If you run in a very small circle, your average velocity is 0, so the spit will be aimed at where you are (and hit). If you run in a larger circle, the aim will be off the mark, but still closer than without averaging your velocity (probably?, i didn't go through all scenarios). At least it should m...

I agree that acid pools are kind of OP, especially their stacking slow and since vehicles don't have the characters dodging ability i would very much welcome some sort of change. As far as i'm concerned the change could be to have spitters/worms use the character speed averaged over the last half-se...

One of the challenges with finding a place for efficiency modules is that their only effects are to reduce energy consumption and pollution production. Both issues can alternatively be dealt with by building more power plants and more defenses. The only situation in which I see efficiency modules b...

At first and second readings, you appear to be saying that Factorio won't ever be optimised enough until a saved game can be expanded until either the player's death of old age, or the universe winds down enough to make life as we know it impossible, whichever comes first. I wouldn´t strictly say i...

I´ve seen a few answers saying basically "Improving performance won´t do since then people will just build bigger factories until they hit performance again". I would like to argue that this is not true. Building a factory takes time. Building a bigger factory takes more time. Humans have ...

Counterpoint: The right side was already cluttered with stuff, map, entity info, so might as well keep all the stuff there and have a full free screen to the left.

And I saw the option to move it to the quickbar. Didn´t do it for me.

+1

Please Please PLEEEEEASE give me a checkbox to move the Armor/Gun quickbar to the right again. Bonus points for explaining the reason for moving it.
Please.

As far as I understand, the prime reason that throws you off of testing your theories yourself is that you simply lack the finger skill required to keep up with your thoughts. Have you thought about writing a bot to do that for you? Building a factory is basically just executing a very elaborate scr...

Military research may not be theoretically infinitely usefull, but in practice, reaching that point (killing behemots with anything with one shot) will not happen anytime soon. On biter-heavy maps, upgrading damage can heavily reduce the effort you need to put into defending your territory as well a...

I don't think it's worth on this kind of map. I mean eventually you'll need to clean up some bases, however @jodokus31 made a valid point, that w/ this map, pollution will just spread further, so it doesn't really matter that much. On this map you'll need to clean up quite a huge section to get eno...

Attacking spawners might be the answer. Although I am not certain exactly which bases to destroy to make the waves smaller. Looking for some input here as I am running around so frantically that I rarely spend time watching how enemy bases behave. Not to mention I haven't played as much since Wube ...

I started playing Marathon Death World version 1.0 with default settings. I managed to launch the first rocket in 94 hours. I don't know if it's fast or not, but it's harder to play than a regular game. I... hope that it's harder. I'm an enthusiastic MD player too, but I always use regular terrain....

I can see why you'd want to be able to disable construction near enemies, especially since you can do this with your personal roboport. But instead I think it might be best to program construction bots to have a sense of self-preservation; To have them avoid enemies instead of charging blindly into...

Have you considered that you missed the point completely? Apparently I have missed the point completely. I don't get why these parameters need adjustment, and why weapons need balance at all. It would ruin my fun if all weapons were made to effectively cost the same. Forgive me. It's just an easy t...

As the title says, I would like an option to disable robot-based construction/repair for entities that have enemies/fire nearby. Construction robots have 100 hp and no reasonable resistances or dodging protocols. Sure, 85% fire resistance, but spending several seconds construction in a fully fueled ...

Red ammo is equally or more resource-efficient if ~0.76*D < R < ~1.76*D With D: Damage of yellow ammo including all modifiers. R: Flat resistance of target. With expensive recipes the window is roughly 0.84 - 1.68. Considering the defense of all enemies the respective ranges where red ammo is worth ...

Going by your metric of "support continuous fire" it does seem a bit messed up. Question though, do you use yellow or red magazines? Because reds are way more expensive in terms of dmg/resources (in all but some edge cases). What I'm not sure about is whether that metric does the problem j...

[Koub] this is drifting to off topic. The thread is about solar to accumulator ratio, not the power to ressource ratio of solar vs other power generation. You might be looking for this thread , where sugn things have already been discussed. Sorry. On the topic: Step1: Define "perfect" in ...

Solar is the ultimate in resource to power ratio: In the "perfect" ratio it gives you 42kW per solar cell for 0 resources (amortized over time). You see with solar there is some initial investment but after that power is simply free. Every other power source requires a constant influx of ...

Meh, ratios in the honor they deserve but on the solar panel/accumulator ratio I've kinda given up. Space optimization is kind of whatever, since if you need high power per space, you simply don't use solar. I'm also fairly certain that solar is not the way to go for a good resource to power ratio. ...