Thanks for keeping up the good work for so many years , to bring such a nice result. It sets up a high standard for the gaming industry now. By the way , a good way to show gratitude is to gift factorio copies to people who can't afford the game , so whoever has the means should consider doing that ...

Something I love in mods such as angel/bobs and the pyanodon suite is supply chain loops (product A makes product B makes product C makes product A) that can trigger feedback loops when the delicate balance of your production is disrupted. This motivates me to try modding Factorio myself to make a s...

If you're playing solo then it's expected that deathworld biters take a lot of your time. There are custom deathworlds I played that are only possible in coop thanks to biter swarms quickly eroding even very heavy defenses , making base maintenance a full time job until drones. If the biters have a ...

While blueprint importing is very much necessary to avoid repetition after many runs , it would be nice to have an "all my design" achievement for not using any imported blueprints in a given run until rocket launch. This would push new players to try and figure things out on their own (or...

Just launched a rocket after 30 hours in a (green start) deathworld with 40% pollution absorption , 30% biter cost and 25% pollution diffusion. The start was a mighty struggle as we spent the vast majority of our iron on ammo and turrets , then mass produced piercing ammo to go on the offensive and ...

Interesting , we did a default setting angel/bob/rampant/RSO coop run a while ago but defense was very easy thanks to plasma turrets. Did you remove artifact drops or disable bob's warfare ? Rampant biters did not seem to adapt to those plasma turrets (not that much could be done when they covered o...

Factorio's soundtrack sounds fine and functional to me. It has played for 1000+ hours without making me sick so , I don't see any issues with it.

The hotbar is so practical I can't see myself reverting to inventory for most tasks. Mine is like : 1) (furnace - miner early on) or (yellow storage chest - medium pole) - yellow belt - yellow underground belt - yellow splitter - assembling machine - mining drill - wall - gun turret - repair pack 2)...

Since the biter pathing change , large biter swarms seem much more threatening. As a result it's easy to make them appear too early to stand a chance at winning or progressing in the game. But I think I found a sweet spot that allows desperate last stands stretching on for quite a while : deathworld...

I may be in the minority , but I find biters absolutely integral to the factorio experience. For planning to pose a challenge , it must be under the pressure of attack waves that must be handled with whatever tech you have , in a perimeter size you can afford. This is why I play and host worlds with...

TL;DR A second tier of walls with more hit points to better protect against behemoth biters. The concept : This is something that people have talked about a long time ago , but never produced its own suggestion thread for some reason. Current walls are available extremely early , and are fairly che...

I think this is mostly due to the nature of the game - if research is slow , you can always expand it and the materials extraction and processing needed to support it until it's no longer slow. But it's true that the game has fairly cheap research with default settings , I think this was decided to ...

I thought this was an intended change , it's entirely normal to be attacked prior to first research if you use lots of burner miners , and it should be manageable with light armor and pistol. Light pollution produces small attack waves , especially if it's just one nest. Deathworld settings on the o...

While shotguns already had very limited uses in 0.16 , I'd argue the combat system change in 0.17 made them effectively useless beyond shooting isolated , undefended single nests prior to any weapon or ammo upgrades. An issue arises when trying to use them against worm or spitter defended nests : fi...

It seems to me that this recipe change was intended to 1) entice players to mass produce frames for all drone types and 2) bridge the gap between a late game factory and a rocket assembling one. This means less single-purpose factories.

Sure thing. Unfortunately I didn't think to keep the relevant autosave from before it crashed , but the crash can probably be reproduced manually by setting up that circuit network contraption and wiring it to a power switch. 0.001 2019-03-10 14:31:25; Factorio 0.17.9 (build 43513, win64, steam) 0.0...

This may or may not be an issue with 0.17 specifically (no mods) but I'm submitting this just in case. I tried to make a SR latch from memory to regulate backup (steam engines) power generation but the result was very wrong , layout of decider combinators linked with a single color of wire like so :...

Got this too , right after completing the coal extraction objective. Here's the code it gives : The scenario level caused a non-recoverable error. Please report this error to the scenario author. Error while running event level::on_tick (ID 0) __base__/lualib/compi.lua:97: bad argument #1 to 'pairs'...

We saw that happen with just medium spitters , but big spitters certainly make things worse.

Once version 0.17 was released I was excited to try out the new target leading flamethrower turrets , and they do deliver in biter slaughter for sure. However there's a problem with them - pipes feeding them will often be destroyed by spitter attacks' splash damage , and the flamethrower turrets wil...