While I share the sentiment, you need to keep in mind that gunturrets are super cheap to research and to produce. They are explicitely meant for the early game. The superior damage upgrades and ammo benefits simply allow it to remain usefull well into the later stages of the game. Increasing the bas...

I don't know inhowfar this matters, but as in I wrote in the title, most of the personal equipments have an internal buffer of a certain size and I would like this to be added to the column on the right which gives an easy overview of the stats of the object. Specifically: Everything except roboport...

Nightvision is currently the only equipment which explicitely requires batteries to be used (since PFR isn't available that early): Shields totally work without batteries, they just aren't as effective because they can't recharge as fast. Discharge defense has enough charge for 1 or two shots, which...

Hmm, I kinda think of biters in a similar way, but I didn't have the experience that they have bad timing. Did you play deathworld of deathworld marathon? In my experience, marathon does a nice job of slowing down the pace of the game (you have much more time to do stuff, but obviously you also need...

I don't mind efficiency modules being the solution to deathworld marathon. It's just how you do it. If you nerf them, people will figure out a different strategy which will become the new solution. They will most likely never see much use outside of the more biter-heavy modes, as they only reduce en...

The viability of defense/offense is also a question of difficulty, size of your factory and your skill. Going to the biters and killing them before they attack you works decently, at normal difficulty and for the first part of the game. The higher your skill, the longer you can get away with it. But...

I keep having this idea about two cutscenes for freeplay and I wanted to know what you think about it and if you think it would be worth doing. The first cutscene would be right at the start of the game. You see a landing capsule descending from the sky and making a more or less gracefull landing. T...

-The "on-fire" damage from getting touched by the stream (100dmg/s for 30s) IS affected by research as far as i can tell. -The "on-fire" effect is NOT a certain kill. It will deal a total 3000 damage to the target (without research, see above), which is equal to the health of a behemoth biter, but i...

I could imagine that the satellite is currently not sent into an orbit, but off and away on an eternal journey into space and it probably has a limited amount of energy to work with. From it's heightened position it can receive signals from the characters homeworld (or an outpost), and send down som...

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Thu Aug 01, 2019 1:35 am

It's not meant to be foolproof.

Few things ever are. It is practically never a problem for me. The thought just occurred to me and I wanted to see if I can screw myself - it worked. I thought it was funny and good-to-know, so I posted it here.

Small biters(SB): 7 dmg. Medium biters(MB): 15 dmg. Big biters(BiB): 30dmg. Behemoth biters(BeB): 90 dmg. With light armor: 3.2 dmg(SB), 9.6 dmg(MB), 21.6 dmg(BiB), 69.6 dmg(BeB). With heavy armor: 0.7 dmg(SB), 6.3 dmg(MB), 16.8 dmg(BiB), 58.8 dmg(BeB). Light armor makes you about twice as durable a...

As far as I see it, the purpose of biters is to add complexity and challenge to the game. Think about it: Factorio is inherently a game without goal or purpose. Mine resources to build stuff to mine more resources to [infinite loop]. So the whole point is to make that infinite loop fun and interesti...

I don't know what update it was, but there was an update, some time ago that made your inventory reserve a space whenever you take something out of it, so you can always put it back and free your cursor. It's not foolproof though, I just found a way to still get stuck with a full inventory and a ful...

From my experience (which is from 1.6 so it doesn't include the new pollution mechanics, but the basics should be the same): -Everything that reduces pollution (as mentioned already, but you can't stress this enough). --Special mention to efficiency modules. Put them in everything with a slot. Espec...

While I would support flamethrower turrets and handheld/vehicle flamethrowers to be more similar in ammo usage (turrets use 3 liquid/s while flamethrower ammo costs 100 liquid and 5 steel bars per second), remember that fluids are essentially a free and infinite resource. Therefore anything based so...

I don't think they're being used to make up for a deficiency. Pumps are actually used irl for the exact same purpose as they're being used in game. This is far from an "arbitrary" requirement. And anyway, what would happen to pumps in an instant flow system? If they're not needed for pumping pressu...

Hmm, it has the charm of a problem being solved with a sledgehammer (solving problems with a sledgehammer does have some charm). Pros: -It would work -Perfomance and easy to code -I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference Cons: -I've never built anything large, there may be large-scale effe...

So, I made a mod for testing these settings and they pretty much do what I want them to. I did notice an issue with perfect aim for flamethrower turrets: If the turrets aim to where the biters will be, they often shoot to a point very close to themselves (since the biters are running at them). This ...

The amount of data needed for machine learning is huge . If I remember correctly, the Dota2 bot developed by OpenAI is processing millions of games per day . And more data is almost always better (you still have to do quality control). So we are talking here about amounts of data where "manually gat...

I can't possibly be the only person to think this. :) You aren't. When I started using the new planners I totally tried putting them in my library, fully expecting it to work. I'm not using them so often, so it's not a big problem for me, but I can relate. It feels like you should be able to do it.