Afaik, the reason you are no longer required to stick a satellite into your rocket is because it was a beginners' trap you could fall into easily, and was way too high a punishment for one sloppy mistake.


If you base your whole argument on this maybe you should explain it. Because as the ...

Looking at what you wrote, it seems like they simply used the time for one full inserter swing as a shortcut because computing the real number of resources needed to never run out would be more expensive to compute? In that case, you are right that simply increasing the buffer size would solve the ...

This is exactly the kind of comment I tried to pre-empt by comparing it with no satellites in rockets. The latter clearly got changed because the devs did NOT think "this case should never occur in good play, therefore any punishment you suffer from deviating from said good play (because you're new ...

Hello modding community!

I'm looking for a very lightweight mod that does not alter gameplay mechanics, but removes one of the small hassles when laying pipe networks. Basically, all I want is to be able to build a corner with my underground pipes without having to switch to regular pipes or come ...

Losing power armour etc. sucks a lot for beginners in mid-game. Afaik, the reason you are no longer required to stick a satellite into your rocket is because it was a beginners' trap you could fall into easily, and was way too high a punishment for one sloppy mistake. Similarly, getting a lovely hug ...

If you plan to develop the "Production PvP" idea further, one simple change that would (imho) make it far more challenging and strategic would be to change it so that you had to export items for them to count against your score. Or maybe the things in your base count some, but exporting a full stack ...

What about making bots have collision boxes that are used to detect collision with other bots only ? They could still fly over factories etc., but not transport your main ore from the train station to the smelters.
The change would make them less and less efficient at moving large quantities, but ...

Dir ebenfalls einen guten Tag, KHR! Was genau schwebt dir denn vor? Factorio-Spieler finden ja an unterschiedlichen Dingen Spaß am Spiel. Möchtest du primär:

- Ein Spiel gewinnen (also Rakete bauen, wie das Spiel einem das am Anfang mitteilt),
- Komplizierte Maschinenreihen aufbauen (also die ...

The idea was that the worms stayed underneath the ground and could not be attacked, but only ever used this attack versus turrets.

What about making the worms able to burrow and destroy turrets by "undermining" them? You would not need a lot of animations to implement that, just a burrowing and unburrowing one and a few animations to show the worm's path (producing "fault lines" along its path). It would be useless against the ...