FFF #428 may solve this indirectly. I'd like to hear opinions on whether this is enough: It outputs the amount of items needed to satisfy all the logistic requests in the system, including mobile entities like the player and spiders. Importantly (or unfortunately), it does not include items needed ...

Disabled chests had better not be included in logistics totals. It's already terrible that buffers are counted in totals, and ruins all my logic. If disabled chests are counted, they will interfere with circuits trying to count how many items need to be made. I like to use buffer chests for construc...

I don't mind nerfs if they improve the overall balance, but I'm surprised the devs are willing to super-nerf lasers by 66%, but won't nerf endgame beacon spam even when it ruins the game's visual style completely. The beacon truly has a charmed life. (Don't worry beacon fans. It's obviously never g...

I don't mind nerfs if they improve the overall balance, but I'm surprised the devs are willing to super-nerf lasers by 66%, but won't nerf endgame beacon spam even when it ruins the game's visual style completely. The beacon truly has a charmed life. (Don't worry beacon fans. It's obviously never go...

I'm sure this is a wrong forum, but you can just move it to where it belongs. I couldn't find a better place to say this. https://factorio.com/support/help has missing punctuation: I linked my Steam to the wrong account vs. I linked my Steam to the wrong account. It is almost pointless but I feel ir...

I'm glad there aren't ugly scanlines or lense flares on the Display Panel. Am I correct that Remote View removes the ugly scanline "vignette" currently on the map view? (I hacked the shader to remove it years ago, so actually I have no idea if it still exists. But I assume it isn't gone ye...

Do we know what hour and timezone the expansion releases on? I find it entertaining to put countdowns to games on my phone screens, and I enjoy the absurdity of counting hours if possible. "102" days is just not as entertaining as "101 days, XX hours, XX minutes".

Ok, you are either treating us like we are stupid or hiding real reason for this change. What you did won't change designs. More beacons is still better... If you truly wished for cutting their number, you would code hard limits on assemblers and other devices. Just like it is with efficiency but f...

I am seeing a lot of replies claiming that "the" meta is strictly 12 beacon builds, and that these changes don't affect the meta. That's incorrect: if you're building big, ups-optimized bases, direct insertion is king. That requires unusual beacon layouts, with (sometimes) twelve beacons ...

But there is a way to prevent that! All that needs to be done is increase the base beacon energy consumption. Double it! (maybe make it scale with the number of machines serviced). By doubling or tripling the base beacon energy consumption, the optimal count of beacon source per machine will become...

This is a fake solution imo. It's still 12-beacon endgame. I realize anti-nerf culture makes removing 12-beacon impossible. I expected devs to do nothing. This is better than nothing, so I should be happy. My best ideas were some change to layouts that made beacons smaller, or let belts overlap them...

I will use priority so malls and power-related builds aren't starved of resources. And it will be nice to adjust module production as sometimes above science, sometimes below.

This won't help me ship intermediaries by train. I need a mall to be able to request the intermediaries it needs from across the train network. Only then would it be sensible to build intermediaries that aren't ratioed perfectly for science, and use "priority" to distribute them. The main ...

Recipe-setting is worrying. It converts "logistics" with its pleasing visuals designed by artists, into "programming" with no visuals at all. Malls are worse, so I will use recipe-setting on malls, to cancel one abomination with another. :/ Early-game malls work nicely, with good...

T4 belt color is too close to T3 assemblers. Maybe it will look good with new buildings we don't have yet. Something red?

It also looks "grimier" than T1-3 belts to me, although maybe this is to contrast with all the white inserters we'll have at endgame.

- Bulk inserters doesn't do anything for bot based designs. It can reduce bot traffic by only putting multiples of 4 in a chest, so bots don't carry partial inventories. How much it helps depends on whether the build was already doing it indirectly, by keeping chests full. It will at least be usefu...

copy-pasting doesn't copy trains, and making a regular blueprint after placing the parametrized one may be unnecessarily troublesome if you have other entities in the area (that actually applies to copy-pasting as well). if it's not hard to add, i believe it would be a nice option to have. If you h...

I normally hate noise-based generation, and wish Factorio was tile-based like roguelikes, and this convinced me noise-based at least makes pleasing terrain if artists try hard enough. It will last until I see another map where 2 copper patches in a row are eaten by water, and one of them left a tiny...

edit: Er, I misunderstood the suggestion and thought it was something else. I don't have anything to say about this, unfortunately. Except that obviously some people want it, and it would be convenient.

If I nuke landfill, is it no longer landfill and no longer able to be deconstructed? This would be a tradeoff then, on nuking landfill to increase its pollution absorption.