I already have a difficult time making one assembling machine's worth of blue science, how is it beneficial to make it more difficult by duplicating the line? It's not like it's going to make it any easier to catch up. I often have to spend many hours just letting the game run idle as it is, oftent...

I'll second what others have said about upgrading Arithmetic Combinators to be able to perform operations between red and green signals, since that would do a fantastic job of streamlining quite a few builds, but otherwise this is all looking pretty amazing. Belts move stuff from place to place auto...

You could read the hand contents and wire it to the lamp with anything > 0 as the condition. This will work to turn on a lamp whenever the hand is full. If you want to colour the lamp, hook it up via a combinator that outputs a coloured signal (Arithmetic: Anything + 0, output in desired colour. De...

The idea that a system of pipes, tanks, and connected structures be treated as a single entity wouldn't be able to use a throughput limitation. However, it would greatly improve the performance of mega bases that want to use very large steam setups to power their bases over using solar. I don't see...

Realistically, it's not practical to have a different kind of stop for every possible niche use. The current array of preset stop conditions covers the most common things people will want to do, and the circuit network is flexible enough to handle virtually everything else. If a particular applicati...

I wouldn't call it a problem per se, but I agree that gating splitter filters behind a tech makes a lot of sense. That means the player has to do a little bit of work to unlock a fairly powerful feature, as well as introducing the concept to players instead of simply leaving it there to be discovere...

I still would like to see nuclear more integrated into the game :-) I do see where you're coming from. Nuclear's pretty cool; designing reactors is complex enough to be quite fun, and there's a bunch of extra infrastructure associated with it that requires some unique concepts (fluids for mining, p...

I like this idea a lot, especially where it seems very simple to add. +1 Also can we please get the ability to show the overlay without having to pick-up a railsignal? I haven't checked since 0.16 hit, but there used to be an option to display the overlay in the debug menu (F4). It might still be in...

Well, the thing is that trains, belts and even bots provide a throughput challenge. With this pipes would be the odd one out unless you count power flow in power cables. I like the fluid feel of fluids, but maybe I would also be fine with this simplified way. Would have to play it first. I don't li...

Bobucles, you still haven't told me what you're using steel chests for, or why there is ever a need to upgrade above iron. As far as I can tell, steel chests exist solely as an ingredient to be used in Logistic Chests. Logistic chests are certainly useful, but their utility comes from outside of th...

As I'm reading this, it's distinct from the upgrade planner in that it's talking about being able to scale blueprints up to the desired size based on how many times a related blueprint has been used. I don't see how that would ever be possible, short of being able to somehow upgrade a blueprint into...

What about simply having 2 different recipes for the satellite: a) the old one needs a lot of ressources, but is „clean“ with solar energy b) an alternative nuclear version could me much cheaper in the amount of ressources, but require expensive U238 Especially in bases that focus on mass-productio...

Let's say they implement star gates. You can teleport to other planets and build there too. Other than possible exclusive resources, give me at least ONE reason the player may want to build there. You mean something like clusterio? Where you have a vast interconnected system of pocket-universes? He...

The Upgrade Planner mod can't leave entities running, simply because of how it works (it deconstructs the original then builds the new one in its place), but I imagine an official version of it could incorporate quick replace functionality to avoid that.

You can implement that with the circuit network. Specifically, by linking the stop to a rail signal on the rail you want to detect the other train on. Set the stop's leave condition to release the stopped train when the signal turns red, and the stopped train will start moving when the other train ...

Realistically, if you're that far away from your base, you should probably be building out a primary rail line as you explore (and plopping radars down periodically to scan further out). To that end, you can probably get away with just using a train to haul the supplies, and break out a car if you w...

I feel like this is something that would be best left to mods. Give players defensive options that are too strong, and the player ends up being invulnerable to biters (which already happens to a certain extent). Buff biter damage to compensate, and players end up having to invest much more time and ...

Does the "Solar Panel Power" field in the general armour information not update based on the time of day? I've never actually paid attention to it, since it's a given that it's going to be a too-small number. If it doesn't, that seems like the most obvious place to put this,

I'd mostly just like to see some denominators. Present satisfaction as current demand/max demand (or current draw/current demand, as the bar currently shows), production as current supply/max supply, and accumulator charge as current charge/max charge. The numbers as they're presented now really are...

I'll second this.