Here's an idea, have a flashing UI indicator over the blocked outputs in the GUI. Flash a localized text box as well, somewhere under or above the progress bar, that says "output pipe (x) [full/backed up/etc.], cannot continue processing" or similar. This is fundamentally a problem of telling ...

This removes the wall from the game that stopped many people from progressing.


I've done quite a lot of factorio with friends, and the first time they set up oil, the question was "why did it stop". Not "how do I route the fluids" or "what do I hook to where" but "why is this specific part of ...

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The most simple fix in the world for this "problem" is to tell the player, at a higher volume than currently, "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR SETUP, AND HERE ARE THE PARTS THAT ARE INVOLVED". Whether the solution is the outside voice of having a visual indicator, or the loud shouting of a ...

In campaign, there are all sorts of changes being done to bring something to the attention of the player, to help explain why an action must be taken, as opposed to removing the confusing puzzle. Why not take the same path here, and guide the player through the maze with hints and "look-over-here"'s ...

This can be improved further by drawing sprites not as rectangles but as generic polygons that envelope sprites such that most of the fully transparent areas won't be rasterized.

I think you mean envelop.

Modded game disclosure - example used is with the Factorissimo and warehouse mods for convenience, though it can be accomplished with nothing but Factorissimo or some other mod that creates a worldspace with a limited valid tile area.

What I did - entered a Factorissimo factory, and then replaced a ...

0.17 seems to be breaking a lot of things for the sake of having a fat changelog, at least from the outside perspective. I could understand all of the upcoming changes if the upgrade to 0.17 introduced a new modding API and finally dropped the old one that was deprecated since 0.13, wouldn't let you ...

Solution presents itself - the toggle causes the screen to fade to black and then fade back in at the new location in the same time it takes the camera to move to that position, such that the initial and final position and timing are indistinguishable. Then, simply don't allow mods to query the ...

wheybags wrote: Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:21 pm

SpiffyTriffid wrote: Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:40 am Love the cheeky paper on the whiteboard btw

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS

Damn man, how can you read that?

2048×1080 and a zoom hotkey for chrome

Not every mod has to be for everyone. There are people out there that like their abombs shake the screen. Don't like it? Don't use it!
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Banning tech is obviously the wrong solution for this purely social issue about having insufficient information in mod descriptions (and yes, most mod ...

Zoom-out and then zoom-in on the location seems like a much better solution to me. In my mind, zooming out so that the midpoint of the screen is halfway between the target and the user, and then zooming in would be the best way to handle transitions. That, or have the screen grow very fuzzy with the ...

tl;dr decon planner wlist/blist toggle seems to proc on mousedown due to audio indicator that an action has completed, but the actual state change seems to occur after a short delay which can be cancelled out of on accident

I've gotten to the point where I can operate the factorio controls at a ...

Alright, thanks. Haven't had any issues since then but I will look into this.

EDIT: already rocking 10.18, so no joy on a firmware update. Must have been something else. Hasn't happened since though so I'm not super concerned. I play bethesda games so this is nothing

Lowest priority; I really don't care if the root cause ever gets fixed because I can't make it happen again. I just wanted to report it in case this was the breakthrough that lets you fix some .17 release-stopping bug. When zoomed out, I was walking left into a pipe-heavy compact 24-reactor complex ...

This makes me sad. Really, really sad to see what the devs are doing with factorio. The argument was never about pickaxes in particular, or engine sims, or assembler counts. It was about the community asking to keep heavily-used mod features in the game engine, even if they were removed from the ...

I like the direction of these changes. Obviously factorio is a complex game but these changes mostly dont take away from the main complexity and instead allow players to put more focus on those and just remove distractions. I do not watch people like AntiElitz play because they are so good at ...

@ devs why do you give Bob and Angle this big punch in the face?
they made this game to what it is now - what would happen if they stop supporting this game?
all the high skilled streamer stop playing factorio and as a follow the sales will decrease.


Whilst I don't like many of the changes ...

I was coming in to make a silly comment mourning the loss of the lazy bastard puzzle, but I'm just dumbstruck here. Do people truly not understand the concept of removing unnecessary complexity from a design? Pickaxes add *literally nothing* to the actual gameplay, other than potentially giving ...

If the motivation for changes is to make entry level simpler, I get it. Just look at the Steam achievement percentages to see the low proportion of people who stick with the game.

But do all the mining changes and the assembler ingredient count nerf meet that motivation? Mining, I don't think so ...

In my case, it took twenty seconds of looking at the UI to figure out better assemblers allowed better recipes. The eureka moment is something I still remember as a wonderful part of the game.
WRT assemblers, create a popup when a player unlocks a recipe that requires a second tier of assembler or ...