Regarding the "magic build technology" placing the surface structures / buildings on the surface by ghost building; is there already an official dev answer, how the lore is on this? As a way-out and additional logistics exercise I'dlike to add the idea of having another surface building, ...

1. Research pumpjacks 2. Go place pumpjacks 3. Go back to the base while laying down a line of pipes (and underground), and branch it to storage (note that those are already researched) 4. Make chem plants / refineries 5. Use oil I mean, what psychopath refine oil at the outpost instead of at the b...

* You have split the "oil wall" into, what? "Handling fluids" and "Handling fluids with multiple outputs"? Is the former even a wall at all, given that the player should already have some grasp of that? In the "oil wall" I'd include whatever comes out of oil ...

My point was that the time from making solid fuel to not needing burnable fuel at all is too small to benefit from setting it up (in factorio's scales; at least for me, setting up a new coal patch later is simpler than extending oil & its processing sooner), and, as it stands, in the tech tree ...

Ok, new players might find a use for it, but hoping people make something potentially useless & easily dismissable just because they're forced to spend a resource isn't good game design. I usually have enough coal to last me until I get solars & electric furnaces (& nuclear fuel for tra...

don't really care about getting solid fuel until it's strictly required, and always struggled with my base dying when light & heavy oil backed up since it has exactly 0 use to me before blue science) Emphasis mine - this is perhaps part of the reason why you're struggling so much. Solid fuel wa...

Having read about half of the posts here, I still don't quite understand why do so many people think the oil change simplifies/dumbs down the game in any way. Sure, it makes the start of oil simpler, but you've still got to figure out advanced oil processing & cracking at some point sooner or la...

I have never (successfully) used the automatic trash for anything because of one problem - there are always exceptions when I want to hold more of an item type - e.g. building a massive belt, moving a furnace setup and not wanting to kill all robots with thousands of ore/plates, hand-crafting someth...

16.6ms is eons in computer-speak, about 50 million cpu cycles at 3ghz.... Instead of dropping a fame that can't be drawn wouldn't it be more visually pleasing to have a subroutine hold on to whatever the current/last frame data was, and constantly feed that at 60 fps whether or not you can update t...