind of sad.

Does it mean that the rawores-induced slowness is by design, and if yes I'd love to know the reasoning behind it, or ...

|The first electric furnace is the same crafting speed as a stone furnace? What's the point then?| that is from vanilla and the point is to be able to use modules and get rid of the fuel belt

why so slow ? because of sheer complexity
regarding the mall you need science 2 for logistics and then ...

I enjoy the puzzle aspects of building the complex chains pY requires even for basic circuits, but I usually grow bored before even reaching blue science. And the problem is that the ratios are such that everything is just damn slow. The 8:1 ore-plate ratio is a pain in the ass, especially since it ...

Seeing iron, copper and steel meandering through the base to build piercing ammo, which again meanders on belts through the base to the outer beltline to refill all the turrets, it's awesome. Much better than seeing bots everywhere.

When you're seeing bots everywhere, you're seeing logistic ...

Yes, working without robots is slow and obtaining them for the first time in a game feels like a good step forward.

You're conflating logistic robots and construction robots. My point is, they're really different. I'd even say that the coolness of construction bots is almost hidden by the arrival ...

dog80 wrote:one solution - what might be strange - is to replace red-chips requirement of ropoport to green chips . this way you could skip plastic/redchips production and already head to construction bots

Won't work, robot common body requires acid and lubricant.

Construction bots are a QoL thing for everybody but the very new player. They allow to do obvious things like copy/paste or efficient planning. If they didn't exist we would all be yelling for something equivalent.

But they happen extremely late. Even if they pretend to be pre-oil, it's a lie. The ...

Dreepa wrote:Resources at the start need to be reliable but not too much.
They need get bigger and richer the farther out they are. Progressing with distance as well as challenge.

That's the exact current state.

OG.

In https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191 there are some very interesting ideas that would probably make that problem moot by in particular allowing to place a ghost of an item you don't have.

OG.

bobingabout wrote: set up your system with 1 tank.
vent at 2250.

Why? Why not vent at 90% capacity instead? You'll need a couple of arithmetic combiners for that, but I don't see that as a problem...

OG.

[rant]First of all...spilling liquid should never produce pollution. Because that kind of mechanic messes with the "i can remove and place anything i want, any time i want" aspect of factory construction. I've played on a server before that had a mod that added that kind of spill-pollution mechanic ...

Do you have numbers to support your argument (like microseconds per thread creation)?

One thing I found here from 2013:
Milliseconds to create thread: 0.015625

As far as I remember thread creation cost highly depends on the operating system and libraries and it can be very little when you have ...