Zeblote wrote:Your suggestions just make it completely useless.

no, actually, restricting use to trains is the only way (imo) that it would be a good idea.

Loaders are a big no from me! Yes, even fast inserters are not fast enough most of the time, but solutions to loading and unloading saturated belts are nevertheless pretty easy. Perhaps what is needed to condense these setups in late game is a kind of superfast inserter that does the same job as a r...

Not working in 12.17, it shows this error when loading/generating a map:

__DayNightExtender__/control.lua:11: attempt to index global 'game' (a nil value)

@Y.Petremann: Can the Better Vehicle Control mod (0.12.1) be updated to work with the latest release of Factorio to date (0.12.17)? When loading a save game in Factorio (0.12.17) the Better Vehicle Control mod gives the following error: __better-vehicle-control__/control.lua:66:attempt to index glo...

You assume the daylight comes from a sun but in fact, we can show that this is not the case by looking at the shadows of objects on the ground. If the light comes from a point source, then it must be infinitely far away because the angle of the shadows that it produces are always the same no matter ...

with any game people are going to look up and copy other people's setups. People do this virtually all the time in Factorio anyway. But some people will prefer not to do that, and make their own setup. It just depends on how they want to play, and what level of challenge they want to have. I fail to...

roman566 wrote:Which means that fusion is way more advanced than fission. Factorio HAS fusion reactors, why would player want to downgrade to fission?

Why do you think it's a downgrade?

Given that there were natural fission reactors on Earth and an efficient fusion reactor requires degree of sophistication we still did not achieve I fail to see how they could be considered the same tech level. There are also natural fusion reactors - stars. It is also worth noting that fusion powe...

MalcolmCooks wrote:Small yeild nuclear artillery shells would be awesome.

Devs are actually working on an artillery turret

I vote replacing the portable fusion reactor with a fission micropile

The option to use thorium fuel would be a good idea, but adding two new resource deposits just for nuclear power could be a bit much - perhaps they could both potentially be extracted from a single resource? There are minerals on earth that contain useful amounts of both thorium and uranium, so I do...

How rich do you have to set your deposits so that you don't need to expand into that mess until you can build a tank?

I concede my point, however. Small yeild nuclear artillery shells would be awesome.

nuclear weapons are weapons of extreme mass destructions. Even the smallest yeild nuclear weapons created, like, nukes the size of a watermelon, are just too powerful to be used against biter nests. They would have a lethal blast area almost as big as the entire scannable range of a radar. Is that r...

Does nuclear weaponry even have a place in factorio?

plastic bar production per second: 9 petroleum gas per 0.8 second: 7.2 petroleum gas platstic bar uses 3 petroleum gas (and 1 coal) to produce 2 plastic bars per 0.8 seconds (recipe has 1 seconds, but chemical plant has a crafting speed of 1.25) 2 chemical plants will be saturated 3 chemical plants...

Every time I do these calaculations I end up with a different answer... EDIT: I'm sticking with my original calculations: when cracking all the heavy and light oil down to petroleum, you should get a total of 9 petroleum from every cycle of the refinery. Advanced oil processing yeilds: 1 heavy oil 4...

I never do anything that requires power until I have my 15 boiler/10 steam engines running. I've watched LPs where people have a small 2-3 boiler 1 engine set up to do some rudimentary research, but I've never been able to "get" that. I set up a single steam engine so I can start using el...

The output of the pumpjacks will vary depending on the yeild of the oil patch, but they have a maximum output of 10 oil/s, so you could potentially run five refineries with a single pumpjack. Also: the 5:3 ratio requires you to crack all of your heavy and light oil into petroleum at the same rate th...

Oil cracking is done in chemical plants, not refineries (EDIT: I see you found oil cracking on your own while I was typing this up ;) ) As for your other problem, your ratios are incorrect - With advanced oil processing AND cracking all your light and heavy oil into petroleum, you still need FIVE re...

Solar power needs not to be nerfed. There are other ways to do it effectively and with high gain of game-value. For example: We need just to assume, that the planet we are speaking here is turning around a big gas-gigant (category Jupiter or maybe a brown dwarf). The resulting solar radiation is th...