Summary: On the last step of the Ghost Rail tutorial (Plan any path through the walled area), the pathfinder will sometimes plan a route which takes less than 50 pieces of rail. This requires you to place more rail even though the objective is complete.

Steps:
- Complete the Ghost Rail tutorial up ...

Summary: One-time crash shortly after entering the Ghost Rail tutorial. I had entered and exited the tutorial 3 times to reproduce a separate bug.

Steps:
- Played for about 15 minutes.
- Entered the Ghost Rail tutorial.
- Finished the tutorial.
- Entered the tutorial again.

Result: Game crashed ...

Defense in Factorio feels to me like it should mostly follow the arc in Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander:

1. Small amount of weak defenses / units, micromanaged.
2. Mix of lots of weak defenses and smaller number of long-range defenses or tough/powerful units. Some micromanagement.
3 ...

First thought was "ohhhh this is going to be a problem, I better clear my schedule."
Second thought was "how do I unequip the thing I'm holding?"

I threw together some awful code in Autohotkey if anyone uses it, for demonstration. Makes rail construction much nicer for now.

Shift-T to switch to Train Mode, R to rotate right, Shift-R to rotate left.


$+t::
IfWinActive, Factorio
{
SendInput +t
If TrainMode = 1
{
TrainMode := 0
}
else ...

Currently, the curved track uses this pattern. Building a circle clockwise takes 5 rotations per track, building counterclockwise takes 3.

http://i.imgur.com/0it8ZzS.jpg

If the pattern were switched to this, building clockwise would only be 1 rotation per track.

http://i.imgur.com/RCiXg78.jpg ...