I find it quite reasonable to say that you're limited to the worst of your inputs. A chain that has all high quality links except for one weak link isn't a high quality chain.

Put another way, you get quality by committing to quality, not by cheaping out on one component or another.

Can the big drill run two fluid inputs? "Can mining drills use more than one fluid?" really is the big question here. Also, how would pass through be handled for situations where multiple fluids are needed? Uranium ore requires sulfuric acid, after all, and if you're using big mining dril...

How would you expect the sort order to work when using longer queries like "Resource Marker". E.g. when sorting by "Recently updated" would you prefer to have results without the word "Marker" ranked higher if they have a more recent update than results that match both...

Right now I'm having an issue where the sort features don't seem to work as expected. I've attached a few pictures where I've tried to sort the portal by different options and the results remain displayed in the same order. Is there a bug here?

Research already has three sets of diminishing returns associated with it. 1. Techs get more expensive in terms of science pack count 2. Later techs take more time per set of packs to research. 3. Each lab may contribute the same amount of research speed in absolute terms but each additional one is ...

Two questions:

1. Is the limit of one cargo landing pad per planet something that can be changed by mods?

2. Can other structures have a per planet limit applied by a mod?

Looking good. I'm still hoping that we'll get a way to select their next station based on some criteria (IE, an iron ore train goes to stations that need iron ore), though.

Now, these are observations based on the current recipes in the game. I still think that making better use of heavy oil, light oil, and petroleum gas as separate products would be preferable to the current state where advanced oil processing is all but required to avoid stalling production. I think...

I'll add that, since coal liquefaction produces light oil, it adds to the problem of using up light oil without cracking. You can buff it all you like, but without sinks for light oil, you still run into the problem of stalling oil production. If the next version really does shift the output to a he...

Coal cracking is less effective than light oil cracking. It gives a respectable boost of oil resources but it's not an end all solution. It never will be an end all solution because light oil cracking is essential to maximize oil resources. Therefore the weaker tech belongs at an earlier spot in th...

Not yet. The roadmap post indicates that a release is planned for this month, but there’s no specific date for it.

As I understand it, all entities have had their energy consumption values tweaked so that the relative efficiency of, say, electric furnaces and steel furnaces remains the same.

This update suggests that the devs think a lot of players are using automated science production as a source of materials for further expansion, and expansion of their main factory to fuel science production. My play style definitely doesn't include this, nor does that of most of the people I've wa...

On the whole, this particular update is one where I'm in a mood to wait and see, since it's hard to gauge how the changes to science will feel without playing with the recipes in game. But, some of the things mentioned in this thread do warrant some comment, though. Science pack names: While on one ...

I like the changes to the rocket science tree. Makes it more of a gradual build-up then a monolithic task, and since there's uses for everything in the tree, you're incentivized to start working on it early. I hope that shallow water makes it into the freeplay modes. Like cliffs, it's another terrai...

I am sure you all have seen this reddit thread, but I think this is exactly how they should act. I think that blueprints being items is unessisary, and only adds more complication and confusion then keeping them as items for "consistency". There is very little about blueprints that say it...

Will there be a way to save custom presets in the game itself? IE, without having to copy a string and saving it to an external file?

The main issue I see with the tech tree as it is lies in the icons. They're very busy, and while they look nice up close, when viewed from a more distant perspective, it's difficult to quickly identify which technology is which. The icons should be revisited, with an eye towards making them readily ...

This change to laser turrets may get me to actually use them, because that effect is pretty cool.

It seems like there are two main objections to bots in their current form: Infinite throughput and ease of use. If bots are limited in how many can access a chest in a given period of time, the infinite throughput goes away, but it then adds a new challenge for players to solve. How do you maximize ...