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. ...

Oh man, you guys. That crashed ship looks so good! But one tiny nitpick I have is the dirt underneath it. The state of the ground tells us the story about how the ship crashed. Like, not just "a ship crashed here" but how the crash played out. etc. +painting. As someone with a hopefully decent gras...

On the topic of HR graphics, I got to get this off my chest: Increasing the resolution is NOT equal to increasing the visual technology level (e.g. updating a low-res wooden club to a high-res steel sword). I know that I'm not in charge of design, and frankly, it's not my game, so as long as the dev...

Can't say that I don't appreciate good graphics, but I gotta say.
I really loved the old bulky biters.
And seing those old locomotive graphics ... ... They just have something the current ones don't.

An idea to try cleaning up the fluid(non)mixing mess. At least a bit. For all buildings with a fluid inlet/outlet (the outlet is more important) introduce two states: connected and disconnected. State can be different for each outlet/inlet for buildings with multiple ones. An outlet/inlet in the "di...

The New Hope demo levels/tutorial is fine, except that it begs the question of Backstory. Who was here before us? ---> Why another engineer, of course. And apparently a foolish one. Where is/are they now? ---> Dead? Can we locate/rescue them? ---> Haven't seen any necromancy in Factorio, but maybe ...

I wonder how hard it would be to have the construction drones throw grenades to clear trees But... but... all that valuable, valuable wood. :( I actually use it btw. Wooden poles forever (plus some big ones for large distances). So while it's a funny idea, it would need to be somehow controllable s...

It won't happen. Destroyers are not misbalanced, they are conceptually not suited as a final solution to combat. As long as there are nukes and artillery, destroyers will never be a reasonable choice for biter killing. Combat robots are cheap to research, therefore provide you with a temporary boost...

Playing against biters is always a race against time. Increasing the difficulty in any way forces you to race harder, forcing you to build "ugly but effective". It's just the way the game works. The experience you're probably looking for is marathon (since everything is more expensive the biters eff...

Eff. Module 1 -> -30% power consumption Eff. Module 2 -> -90% power consumption Eff. Module 3 -> -110% power consumption I once proposed more. It has been discussed before and I'm pretty sure it's a known "issue". Issue in "" because I'm also pretty sure that a large amount of players/modders/devel...

I disagree that turret creep makes weapons useless. Naturally, using some turrets to hold your back is a good idea or even mandatory in most cases. But: In regular mode (maybe also death world), during early game, defender bots are way better than gun turrets. Basically defender bots are cheapish mo...

Not a fan of the redesign. Most of what I think has already been said so I'll skip to something which hopefully hasn't been said. "It needs to be a tower in order to transmit the effect." No it doesn't. Towers are built to tower over their surroundings, therefore being able to do whatever they do un...

I keep getting the suspicion that up to a certain perimeter length, regular manual repairs and refilling with ammo takes less time than the time it takes to build these sorts of self-sustained defenses. And I also usually switch to lasers ASAP to avoid needing that kind of stuff (among other reasons).

So, adding a "mid-area" ? Being able to pick your starting spot would be amazing, but I can't see it working with the way how resources (& biters) increase exponentially from the start... Also you can kind of simulate this by just doing Escape => Restart until you find what you like ? No the "mid-a...

Idk too much but when I hear the term "multithreading" I only really think about tasks that are properly parallelizable and would therefore benefit from an arbitrary number of processors. Point in case, the factor of speed you can gain from multithreading is at most the number of cores you have, in ...

This post is motivated by the (probably well known) observation that the starting area can have a rather dramatic impact on the start of the game. Especially when playing on higher difficulties it's very important to get a good start and some maps can be unplayable highly challenging due to no other...

The endgame is when your computer can't handle your world anymore.

I never actually use red ammo :P. The damage to resource ratio is terrible even after considering armor. The point about turtling is to always keep the defenses up to the latest tech, eg. you have to race flamer/laser before too many blues start to come. Point in case, I made it work for a DM world ...

Total focus on urgent automated turret, bullet, and wall production, with 5% of time/resources going towards "other". This is your problem. Your pollution causes the biter attacks, so you build more ammo + stuff, so you create more pollution, therefor biter send larger attack waves, so you have to ...

Hätte grundsätzlich Interesse. Habe gute Erfahrung mit Factorio aber nicht viel mit Multiplayer also kann sein dass nicht gleich alles läuft von meiner Seite. Schreib mal ne PM wenn du Interesse hast. Bezüglich Mods/Modus: Ich spiele in der Regel Vanille, Modus egal (gerne auch mal (marathon) deathw...