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by GiftGruen
Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:50 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?
Replies: 23
Views: 7075

Re: Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?

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 sattelite ...
by GiftGruen
Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:08 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Inserter throughput
Replies: 40
Views: 11389

Re: Inserter throughput

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 p...
by GiftGruen
Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:41 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?
Replies: 23
Views: 7075

Re: Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?

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...
by GiftGruen
Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:12 am
Forum: Questions, reviews and ratings
Topic: Mod that auto-places corner pipes?
Replies: 0
Views: 807

Mod that auto-places corner pipes?

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 ba...
by GiftGruen
Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:48 am
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?
Replies: 23
Views: 7075

Add Extra Despawn Timer to Higher Armour Tiers?

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...
by GiftGruen
Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:44 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #227 - Rendering, Trees & Scenario talk
Replies: 116
Views: 45480

Re: Friday Facts #227 - Rendering, Trees & Scenario talk

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 ...
by GiftGruen
Mon Jan 08, 2018 5:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #224 - Bots versus belts
Replies: 905
Views: 338649

Re: Friday Facts #224 - Bots versus belts

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 st...
by GiftGruen
Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:03 pm
Forum: Multiplayer
Topic: [Deutsch] Noob sucht Mitspieler
Replies: 2
Views: 1180

Re: [Deutsch] Noob sucht Mitspieler

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 richti...
by GiftGruen
Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:27 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Attacking biters with turrets makes all weapons pointless
Replies: 233
Views: 129493

Re: Attacking biters with turrets makes all weapons pointless

The idea was that the worms stayed underneath the ground and could not be attacked, but only ever used this attack versus turrets.
by GiftGruen
Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:15 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Attacking biters with turrets makes all weapons pointless
Replies: 233
Views: 129493

Re: Attacking biters with turrets makes all weapons pointless

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 ...

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