I played around with 0 drain laser walls for a bit a while ago, based on https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=69537 by Qon, and made a few changes myself, but the gist is, afaik, that the accumulator will drain yes and you need a way to maintain a certain charge level on it. Qon's s...

Connect pumps directly to tanks and the difference in pump speed will be tremendous (provided the pump has enough fluid flowing to it to even pump). The two main rules with flow rates and tanks are: place a pump directly before the tank and directly after the tank. Otherwise the pipe connection betw...

Well that was a good 60-70 hours playthrough to finish the primary goal. I stand by my original post, though I wanted to note that I may have been lucky with my spawns, I'm not sure. To answer some questions: For example, while you get many of Factorio's power armor features for free at the start an...

Looks pretty neat. Mine ended up being huge because I made almost everything from plates at-site and it didn't even have everything (and I later expanded it into specialized production for motors and so on).

I think it's a great game. Worth trying unless you're really offput by it for some reason. It plays a bit differently, but obviously there are a lot of similarities to Factorio. To me it seems clear the creators were very inspired by Satisfactory - whether you see that as good or bad - but it sort o...

I think these could all be viable and it's a concept I've been thinking about too. Research productivity and inventory size can be tricky to implement well, but the rest are pretty straightforward. I also thought about things like structure (wall?) HP, belt speed, but I never tried these since they ...

I would have a hard time saying the system's design is perfect, but it is good. Unless you exclude things like "diversify options." As for solar, I use it when I can't yet get PFR. If I can get PFR it is essentially always better. That is its whole design principle. Oh, on a related note f...

Crafting menu tabs I guess?

^ The only thing that makes acid pools worse is their poor visibility in terrain!

I alluded to this item (or was going to) in another discussion about armor grid size. The engineer is a very unique piece in the factory, and as part of the game balance and fun, he has to be given extra strengths. One concession on that front (a right one I think) is the inclusion of this no-mainte...

Here's a worse one: The belts move without any source of power.

It's just done that way to make the game more fun.

It would be super strong if it was bigger, almost certainly overpowered. Also, the player is supposed to be stronger than a spidertron in many ways. The engineer is by far most important thing in the factory so the higher tier equipment should match that design principle as well, and one aspect wher...

It's useful to know, if you are able to test, do any other games cause issues? Preferably test a variety of low-load and heavy-load games.

My main line of thinking is that if it's something general, it would probably be very apparent in other games and programs too.

There is , in fact, an extreme amount "going on behind the scenes to enhance the performance". If it wasn't there, you could probably not even reach 1k spm. Aside from further advanced optimizations, there is one method that has interested me: creating extremely costly but very UPS efficie...

If I understand you correctly, either have burner inserters feed the power if it's an issue with inserters not having power, have the backup power activate before the batteries run out, at like 2% or something, or have a separate battery or two for the inserters (more than doable with circuits and m...

+1 I thought about this for a while, and I do think it's something that's definitely a good idea. Simply put, it's too easy to accidentally undo something you worked on across the map that you already forgot about and then never be able to find it again (until you realize a facility and large parts ...

The logistics networks will only process up to a certain amount of tasks per tick. If you have hundreds and hundreds of tasks queued up, it'll both slow down the processing of assigning individual tasks, but also mean that not all tasks may get alerts. From what I know this is relatively well known ...

I, too, learned that if you don't have walls, even tiny gaps in turret coverage will cause enemies to slip through. I swear a gap as wide as just 5 tiles had enemies slip through... (for reference, this was with gun turrets.)

It's actually similar if you want to update entity settings remotely... most commonly for me, changing circuit conditions or splitters. Very cumbersome to do remotely. That does work with the temporary blueprint method above. It is just modules that are the exception. Wait, what exactly is the exce...

I'll +1 this because adding or changing modules at all with bots is a major pain to do remotely.

It's actually similar if you want to update entity settings remotely... most commonly for me, changing circuit conditions or splitters. Very cumbersome to do remotely.