[edit] And if the lightning/Tesla coil idea MUST be kept in the new design, I would suggest to put all the "electricity" inside a ball like those plasma lamps :


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It would make the whole thing look less dangerous and possibly less eye-catching as well, since this is ...

Infested!

No one will ever guess what it does by this visual. It is a weapon, or furnace... The eye in the center is very confusing. Spire doesn't look like a transmitter. It is not associated with area effect.

I [don't] love it!
Admins, don't do it again...

I don't agree it is "integrated in the world of Factorio". It looks very foreign.
May be it's because I don't like beacon itself, as a game mechanic.

I have issuse with the idea, as crafting items is in my opionion one of the main features of factorio. If I can use different items without crafting them this feels worong for me. And where will you stop? Do the same with power poles, belts, assembling machines or inserters? No, I don't want this ...

Where are these "policies" stored, then? How are they defined?

How much work will it be, collectively, for everyone to retrofit their mods to accommodate the new tile definitions?

How much time should the devs spend on working out how to migrate every existing blueprint to reflect this ...

Uh no I explicitely stated that Hazard Concrete stays Hazard Concrete just like it did before but turned 90° like it also did before? Nothing changes for Blueprint Users only Tile Brush changes Rotation Behavior to change to the Design you want.

How would that be actually implemented?

Hazard ...

1. You will get tired to "rotate" with decorative mods.
2. Why do you use hazard regular concrete at all?
3. It will not be easy to rotate blueprint with concrete.
4. 100% like this idea.

mergele wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:16 pm In my experience I research a lot faster than I used that research so I just let it back up on the belt and don't care about synchronizing production speeds. Once the assembly machines sleep 0 is always equal to 0.

Try to play Marathon x100 =D

Deadlock989 wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:16 am One big box that feeds in ore and outputs rockets.

Wow, fun.

Blueprint your entire factory)

It all sounds like a generic compound crafting machine. Simply make mega-assembler. But for what?
And I don't see any reason to implement it except for the entertainment of developers, but I'm sure they have other thigs to do.

As even depleted oil patch powers itself, pollution might be the only reason.
So, short answer is no.

In Factorio any building cost is negligible.

Hello, factorians.

Although I like new simplified oil processing entry recipe, I miss balancing between two oil cracking recipes (in addition to coal liquefaction).
Sulfuric Acid would be an interesting ingredient for late-game oil management, as it involves iron. Also it is used IRL.
So, I suggest ...

Pickaxe was removed because it has no alternatives.
Player has a lot of wepons to choose from. He can not to use pistol/smg at all.

P.S. OMG, I want a chainsaw...

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What's wrong with having the (electric) offshore pump start with some power when placed so it pumps enough water to get boilers going?


It will be very frustrating in early game, while here are no other sorces of electric power. To reset factory after blackout you'll have to mine and rebuild ...

Draw up my post in FFF discussion as a suggestion.

Pump can transform into Fluid Wagon Crane for free.
New Offshore Pump looks like Pump.
2+2=4. Make "Offshore Pump" an another form of regular Pump.
To solve once and for all the problem of energy-free pump, add Offshore Power Generator as ...

ssilk wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:36 am Or https://mods.factorio.com/mod/StackSizeCombinator

It’s for 0.17, but I think that should be upgradeable “by hand” (normally need to upgrade the version number in info.json). Not tested, so you can blame me.

This one is better, thx.
But suggestion is still relevant.