Again, you *have* to take multiplayer into account even if only a tiny fraction of player time is spent on it...

Right, it used to be (in late 0.16) that you didn't have a choice and had to go trough the relatively bad mineralized algae for power until you got to trees, which then easily carried you to nuclear. While now burning trees is worse than the new sea algae (t1) - which is even "better" than the miner...

5thHorseman, you don't keep custom deconstruction planners in your inventory (and link them to your quickbar) ?
Or can we "share" redprints too now ?

I'm using at least 2 : one that only works on mines, and another that only works (or only doesn't) on live trees, dry trees and rocks.

Something Factorio-related should work, however... (early recipe ingredients? with a link to the wiki?) Anything "easy" will be OK, but it should be "common knowledge". If it is factorio-specific you risk off-putting users who would like to join but haven't played the game yet. Or people who are on...

I'm not sure what you find incredible about it, as AI gets better and cheaper, it gets harder and harder to keep spam out. Since people make spambots because they make them money, to beat them the simplest (though hopefully not the best) solution is just to directly raise this bar so that registerin...

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Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:19 am

Compared to the earlier version I played, I have to say, I really like the shorter path to basic crystallization.

Oh, what is the difference ?

Why do I have it as an option in MP hosting on Windows then ?

(And I seem to remember a config option line for MacOS too ?)

add custom textbox for registration with requred input which needs very little thinking for a human but a lot of thinking for a bot, sth like "what is seven + two?" [accepts only "nine" or "9"] Do the spambots still fall for that counting example ? Something Factorio-related should work, however......

Considering that you should have the car by now, you've hardly explored around ? Rampant changes everything : Since you now have two clouds to worry about : pollution and pheromones. And you can't see pheromones without debug tools. And it's hard to get a sense for the effect of pheromones when bite...

You might find this useful : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/vlads_AutoTime Tired of biters evolving too fast while you are planning your science pack assemblers but don't want evolution cheating? This mod adds game speed buttons and also automatically slowsdown game time when you do nothing so you ca...

Ah, yet another reminder as to why OS makers should be legally forbidden to control what software is allowed to run on their OS. (Installed on computers that are NOT theirs !) Or to control an "app store" for their OS, because it will eventually end up there due to the conflict of interest : see how...

As already mentioned - multiplayer ? I have usually 99 autosaves spaced by 1 minute, and I *still* respawn sometimes : - Most often during a fight where I consider to have done much better than my average. - Sometimes as a self-punishment when I feel that I fucked up too badly. :lol: Also, if you're...

Clusterio is awesome and much more on topic but pretty much the opposite of what I asked for (minimize the resources needed to run the exact same simulation over multiple instances running on the same computer).

Oh, right, what I missed because I didn't search deep enough is that Portland cement is 95% blast-furnace slag - a by-product of smelting iron (& steel) from... iron ore ! P.S.: It would be *very* nice if Factorio had a built-in "Factoriopedia" - I learned quite a bit of history "against my own will...

Was there any re-balancing of "biter raising" in 0.17? (If some was needed.) Last I checked (in 0.16) it was strictly worse than crystal dust from geodes, but that might have been just Sea Block's balance ? Also, these artifacts you are talking about are Bob's (?) - any love given to Bob-free Angel ...

"Biter bodies" ?
Are you talking about expanding the current blue science "biter raising" system?

Similar steam engines have: The power they can produce at the current steam level and the power they could produce with full steam. They either have steam and burn it or don't have it and don't. The level doesn't matter, this ON/OFF transition happens in a couple of ticks. (The temperature does mat...

Huh, I thought that it would be "1k steam engines - worth" in both cases - (it's "theoretical", so wouldn't go further than the last step : the *actual* electric power producer, what if I don't have enough coal miners / offshore pumps to supply the boilers ? what if I only have enough charge (and hi...

This is even "less" as an issue because the various ranges, speeds and delays mean that if you try shooting at biters very close to your tank, you will very often end up damaging yourself too. But this seems to be a design feature : use flamethrower or regular canon shells if you want to keep it saf...

The issue is that worms seem to only consider the instantaneous player speed to calculate the future position of the player. This works IRL because inertia means that one cannot instantly change one's speed vector. But this breaks hilariously in the game, since the player doesn't seem to have any in...